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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
16,280 approved · 2,324 refused · 959 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
45 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BU
Received 2 Oct 20189 Guernsey Road Ferring BN12 5PN
Received 26 Jan 201552 St. Marys Close Littlehampton BN17 5QQ
Received 23 Apr 20141 The Tideway Littlehampton BN17 6PP
Received 4 Jan 20121 Church Farm Cottages Horsemere Green Lane Climping BN17 5QX
Received 19 May 2014Gladwin The Avenals Angmering Littlehampton BN16 4AN
Received 4 Nov 201315 Keble Close West Meads Bognor Regis PO21 5SD
Received 23 May 2017Middle Barn The Street East Preston BN16 1JD
Received 13 May 201422 Beach Road Littlehampton BN17 5HT
Received 15 Feb 2017Acorns Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4ET
Received 19 Mar 20219 Horsham Road West Littlehampton BN17 6DL
Received 24 Nov 2025Rear of 42 Sudley Road Bognor Regis PO21 1ES
Received 14 Oct 202619 Sea Lane MIddleton PO22 7RX
Received 26 Apr 201913 Chaucer Avenue Rustington BN16 2PD
Received 1 Apr 201948 Langbury Lane Ferring BN12 6QA
Received 21 Jun 2018Land to the North & East of St Marys Church Yapton
Received 19 Nov 201321 Greystone Avenue Bersted PO21 5EA
Received 21 Dec 20216 & 7 Courtwick Park Cottages Courtwick Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PD
Received 23 Jun 2017West Beach Cafe Rope Walk Littlehampton BN17 5DE
Received 31 Oct 20116 Falklands Close Bognor Regis PO22 9SR
Received 10 Feb 2020Littlehampton Academy Hill Road Littlehampton BN17 6DQ
Received 12 Aug 201059 Bayford Road Littlehampton BN17 5HN
Received 7 Mar 20131 Moraunt Drive Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6RY
Received 2 Feb 20127 Mount Pleasant Arundel BN18 9BD
Received 27 Nov 2012Records 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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