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
17,562 approved · 2,577 refused · 1,027 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
School House Hill Road Littlehampton BN17 6DG
Received 10 Dec 20143 Nursery Cottages Barnham Lane Barnham PO22 0JJ
Received 7 Feb 201137 Woodlands Avenue Rustington BN16 3HB
Received 5 May 2010Sefter Farm Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3PX
Received 25 Oct 201728 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7DB
Received 1 Mar 202217 The Moorings Littlehampton BN17
Received 7 Feb 20221 The Estuary Littlehampton BN17 6NF
Received 21 Sept 2010Manor Cottage 2 West Preston Manor Rustington BN16 2AF
Received 2 Apr 2012Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd Unit C New Road Rustington BN16 3RT
Received 10 Apr 201443 Sea Lane East Preston BN16 1NE
Received 21 Feb 2019Southdown Nursery Old Mead Road Littlehampton BN17 7PU
Received 19 Feb 2020Aldworth House 91 The Fairway Aldwick PO21 4EW
Received 27 Apr 201293 Orchard Way Bognor Regis PO22 9JZ
Received 14 Jun 201257 Sea Lane Ferring West Sussex BN12 5DY
Received 31 Aug 201020 Cheviot Close East Preston
Received 5 May 20103 Arundel Road Poling BN18 9PW
Received 13 May 20155 Denham Close Bognor Regis PO22 7SJ
Received 2 Aug 2013Land adjacent to Sefter School House Sefter Road Pagham
Received 28 Apr 2022Snetterton West Walberton Lane Walberton BN18 0QS
Received 28 Jan 20216 Orchard Cottages Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3QW
Received 21 Aug 20099 Sark Gardens Ferring BN12 5QB
Received 13 Jan 2010South Bersted Garage Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9LN
Received 14 Aug 20181 St Nicholas Cottages The Street Houghton BN18 9LW
Received 23 Mar 2010West Walberton Farm West Walberton Lane Walberton BN18 0QH
Received 14 Aug 2014Records 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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