Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
16,511 approved · 2,363 refused · 970 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22-24 Oakhurst Upper Bognor Road Bognor Regis PO21 1FW
Received 8 Aug 201944 Andrew Avenue Felpham PO22 7QD
Received 20 Sept 2013Land to the East of Fontwell Avenue Fontwell Avenue Fontwell
Received 28 May 2019The Old Bakehouse 27 King Street Arundel BN18 9BJ
Received 8 Oct 2012The Old School House 114 Felpham Road Felpham PO22 7P
Received 7 Mar 2011Clare House The Street Patching BN3 3XF
Received 14 Feb 2011235 Manor Way Aldwick Bay Aldwick PO21 4HT
Received 27 Sept 20173 Church Close Pagham PO21 4NT
Received 8 Nov 2017Land South of Summer Lane and West of Pagham Road Pagham
Received 11 Dec 2025Blocks 1-4 & 37-40 Bennett Gardens Ferring BN12 6PN
Received 4 Jul 2017Land North of 7-12 Joyce Close Littlehampton BN17 7JG
Received 23 Jul 2014Chota Ghur Outram Road Felpham PO22 7AL
Received 2 Jun 20267 Elm Drive Elmer Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6JD
Received 17 Jul 201536 Sea Drive Felpham PO22 7NB
Received 19 Sept 2019Flat 1 3 Park Road Bognor Regis PO21 2PX
Received 30 Sept 201373 Osprey Gardens Bersted PO22 9QQ
Received 10 Aug 20262-10 The Hatters Inn Queensway Bognor Regis PO21 1QT
Received 4 Jan 20221A Jubilee Avenue Rustington BN16 3NF
Received 2 Jul 2015226 Manor Way Aldwick PO21 4HS
Received 21 Jan 2013132 Middleton Road Middleton PO22 6DB
Received 19 Jun 2026Land To East Of Fontwell Racecourse Fontwell Avenue Eastergate BN18 0SW
Received 8 Jul 20211 Aldwick Gardens Aldwick PO21 3QT
Received 21 Feb 2020Shripney Road grass verge near Wiley's car park Bognor Regis
Received 21 May 2026Land at Boweries Barnham Road Eastergate PO20 3RT
Received 13 Jun 2018Records 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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