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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
16,786 approved · 2,421 refused · 986 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
2 Elm Avenue East Preston BN16 1HJ
Received 12 Sept 2012Phase 5 Site 6 Land north of Felpham Bognor Regis PO22
Received 30 May 2013Woodgate Centre Oak Tree Lane Woodgate PO20 3GU
Received 24 Dec 202527 Countisbury Close Aldwick PO21 3QW
Received 12 Mar 2026Abbots Lawn Sylvan Way Bognor Regis PO21 2RS
Received 3 Mar 202016 Cardinals Drive Pagham PO21 4QF
Received 5 Dec 202147 Grosvenor Gardens Aldwick PO21 3EZ
Received 24 Oct 2017Herons Farm Dappers Lane Angmering BN16 4EN
Received 11 Mar 2011237 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis
Received 17 Nov 201033 Churchill Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 5QF
Received 30 Oct 2012Land on Hewarts Lane adjacent to 18 Coventry Close Aldwick
Received 13 Aug 2018Site 6 Chichester Road North Bersted
Received 17 Jan 2012St Philips Roman Catholic Primary School London Road Arundel BN18 9BA
Received 1 Jul 201525 The Drive Craigweil PO21 4DU
Received 27 Jan 2020Land at Bilsham Road Yapton
Received 9 Mar 202238 Hillview Crescent East Preston BN16 1RQ
Received 23 Mar 2022Walnut Tree Cottage Shripney Lane Bersted PO22 9NR
Received 28 Mar 20261 Quay House River Road Arundel BN18 9DF
Received 9 Sept 20145 The Old Slipway River Road Arundel BN18 9EY
Received 21 Mar 2020Land at Bilsham Road Yapton
Received 4 Apr 2022Sabey Court Albert Road Bognor Regis PO21 1LU
Received 16 Jun 2020Trevellas The Street Clapham BN13 3UU
Received 21 Sept 201110 Fittleworth Drive Felpham PO22 6QE
Received 14 Aug 201844 Sea Way Middleton on Sea PO22 7SA
Received 15 Nov 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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