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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
18,352 approved · 2,732 refused · 1,064 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Southfields Playing Fields Southfields Road Littlehampton
Received 30 Jan 201284 Flansham Lane Felpham PO22 6AH
Received 20 Jul 2017White Meadows Primary School Whitelea Road Littlehampton BN17 7JL
Received 16 Apr 2013Harfield Court Lyon Street Bognor Regis PO21 1EE
Received 3 Jul 2012Land East of Wandleys Lane Fontwell
Received 26 Aug 2026Land adj to Old Timbers Shellbridge Road Slindon
Received 18 Nov 2011Aldworth House 91 The Fairway Aldwick PO21 4EW
Received 16 Nov 2012Land adjacent to Felsted Cottage Arundel Road Fontwell
Received 12 Jun 200951 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7BY
Received 8 Dec 201910 Botany Close Rustington BN16 2BJ
Received 13 Feb 2013Oldlands Farm Steyning Way Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 14 Aug 201412 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TF
Received 12 Jan 2015Land at Ford Airfield Ford
Received 30 Jan 2026Kingley Gate Development Courtwick lane Land South of Railway, Littlehampton
Received 21 Feb 20141 Spencer Street Bognor Regis PO21 1AP
Received 30 Mar 2022The Lodge Worthing Road Rustington BN16 3PS
Received 29 Jun 202612 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PY
Received 2 Aug 2017188 Fitzalan Road Arundel BN18 9JZ
Received 23 Aug 2021Windlesham 7 St Winefrides Road Littlehampton BN17 5NL
Received 20 Nov 2020Land adjacent to Woodgate Nurseries Lidsey Road Aldingbourne PO20 3SU
Received 7 Oct 2025Rustington Methodist Church Claigmar Road Rustington BN16 2NL
Received 21 Jul 20159 Brook Lane Ferring BN12 5HZ
Received 1 Oct 2014Rear of 42 Sudley Road Bognor Regis PO21 1ES
Received 14 Oct 2026207 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5AQ
Received 17 May 2010Records 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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