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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
15,775 approved · 2,236 refused · 930 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10 Regents Way West Mead Bognor Regis PO21 5QN
Received 10 Apr 2018Mapsons Lidsey Road Bognor Regis PO22 9PQ
Received 24 Sept 201419 Highdown Way Ferring BN12 6QQ
Received 20 Mar 202113 Sussex Street Littlehampton BN17 6JD
Received 5 Jul 20178 Newhall Close Bognor Regis PO21 5RG
Received 1 Nov 2017Land East of Toll Cottage Lake Lane Barnham PO22 0AD
Received 13 Dec 201643 Pevensey Road Bognor Regis PO21 5NY
Received 10 Feb 2021Blakeney Cottage Sylvan Way Bognor Regis PO21 2RS
Received 1 Apr 201924 Cove Road Rustington BN16 2QW
Received 1 Aug 2018Sefter Farm Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3PX
Received 5 Oct 201716 Fourteen Acre Avenue Felpham PO22 8GH
Received 18 Oct 2012Land at Oldlands Farm Newlands Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 6 Aug 2025Fairmead Farm Binsted Lane Arundel BN18 0LQ
Received 26 Aug 201612 St Marys Gardens Littlehampton BN17 5QA
Received 10 Nov 2021Old Forge House Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4JZ
Received 20 Jan 201151 Pigeonhouse Lane Rustington BN16 2BG
Received 3 Aug 202690 Ancton Way Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6JR
Received 29 Nov 201122 A'Beckets Avenue Aldwick Bay Estate PO21 4LX
Received 26 Jul 2018Tall Trees High Street Angmering BN16 4AW
Received 28 Jun 2020Conifers The Thatchway Rustington BN16 2BN
Received 28 Feb 2013Easter Cottage Aldwick Street Aldwick PO21 3AW
Received 27 Aug 2013At gated entrance to Colts Bay Aldwick PO21 4EH
Received 22 Jul 2019Tamarisk House 5 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TF
Received 6 Sept 2018Land north of Spode Cottage & West of Greenings & South of Fontwell Cottages Eastergate Lane Fontwell PO203AA
Received 22 Jun 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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