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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
15,582 approved · 2,203 refused · 918 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
1 Barbary Lane Ferring BN12 5JB
Received 14 May 20201 Shipfield Aldwick PO21 4AE
Received 28 Jan 2026Furzefield Scout campsite Dappers Lane Angmering BN16 4EN
Received 5 Apr 2022St Margarets Church Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4JS
Received 3 Oct 2014The Old Mill River Road Arundel BN18 9JR
Received 23 Feb 2012Phase 5A Site 6 Land North of Felpham Bognor Regis PO22
Received 18 Dec 2013Old Vicarage Cottage Lyminster Road Lyminster BN17 7QF
Received 20 May 20137 George IV Walk Bognor Regis PO22 8HJ
Received 29 May 201218 Elm Park Ferring BN12 5RW
Received 26 Nov 2012Land at Oldlands Farm Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 3 Oct 2014Yew Tree Cottage 11 Ferring Street Ferring BN12 5HL
Received 21 Jan 2019Brambleside The Thatchway Angmering BN16 4HJ
Received 29 Nov 201716 Howard Road Arundel BN18 9EL
Received 3 Mar 202013 Fitzalan Road Littlehampton BN17 5JR
Received 15 Oct 2014Church of St Peter & St Paul The Street Rustington BN16 3NR
Received 7 Apr 20148 Blackberry Copse Felpham PO22 8GP
Received 3 May 2019Friends Meeting House 23 Church Street Littlehampton BN17 5EL
Received 8 May 2017177 Middleton Road Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6DF
Received 8 Apr 202133 West Front Road Pagham PO21 4SZ
Received 17 Jul 202671 & 71A High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RZ
Received 19 Feb 201339 East Drive Angmering BN16 4JH
Received 1 Mar 2021Former Office, Highground Orchards, Highground Lane Barnham PO22 0BT
Received 26 Apr 2019Kingston Rocks 53 Coastal Road Kingston BN16 1SN
Received 7 Aug 2015Back Arun Fishery North of Arundel Station Arundel
Received 2 Jun 2026Records 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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