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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
14,535 approved · 2,034 refused · 854 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
19 Beaumont Park Littlehampton BN17 6PE
Received 20 Oct 2014HM Ford Prison Ford Road Ford BN18 0BX
Received 1 Sept 2017Old Barn Cottage 49 Sea Lane Rustington BN16 2RG
Received 26 Jun 2012Winterton Lodge Goda Road Littlehampton BN17 6SY
Received 27 Jan 2014Tile Barn Farm 32 Hill Lane Barnham PO22 0BL
Received 17 May 2021Counterpoint 52 Coastal Road East Preston BN16 1SN
Received 22 Oct 201331 Aldwick Avenue Bognor Regis PO22 9BB
Received 29 Sept 2015The White Swan Hotel Chichester Road Arundel BN18 0AD
Received 16 Feb 201215 Broadmark Way Rustington BN16 2EY
Received 24 Feb 2022Worthing Road Allotments Worthing Road Littlehampton BN17 6JQ
Received 4 Jan 2021Land East of Drove Lane Yapton BN18 0EB
Received 21 Sept 2021Land West of Hook Lane and South of Sefter Road Pagham
Received 27 Mar 202115 Kings Close Yapton BN18 0EX
Received 5 Jul 2021Willow Cottage Church Road Yapton BN18 0EW
Received 26 Jan 20225 Dryad Way Felpham PO22 7RQ
Received 20 Feb 2015Bairds Farm Shop, Garden Centre Crookthorn Lane Climping BN17 5SN
Received 29 Mar 2021Land West of Woodgate Nurseries and Lidsey Road (A29) Woodgate
Received 6 Aug 202615 Kingsmead Felpham PO22 7BD
Received 22 Nov 2017Former Gasholder Harwood Road Littlehampton BN17 7AU
Received 6 Oct 202619A River Road Arundel BN18 9EY
Received 5 Aug 20131 Merton Avenue Rustington BN16 2ED
Received 2 Jan 2014143 Roundstone Drive East Preston BN16 1EN
Received 17 Sept 20184 Lavender Close Middleton-On-Sea West Sussex PO22 6SP
Received 3 Jul 2020Hales Barn Farm Arundel Road Aldingbourne PO18 0JX
Received 3 Feb 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Arun District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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