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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
18,081 approved · 2,670 refused · 1,053 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 First Avenue Middleton-on-Sea PO22 6ED
Received 7 May 201422 Cudlow Avenue Rustington BN16 2HE
Received 10 Apr 201556 East Front Road Pagham PO20 4ST
Received 5 Sept 2011Rear of 16 Worthing Road East Preston BN16 1AZ
Received 20 Sept 201929 Old Manor Road Rustington BN16 3QU
Received 15 Apr 2019Land off Arundel Road Angmering BE16 4ET
Received 4 Sept 202673 Manning Road Littlehampton BN17 7HX
Received 19 Apr 2022Site 6 Felpham
Received 19 Nov 20121-2 Kents Dairy Cottages Brookpit Lane Climping BN17 5QU
Received 4 Jan 2022ASDA Ferring Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PN
Received 20 Aug 2018Chelsfield 53 Coastal Road East Preston BN16 1SN
Received 23 Oct 2009Land at Elm Farm Cottages Old Manor Road Rustington West Sussex BN163FD
Received 10 Dec 201214 Madehurst Court Gloucester Road Littlehampton BN17 7BX
Received 15 Nov 20172 Glenway Bognor Regis PO22 8BU
Received 19 Nov 2019Parcel Of Land 254 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3PY
Received 26 Mar 20264 Lucerne Court Bognor Regis PO21 4XL
Received 10 Oct 20121 The Grove Bognor Regis PO22 7EY
Received 19 Mar 201210 Bayford Road Littlehampton BN17 5HL
Received 22 Mar 20221 Myrtle Grove East Preston BN16 2SW
Received 21 Feb 2013Land south of Cornfield Close Littlehampton BN17 6LD
Received 27 Jul 2021Land North of Yapton Road and East of Garden Crescent Barnham PO22 0AR
Received 30 Jun 201544 Chawkmare Coppice Aldwick PO21 3SP
Received 15 Jun 2010Ancient Mariner Hotel 59 West Street Bognor Regis PO21 1XB
Received 24 Mar 2015Flat 12, 43 Lyminster Gate Lyminster Road Wick Littlehampton BN17 7LF
Received 4 Apr 2022Records 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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