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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
17,976 approved · 2,641 refused · 1,046 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
66 Tennyson Avenue Rustington BN16 2PH
Received 21 Jun 2019The Chase 101 North Bersted Street Bersted PO22 9AF
Received 1 Jun 2021Sea Glimpse 3 Woodstock Gardens Aldwick PO21 3PR
Received 12 Jan 2015Ford Materials Recycling Facility Ford Road Ford BN18 0FL
Received 24 Jan 201129 Chawkmare Coppice Aldwick PO21 3SA
Received 26 Jun 2018Land South of Summer Lane and West of Pagham Road Pagham
Received 28 May 202617 Foamcourt Waye Ferring BN12 5RD
Received 21 Jan 202249 Warren Way Barnham PO22 0JX
Received 26 Feb 2019Sunnymeade Courtwick Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PA
Received 30 Jan 201716 West Ridings East Preston BN16 2TD
Received 29 Jun 20103 The Jetty West Drive Middleton-on-Sea PO22 7TS
Received 11 Mar 2015Rookstone Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NZ
Received 21 Oct 201134 Lamorna Gardens Westergate PO20 3RU
Received 21 Oct 2011Arundel Acre Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4EU
Received 7 Apr 202252 Southdean Drive Middleton-On-Sea PO22 7TB
Received 2 Sept 201912 Lundy Close Littlehampton BN17 6NX
Received 12 Nov 2018Verge at entrance of The Dunes Aldwick Bay Estate Aldwick PO21 4ES
Received 14 Feb 2014Fairmead Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NZ
Received 20 May 2019Barnham Court Lodge Church Lane Barnham PO22 0BP
Received 1 May 202222 A'Becket's Avenue Aldwick PO21 4LX
Received 3 Mar 2021White Cottage Mill Road Offham BN18 9PB
Received 15 Apr 201046 Meadow Way Littlehampton BN17 6BL
Received 25 Sept 2014Hotham Park Clock Tower Hotham Park High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1HN
Received 8 Nov 2017The Grange Grange Court Aldwick PO21 4XR
Received 19 May 2021Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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