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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
17,215 approved · 2,503 refused · 1,009 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 The Causeway Pagham PO21 4PG
Received 8 Jan 202018 Sea Lane Pagham PO21 4UL
Received 30 May 202225A Central Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 5HT
Received 15 Oct 2014The Piggery Hobbs Court Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JY
Received 21 Jul 2015The Pagham Club 2 West Front Road Pagham PO21 4SY
Received 20 Apr 20219 Regis Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 4HQ
Received 28 Oct 201011 Lidsey Road Woodgate Chichester PO20 3SU
Received 20 Apr 2017Former LEC Site Shripney Way Bognor Regis PO22 9NQ
Received 24 Aug 2012The Barnham Hotel 28 Barnham Road Barnham PO22 0ES
Received 11 Jul 20148 Rodney Crescent Ford BN18 0DB
Received 29 Jun 201513 Newtown Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 5HS
Received 3 Feb 202241 Sea Lane Gardens Ferring
Received 9 Nov 2011Nyton Stables Nyton Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TU
Received 5 Sept 2013253 Church Lane Lyminster BN17 7QJ
Received 8 Mar 2019Site 6 Chichester Road Bersted
Received 11 Aug 2011Woodhatch Clapham Common Clapham BN13 3UR
Received 12 Aug 2010Land West of Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 19 Oct 2018Unit 4 Oldlands Way Bognor Regis PO22 9SA
Received 20 Mar 2014Flat B 47 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7BY
Received 4 Jul 2019398 Chichester Road Bersted PO21 5DR
Received 6 Jan 2020Land South of Summer Lane and West of Pagham Road and West of Pagham Road Pagham
Received 8 Nov 2021Pinehurst West Drive Angmering BN16 4NL
Received 27 Nov 201224 Harbour Road Pagham PO21 4TG
Received 25 Nov 2025Garages to plots 11 & 12 Lansdowne Cottages Willow Wood Close Angmering BN16 4BA
Received 15 Feb 2013Records 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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