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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
16,934 approved · 2,452 refused · 997 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Holland Close Bersted PO21 5TW
Received 19 Feb 2021St Marys Close Hurst Road Rustington BN16 3AP
Received 15 Jul 201959 Mansfield Road Bognor Regis PO22 9HA
Received 31 Aug 20184 Seabrook Close Aldwick PO21 3UT
Received 27 Jul 201525 Windward Close Littlehampton BN17 6QX
Received 17 Oct 2019Sea Mist 15 Waters Edge Aldwick PO21 4AW
Received 19 Aug 201412 Willowhayne Avenue East Preston BN16 1PC
Received 10 May 2019Bus Shelter Outside Lloyds Bank 33 - 37 High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RS
Received 5 Oct 2018Site 6 Felpham PO22
Received 9 Sept 20152 Broadmark Way Rustington BN16 2EY
Received 9 Jul 201879 St Marys Close Littlehampton BN17 5QQ
Received 8 Jul 2010Land at Courtwick Lane Littlehampton
Received 2 Jul 202152 North Street Littlehampton BN17 6JH
Received 30 Sept 2019Maytree Cottage 1 Church Lane Ferring BN12 5HN
Received 7 Jul 201112 Silverdale Close Pagham PO21 4XF
Received 19 Apr 2019Land at Oldlands Way Bognor Regis PO22 9SA
Received 20 Jul 201290 Rose Green Road Aldwich PO21 3EQ
Received 14 May 2019Manor Nursery High Street Angmering BN16 4AW
Received 10 Jun 202038 Sudley Road Bognor Regis PO21 1ER
Received 31 Aug 2010Strange Garden House Strange Gardens Estate Bognor Regis PO21 4AL
Received 15 Dec 201129 Vermont Drive East Preston BN16 1LG
Received 3 Aug 2020Saltram Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JB
Received 3 Jan 2012Rose Cottage Church Road Yapton BN18 0EW
Received 5 Jan 2021BCMY 1 Fort Road Wick Littlehampton BN17 7QU
Received 9 Jul 2026Records 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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