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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
16,190 approved · 2,309 refused · 954 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 West Walberton Lane Walberton BN18 0QF
Received 21 Apr 202124 Felpham Road Bognor Regis PO22 7AZ
Received 29 Sept 2014Phase 3 Hampton Park Toddington Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PL
Received 17 Nov 2021Shripney Manor Shripney Lane Bognor Regis PO22 9NU
Received 21 Mar 2019Yarmer Barn, The Vinery Arundel Road Poling BN18 9PY
Received 30 Sept 201027 North Bersted Street Bersted PO22 9AA
Received 16 Aug 2017Courtwick Lane Land South of Railway Littlehampton
Received 12 Feb 2019Roslyn 3B Parklands Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2BA
Received 7 Nov 2020115-117 Sea Road East Preston BN16 1NX
Received 21 Feb 2011Nutwood 5 Selhurst Close East Preston BN16 2SR
Received 11 Jan 2021Land Adj. 37 The Croft Bognor Regis PO21 5TH
Received 26 Jul 20113 Gloucester Place Littlehampton BN17 7AE
Received 5 Dec 2014The Bungalow Newlands Nursery Pagham PO20 1LL
Received 23 Aug 201764 Wroxham Way Felpham PO22 8EA
Received 1 Aug 201132 Griffin Crescent Littlehampton BN17 7LJ
Received 8 May 20172 Sidlaw Terrace Clarence Road Bognor Regis PO21 1JY
Received 25 Sept 2013Bairds Farm Shop Crookthorne Lane Climping BN17 5SN
Received 5 Oct 2018St Margarets Court Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4NQ
Received 8 Aug 2017Highdown Farm Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PG
Received 11 Feb 2011Sandringham Wessex Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2QW
Received 2 Jun 201123 Seaview Road East Preston BN16 1LX
Received 21 Jul 2021Wicks Farm, South Yard B Ford Lane Ford BN18 0DF
Received 29 Jan 201943 Cumberland Road Angmering BN16 4BJ
Received 3 Jun 2019Units 1-5 Castlegrove Business Park Durban Road Bognor Regis PO22 9QT
Received 14 Aug 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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