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
16,890 approved · 2,440 refused · 996 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
205 Clun Road Littlehampton BN17 7ES
Received 22 Mar 2011Poultry Farm 87 Yapton Road Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6DY
Received 25 Nov 20195 Church Way Pagham PO21 4QL
Received 26 Apr 202286 Pagham Road Bognor Regis PO21 4NN
Received 17 Oct 2012Former Reception Building Arundel Equine Hospital Tortington Lane Arundel BN18 0GB
Received 25 Jul 20172 Second Avenue Felpham PO22 7LJ
Received 27 Jul 201826A Felpham Way Felpham PO22 8QT
Received 27 Jul 2015Springfields Chichester Road Bersted PO21 5EE
Received 23 Mar 2022Olivers Cottage 141 The Street Patching BN13 3XF
Received 1 Jun 2011Little Thatches 34 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TE
Received 7 May 2010The Wood Yard France Lane Patching
Received 3 Oct 200836 Apple Grove Aldwick PO21 4NB
Received 12 Sept 2017Rustington Hall Nursing Home Station Road Rustington BN16 3AY
Received 28 May 2019Parkside Flat Hotham Park House Hotham Park Bognor Regis PO21 1HW
Received 25 Jul 201261 Tennyson Avenue Rustington BN16 2PH
Received 14 Jul 2017126 Sea Road East Preston BN16 1NN
Received 14 Mar 2018Chanics 7 Pigeonhouse Lane Rustington BN16 2AY
Received 25 Feb 20151 Chaucer Avenue Rustington BN16 2PD
Received 24 Apr 201312 Peregrine Road Littlehampton BN17 6DT
Received 30 Sept 20114 Pinewood Gardens Bognor Regis PO21 2XB
Received 13 Dec 2019Laurel Rise and Grey Gables (former Plot 1) Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 3 Jun 202637 Orchard Road East Preston BN16 1RB
Received 17 Sept 2014Harvest Home Sack Lane Aldingbourne PO22 9PD
Received 25 Jun 201816 Woodlands Close Angmering BN16 4NA
Received 28 Sept 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage