Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
17,433 approved · 2,548 refused · 1,020 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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 West Drive Aldwick PO21 4LZ
Received 4 Mar 202682 Victoria Drive Bognor Regis PO21 2TA
Received 23 May 20224 Beechlands Close & land rear of 18 Montpelier Road East Preston BN16 1JZ
Received 23 Sept 202018 Durban Road Bognor Regis PO22 9QT
Received 21 Sept 2011Land east of 22 Speedwell Chase Angmering
Received 16 Apr 2026109a Felpham Way Felpham PO22 9PE
Received 22 Sept 201520 Bridorley Close Pagham PO21 3NP
Received 7 Jun 2020Ashmead Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 17 Apr 2019Thatched Cottage Hoe Lane Binsted BN18 0LQ
Received 10 Feb 201046 Lane End Road Ancton Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6LT
Received 24 Jun 20151 Field Cottages Church Lane Barnham PO22 0BX
Received 6 Aug 2014Summerley Corner (South Side) Limmer Lane/Summerley Lane Felpham PO21 7HX
Received 17 Dec 20122 Pulborough Way Flansham Felpham PO22 6QR
Received 9 Nov 2012107 Felpham Way Felpham PO22 8QB
Received 1 Oct 2020Land at Ivy Cottage Nursery 42 Flansham Lane Felpham PO22 6AG
Received 18 Oct 20128 West Close Middleton-On-Sea PO22 7RP
Received 17 Mar 2021The Gospel Hall Nyton Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TX
Received 6 Apr 20182 Iris Close Littlehampton BN17 6UZ
Received 17 Feb 202186 Sea Avenue Rustington BN16 2DL
Received 14 Apr 2014Home Farm House 63 Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5LL
Received 21 Jan 2012Parsonage Farm, Unit 2 Yapton Road Barnham PO22 0BD
Received 29 Apr 2021Gallic House 9 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TF
Received 30 Apr 2013Blackberry House Berry Lane North Bersted PO22 9FG
Received 3 Nov 2011Blue Haze 37 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DT
Received 23 Sept 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage