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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
18,149 approved · 2,687 refused · 1,053 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Mill Cottage Climping Street Climping BN17 5RN
Received 13 Feb 2019Newburgh House School Lane Arundel BN18 9DR
Received 14 Oct 20115 Peel Close Littlehampton BN17 7HP
Received 11 Nov 201439 High Street Arundel BN18 9AG
Received 17 Mar 2014Eden Park/Elysian Fields Worthing Road Toddington Littlehampton
Received 27 Mar 2009Seacroft Outram Road Felpham Bognor Regis PO22 7AL
Received 23 Jun 20118 Vernon Close Rustington BN16 2NR
Received 24 Feb 202021 Hollist Chase Wick Littlehampton BN17 6FY
Received 10 Aug 20203 Payne Close Pagham PO21 4QA
Received 12 Apr 201818A Ocean Drive Ferring BN12 5GJ
Received 29 Jul 2021Land at West Drive Angmering West Sussex BN16 4JE
Received 5 Dec 20171 Kerry Gardens East Preston BN16 1HQ
Received 30 May 2022Land rear of Eappa Farmhouse North End Road Yapton BN18 0DL
Received 10 Oct 201154 Ocean Drive Ferring BN12 5QP
Received 3 Mar 2011Land to the north of Eastergate and north west of Barnham Barnham
Received 25 Apr 2022Green Acres Copse Lane Walberton BN18 0QH
Received 12 Aug 2011Glenfield 75 Mead Lane Bognor Regis PO22 8AP
Received 6 Mar 20206 Sandy Road Pagham PO21 4SP
Received 3 Dec 2014Telephone Exchange Barnham Road Eastergate PO20 3RP
Received 29 Feb 2012Twyford Lodge 54 Sea Avenue Rustington
Received 17 Apr 2009Regis Centre Belmont Street Bognor Regis PO21 1BL
Received 2 Jan 2014Land rear of 86 Annandale Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2EX
Received 4 Sept 2026Site 6 Chichester Road North Bersted
Received 11 Jul 2012Easter Cottage The Thatchway Rustington BN16 2BN
Received 26 Nov 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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