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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
17,161 approved · 2,493 refused · 1,006 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Manor Barn 137 Old Manor Road Rustington BN16 3PX
Received 21 Oct 201119 East Mead Pagham PO21 4QT
Received 11 Feb 2010Lamb Inn The Square Angmering Littlehampton BN16 4EQ
Received 1 Nov 2012Keepers Cottage 221 Warningcamp Arundel BN18 9QZ
Received 16 Dec 20095 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7BY
Received 17 May 201911 Michel Grove East Preston BN16 2SX
Received 19 Dec 2018Flat 3 27 Princess Avenue Aldwick PO21 2FE
Received 25 Nov 2013Bonhams Field Main Road Yapton BN18 0DX
Received 23 Dec 2020Tall Trees High Street Angmering BN16 4AW
Received 24 Aug 2010Land South of Summer Lane & West of Pagham Road Pagham
Received 27 May 202111 Meadow Way Littlehampton BN17 6BL
Received 17 Jun 2011Pandora Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JU
Received 17 May 2021Crete House The Beeches Dappers Lane Angmering BN16 4EN
Received 21 Dec 2021Bairds Farm Shop Crookthorn Lane Climping BN17 5SN
Received 3 Jun 2021Pilgrim Cottage Dairy Lane Walberton BN18 0PT
Received 21 Jun 202027 Belle Meade Close Woodgate Aldingbourne PO20 3YD
Received 7 Mar 2019Rear of 59 Elm Grove Barnham PO22 0HJ
Received 18 Dec 2014First Floor Flat 9 Ocean Parade Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5QG
Received 18 Sept 201858 East Front Road Pagham PO21 4ST
Received 5 Sept 201314 Crescenta Walk Bognor Regis PO21 2XS
Received 5 Dec 20139 Meadow Way Aldwick PO21 4HG
Received 6 Dec 20193 Clifton Road Bognor Regis PO21 2HH
Received 9 Aug 201850A Annandale Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2EX
Received 14 Apr 2019Beachcroft 16A The Nookery East Preston BN16 1PT
Received 22 Nov 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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