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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
17,666 approved · 2,587 refused · 1,030 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
55-57 High Street Arundel BN18 9AJ
Received 25 Nov 2011Tesco Express 16 Finisterre Way Littlehampton BN17 6RA
Received 4 Apr 2017First Floor 20 Churchill Parade The Street Rustington BN16 3DE
Received 15 Jun 20208 Hook Lane Rose Green Bognor Regis PO21 3NY
Received 16 Sept 2014Highway verge at Pagham Road Pagham
Received 9 Dec 2013Unit 1 Lineside Way Lineside Industrial Estate Littlehampton BN17 7EH
Received 8 May 20144 Preston Avenue Rustington BN16 2DB
Received 17 May 2020Land West of New Barn Lane North Bersted PO21 5DN
Received 16 Apr 2021New House Farm Norton Lane Aldingbourne PO20 3NH
Received 9 Nov 2009Letterbox Cottage Norton Lane Aldingbourne PO20 3NH
Received 18 Jun 2013Land adjacent to no. 36 Rodney Crescent Ford BN18 0BL
Received 2 Sept 2010Old Hundred Sack Lane Lidsey PO22 9PE
Received 15 Dec 2021Longacre Maypole Lane Yapton BN18 0DR
Received 6 May 2022Merrivale Station Road Angmering BN16 4HY
Received 9 Apr 2015Eugenie Eastergate Lane Walberton BN18 0BA
Received 5 Oct 2020140 Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PH
Received 11 Sept 20136 Central Avenue Rustington Littlehampton BN16 2HG
Received 14 Aug 2009Rose Cottage Church Road Yapton BN18 0EW
Received 18 Oct 2020Bramblebank Level Mare Lane Eastergate PO20 3SA
Received 9 Feb 2010Lees Yard Lidsey Road Woodgate Chichester PO20 3SU
Received 4 Oct 2012Aldwick House Care Home 41-45 Nyewood Lane Bognor Regis PO21 2SJ
Received 31 Mar 20204 Felpham Road Felpham
Received 1 Dec 2010106 Felpham Road Felpham PO22 7PL
Received 20 Jun 2018Land at Lineside Industrial Estate Northwest of Unit 26 Eldon Way Littlehampton BN17 7HE
Received 8 Nov 2021Records 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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