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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
17,600 approved · 2,582 refused · 1,029 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mill House Croft Station Road Angmering BN16 4HY
Received 30 Oct 2017The Retreat Hoe Lane Flansham PO22 8NT
Received 18 Mar 2011Verge outside 30 Wychwood Close Aldwick PO21 4DW
Received 13 Feb 2021Land at Lineside Industrial Estate Northwest of Unit 26 Eldon Way Littlehampton BN17 5LF
Received 10 Jun 2021The Locomotive Public House 5 Terminus Road Littlehampton BN17 5BS
Received 18 May 20121 Pigeonhouse Lane Rustington BN16 2AY
Received 21 Jul 202022 Gloucester Place Littlehampton BN17 7AF
Received 11 Mar 202111 Saxon Close East Preston BN16 1DX
Received 12 Jan 2015Adopted Grass verge Claigmar Road Rustington BN16 3NL
Received 12 Sept 2017Driftwood 91 Limmer Lane Felpham PO22 7LP
Received 8 Dec 202525 Kew Gardens Bognor Regis PO21 5RD
Received 10 Jan 2011Woodies Newsagents The Square Angmering BN16 4AE
Received 12 Jun 2020Long Furlong Barn Long Furlong Clapham BN13 3YN
Received 27 Jan 2012The Old Cottage 70 North Bersted Street Bersted PO22 9AE
Received 24 Oct 2025Copthorne Caravan Park Rose Green Road Bognor Regis PO21 3ER
Received 10 Apr 2017124 Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PL
Received 25 Mar 2013West Lodge Church Lane Eastergate PO20 3UX
Received 16 Jul 2014Shelley House Church Lane Eastergate PO20 3UR
Received 12 Aug 202110 Grafton Avenue Felpham PO22 6AR
Received 9 Feb 201074 The Fairway Aldwick PO21 4HE
Received 23 Jun 201553 Sunningdale Gardens Bognor Regis PO22 9LE
Received 2 Mar 201274-78 Ferring Street Ferring BN12 5JP
Received 18 Sept 201732 Andrew Close Rustington BN16 3QE
Received 12 Jan 2015Spinney Cottage Shripney Lane Shripney PO22 9NR
Received 23 Oct 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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