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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
17,781 approved · 2,603 refused · 1,039 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of Cornfield Close Littlehampton BN17 6LD
Received 6 May 202041 Gossamer Lane Aldwick PO21 3BX
Received 15 Feb 202137 Golden Avenue East Preston Kingston BN16 1QY
Received 16 Sept 201517 Outerwyke Road Felpham PO22 8HX
Received 16 Sept 20203 Normandy Drive East Preston BN16 1LT
Received 16 May 2022Land adjacent of 14 St Johns Close Westergate Aldingbourne PO20 3TH
Received 3 Nov 20169 Elmcroft Place Aldingbourne PO20 3XL
Received 5 May 201517 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DU
Received 20 Apr 2012The Old House 37 East Street Littlehampton BN17 6AU
Received 18 Aug 2009Ancton Barn Ancton Lane Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6NJ
Received 23 Jul 202140 Wick Street Littlehampton BN17 7JH
Received 15 Apr 20132 Lodge Court Aldwick PO21 4XP
Received 6 Apr 202114 Scott Street Bognor Regis
Received 5 Apr 2011Fortunes Gate 1 First Avenue, Ancton Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6ED
Received 12 Feb 20155 Hardy Close Felpham PO22 6QX
Received 5 May 202614B Sea Way Middleton on Sea PO22 7SA
Received 16 Jan 2018Somerfield Stores Broadmark Parade Rustington BN16 2NE
Received 19 Sept 201138 Rosemead Littlehampton BN17 6UH
Received 12 Aug 2010Parkside Farm Shripney Lane Bersted PO22 9NR
Received 14 Mar 20112 Sea Way Middleton-On-Sea PO22 7SA
Received 20 Oct 2021Newburgh School Lane Arundel BN18 9DR
Received 31 Mar 2022426 Chichester Road Bersted PO21 5DR
Received 11 Dec 2019Little Drewston Canons Close Bognor Regis PO21 4EB
Received 12 Feb 2015Wooton House School Hill Slindon BN18 0RS
Received 23 Nov 2009Records 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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