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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
16,890 approved · 2,440 refused · 996 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Received 4 Aug 2009Central Wetland Area Land North of Toddington Lane Littlehampton
Received 27 Jan 2026Church House Church Lane Yapton BN18 0EH
Received 18 Jul 201131 Steep Lane Findon BN14 9UE
Received 18 Jun 2010Manor House 12 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5BP
Received 22 Oct 2013Willowhayne Estate Entrance Gates The Ridings, Tamarisk Way and Angmering Lane East Preston
Received 14 Dec 2011Mole Corner Poling street Poling West Sussex BN18 9PU
Received 7 Oct 20254 Peterhouse Close Westmeads PO21 5RZ
Received 29 Jul 2014Long Meadow Dukes Road Fontwell BN18 0SP
Received 8 Oct 20102 Seventeen Manor Road East Preston BN16 1FG
Received 13 Aug 2013Land at Nyton Rd & Northfields Lane, Westergate & land off Fontwell Lane, Eastergate
Received 7 Mar 20181 Alexander Avenue Angmering BN16 4PQ
Received 29 Sept 202515 Lawrence Avenue Rustington BN16 3HU
Received 10 Apr 201472 Worthing Road Rustington BN16 3LL
Received 11 Aug 201514 Jervis Avenue Rustington BN16 2AU
Received 25 Apr 2017Land South of Summer Lane and West of Pagham Road Pagham
Received 9 Oct 2025Woodgate Centre Oak Tree Lane Woodgate PO203GU
Received 8 Dec 20253 Inglewood Drive Aldwick PO21 4JX
Received 24 Feb 2026University of Chichester Dome House Upper Bognor Road Bognor Regis PO21 1HR
Received 30 May 201256 Aldwick Felds Aldwick PO21 3TT
Received 12 May 2017Land South Of Cornfield Close Littlehampton BN17 6LD
Received 23 Oct 2019Thomas Cottage 104 The Splash Wepham BN18 9RG
Received 14 Dec 201037 Kingsway Bognor Regis PO21 4DH
Received 11 Nov 2014Land North of Hook Lane Pagham Road PO21 3PD
Received 23 Feb 2022Records 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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