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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16,786 approved · 2,421 refused · 986 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Connaught Road Littlehampton BN17 6ER
Received 29 Apr 201021 Finches Close Littlehampton BN17 7GU
Received 30 Nov 20209 Chawkmare Coppice Bognor Regis PO21 3BU
Received 15 Jan 201825 Colindale Road North Ferring BN12 5LB
Received 22 Oct 202118 Mill Lane Wick Littlehampton
Received 10 Feb 2011Land to the Rear of Burndell Road Yapton BN18 0HR
Received 7 Mar 201419 Meadow Court Priestley Way Bognor Regis PO22 6RP
Received 12 Jun 20172a Blakes Road Felpham PO22 7EB
Received 11 Feb 2014Travis Perkins Trading Co Ltd The Causeway Arundel BN18 9JL
Received 13 Apr 2010St Anthonys C Church 61 Gossamer Lane Bognor Regis PO21 1LP
Received 29 Sept 2011Courtwick Lane Land South of Railway Littlehampton
Received 28 May 201431 Cissbury Road Ferring BN12 6QL
Received 30 Jul 202014 Weavers Ring Angmering BN16 4AJ
Received 13 Nov 201791 Wick Farm Road Littlehampton BN17 7HJ
Received 2 Jul 202546 Lane End Road Ancton Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6LT
Received 13 Mar 20158 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DU
Received 2 Mar 201811 Larchfield Close Aldwick PO21 4RB
Received 27 Jan 201451 Westminter Drive Bognor Regis PO21 3RE
Received 7 Oct 2019Land rear of Flint House Church Lane Eastergate PO20 3UR
Received 22 Aug 2011Sports Pavilion Lashmar Road East Preston BN16 1EZ
Received 13 Feb 2018Ground Floor Rear Flat 1b 148 Aldwick Road Bognor Regis PO21 2PA
Received 9 Jan 2019Vincent House 75 Highfield Road Bognor Regis PO22 8PD
Received 16 Sept 2021Park View Church Lane Ferring
Received 2 Jul 2026South Eastern Corner of Church and grounds St Mary's Church Station Road/Vicarage Lane East Preston BN16
Received 9 Aug 2011Records 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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