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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
16,718 approved · 2,413 refused · 986 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Arun Retail Park Unit D (Comet) Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NF
Received 21 Aug 201412 Penfolds Place Arundel West Sussex BN18 9SA
Received 8 Sept 2010Episkopi Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 31 Jul 201929 Pier Road Littlehampton BN17 5LW
Received 22 May 20209a Canada Road Arundel BN18 9HZ
Received 17 Mar 2011Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, Unit C New Road Rustington Littlehampton BN16 3RT
Received 8 Oct 201314 Orchard Place Arundel BN18 9BP
Received 28 May 201421 New Road Littlehampton BN17 5AX
Received 4 Apr 2022Various verges within Kingsway Bognor Regis PO21 4DH
Received 1 Nov 201382 Burpham The Street Burpham BN18 9RR
Received 19 Oct 2010Kings Lodge 1 Kingsway Craigweil PO21 4DQ
Received 8 Mar 2011Lample House Wepham BN18 9RA
Received 21 Jul 201134 Kingsway Aldwick Bognor Regis PO21 4DH
Received 8 Apr 20202 Litle Babbsham Aldwick PO21 3SZ
Received 31 Mar 2021East Preston Depot Station Road East Preston BN16 3RE
Received 22 Mar 20132 Countisbury Close Aldwick PO21 3QW
Received 15 May 2017Beach Road Dental Care 32 Beach Road Littlehampton BN17 5HT
Received 28 Nov 201268-70 Rose Green Road Aldwick PO21 3EQ
Received 11 Jun 2021Former Coastguard Tower The Promenade Littlehampton BN17 5LH
Received 19 Mar 201264 South Terrace Littlehampton BN17 5LG
Received 14 Jan 2019Church Barton House Horns Lane Pagham PO21 4NZ
Received 1 Oct 2025The Chapel, Flat 1 Barton Manor Barton Close Pagham PO21 4FH
Received 3 Nov 20175 Hobbs Court, The Potting Barn Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JY
Received 1 Oct 201919 Botany Close Rustington BN16 2BJ
Received 25 May 2021Records 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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