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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
17,293 approved · 2,517 refused · 1,012 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Kingsway Craigweil PO21 4DQ
Received 23 Oct 2018191 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 4NJ
Received 12 Feb 2018East Kingston House Kingston Lane East Preston BN16 1RS
Received 23 Sept 20215-7 Station Road Bognor Regis PO21 1QB
Received 12 Oct 20172 The Street East Preston BN16 1JJ
Received 17 Feb 202130 Lucking Lane Middleton on Sea PO22 6HR
Received 16 Jun 201019 Gossamer Lane Aldwick PO21 3AT
Received 8 Apr 20202 Empress Gardens Barnham PO22 0FS
Received 29 Jun 20261 & 3 Fellows Gardens Yapton BN18 0HW
Received 18 Jul 201860 Barrack Lane Aldwick
Received 29 Nov 201761 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BQ
Received 28 Sept 2018Willow Court 52-58 Woodlands Avenue Rustington BN16 3EY
Received 9 Aug 20171 Ormesby Crescent Felpham PO22 8EN
Received 23 Feb 202190 Felpham Road Bognor Regis PO22 7PD
Received 11 Oct 201212 Wadhurst Close Bognor Regis PO21 5LD
Received 5 Sept 20111 Pound Way Angmering BN16 4GZ
Received 23 Jun 20142 The Cornfields Aldingbourne PO20 3WH
Received 20 Mar 201811 Abbottsbury Pagham PO21 4RX
Received 11 Aug 2015Beach adj Bognor Regis Yacht Club Victoria Road South Bognor Regis PO21 2NA
Received 1 Nov 201332 Tennyson Avenue Rustington BN16 2PH
Received 22 Jan 2013Land Rear Of 1 To 6 The Cottrells Angmering BN16 4AF
Received 23 Nov 201879 Clun Road Littlehampton BN17 7EG
Received 10 Jul 2018Magnolia Cottage Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RZ
Received 1 Apr 2022Units G14 & G15 Rudford Industrial Estate Ford Road Ford BN18 0BD
Received 23 Nov 2017Records 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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