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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
16,147 approved · 2,304 refused · 949 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 at former Kings Beach Hotel 5 The Parade Bognor Regis PO21 4TW
Received 5 Jan 2018Land to South of Old Mead House Old Mead Road Littlehampton BN17 7PU
Received 19 Jan 201869 High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RY
Received 6 Sept 2017Ilex Cottage The Street Burpham BN18 9RJ
Received 8 Nov 2010The Wilkes Head Church Lane Eastergate PO20 3UT
Received 15 Aug 201771 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BQ
Received 18 Mar 2015April Cottage Main Road Yapton BN18 0EY
Received 18 Jun 20187 The Crescent Felpham
Received 7 Nov 2011Shelley House Church Lane Eastergate PO20 3UP
Received 20 Aug 2013Spinnakers 59 Coastal Road Kingston BN16 1SW
Received 20 May 2021Blue Cedars 1 Blue Cedars Close Angmering BN16 4DW
Received 15 Apr 202119 The Fairway Aldwick Bay Estate Aldwick PO21 4ES
Received 17 Aug 2015The White Hart Public House 32 Surrey Street Littlehampton BN17 5BH
Received 29 Jul 2015Medowsley Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3QS
Received 29 Aug 201420 Flansham Lane Felpham PO22 6AB
Received 13 Sept 2019Former Waitrose Site Avon Road Littlehampton BN17 6AT
Received 26 Jan 202617 Amberley Road Rustington BN16 2EF
Received 30 Nov 2020The Dower House Church Lane Walberton BN18 OUD
Received 10 Sept 2013Unit J1, J2, U1 & Z, Rudford Industrial Estate Ford Road Ford BN18 0BF
Received 10 Apr 201830 Andrew Avenue Felpham PO22 7QQ
Received 10 Apr 201843 Cambridge Drive Bognor Regis PO21 1EQ
Received 2 Dec 201314 Ivydale Road Bognor Regis PO21 5LY
Received 21 Jan 20117 Lloyd Goring Close Angmering BN16 4LG
Received 4 Jan 201880 Lavinia Way East Preston West Sussex BN16 1DD
Received 16 Dec 2019Records 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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