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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
15,834 approved · 2,248 refused · 935 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to South of Downs Way and North of 15 & 34 Ambersham Crescent Angmering BN16 1AA
Received 13 Nov 20201 Rosemead Littlehampton BN17 6UH
Received 3 Feb 202161 Palmer Road Angmering BN16 4LJ
Received 27 Sept 2019Land South of Hearnfield Road Littlehampton
Received 27 May 2011Old Bank House 3 High Street Arundel BN18 9AD
Received 6 Jan 2022Lamb Inn Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JN
Received 22 Jul 2015Church Farm Cottage 76-78 The Street Rustington BN16 3NR
Received 19 Mar 20191 Ash Lane Rustington BN16 3BU
Received 22 Feb 2017Site 6 Land North of Felpham Bognor PO22
Received 2 Jul 2012Corner Cottage 14 Central Avenue Rustington BN16 2HG
Received 5 Mar 202024 Lavinia Way East Preston BN16 1EF
Received 4 Jul 20183 Willow Way Bognor Regis PO21 4NA
Received 8 Apr 2011103 Griffin Crescent Littlehampton BN17 7LH
Received 31 Jan 202210 St. Catherines Road Littlehampton BN17 5HS
Received 16 Jul 201514 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BU
Received 17 Dec 2013Littlehampton Golf Club Rope Walk West Sussex BN17 5DL
Received 16 Oct 20171 Normandy Lane East Preston BN16 1LZ
Received 6 Oct 2011Rookery Farm Barn Rookery farm Hoe Lane Flansham Lane PO22 6EP
Received 18 Jun 2019Land off Hook Lane Hook Lane Westergate PO20 3TE
Received 1 Feb 201754 A & B Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 2XJ
Received 19 Apr 2017Turnpike Motors The Street Walberton BN18 0PG
Received 8 Apr 2014Quince Cottage Church Lane Barnham PO22 0DG
Received 15 Aug 2014Glebe Gate 19 Ferring Street Ferring BN12 5HL
Received 30 Jan 2018Medowsley Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3QS
Received 5 Jul 2018Records 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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