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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Arun website
15,468 approved · 2,182 refused · 912 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Dyers Croft Main Road Yapton BN18 0EA
Received 8 Dec 2017Castleview Nursery Old Mead Road Littlehampton BN17 7PU
Received 21 Dec 2017Land south of A259 and west of Mill Lane, Rustington Parish of Angmering
Received 11 Sept 2015Land at Wicks Farm Ford Lane Ford BN18 0DG
Received 4 Jan 20193 Lake View Pagham PO21 4QP
Received 27 Sept 2013Oak Lawn Greystoke Road Ferring BN12 5JL
Received 28 Jun 2012Land At Angels Nursery Yapton Road Barnham PO22 0AY
Received 24 Sept 202130 Ormesby Crescent Felpham PO22 8EN
Received 3 Feb 202249 Johnson Way Ford BN18 0TS
Received 29 Jul 201939 Pevensey Road Bognor Regis PO21 5NS
Received 16 Jul 2021Land East of The Croft Surgery Barnham Road Eastergate PO20 3RP
Received 30 Jan 2026Nyton House Nyton Road Westergate PO20 3UL
Received 3 May 2022Land to rear of 31 Meadow Way Westergate Aldingbourne PO20 3QT
Received 30 May 2011Medowsley Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3QS
Received 22 Jan 201724 Queen Street Arundel BN18 9JG
Received 3 Aug 2011135 Westminster Drive Aldwick PO21 3RZ
Received 5 Mar 202221 Middleton Road Felpham PO22 6BL
Received 3 Aug 202014 Bridorley Close Pagham PO21 3NP
Received 10 Sept 2020Asda Littlehampton Road Ferring
Received 9 Oct 201825 Cissbury Road Ferring BN12 6QL
Received 31 Oct 2018Unit H21 Rudford Industrial Estate Climping BN17 5QX
Received 24 Nov 201720 Glynde Crescent Felpham PO22 8HT
Received 22 May 2015Acorns Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4ET
Received 27 Aug 2013McColls 1A Avisford Terrace Rose Green Road Aldwick PO21 3EX
Received 16 Feb 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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