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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18,352 approved · 2,732 refused · 1,064 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
17 Sea Lane Ferring BN12 5DP
Received 18 Oct 2013Land at Chantry Mead & rear of 14-18 Downview Road Barnham PO22 0EG
Received 21 May 202061A Annandale Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2ET
Received 23 Aug 201923 High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RS
Received 5 Nov 2010Kingsgate 49 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DS
Received 20 Sept 20121 Tower House Gardens Arundel BN18 9RU
Received 7 Jul 2014Cocoa Cottage 6 Arundel Road Angmering BN16 4LA
Received 15 Jan 2014Sefter Farm Pagham Road Pagham PO20 3PX
Received 16 Apr 201213 Sutton Avenue Rustington BN16 2ES
Received 14 Jul 2015East Preston Infants School Lashmar Road East Preston BN16 1EZ
Received 27 May 201533 Longford Road Bognor Regis PO21 1AB
Received 1 Jul 202632 Ancton Way Elmer Sands PO22 6JW
Received 19 Apr 201047 North Lane East Preston BN16 1BX
Received 21 Feb 201218 Lansdowne Road Angmering BN16 4JX
Received 27 May 2020Land at Oldlands Farm Newlands Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 28 Feb 20252 Orchard Place Arundel West Sussex BN18 9BP
Received 24 Aug 2010Incorrect Parish 12 Mallard Crescent Pagham PO21 4UU
Received 9 Feb 202111 Dalloway Road Arundel BN18 9HU
Received 4 Dec 201212 Willowhale Avenue Aldwick PO21 4AY
Received 17 May 201030 Wychwood Close Aldwick PO21 4DW
Received 13 Aug 2015Gustone Farm Barnham Lane Walberton
Received 18 Feb 2009Land to the rear of 54 Pinehurst Aldwick PO21 3DX
Received 25 Aug 202540 Leverton Avenue Felpham PO22 7RA
Received 18 May 2018Land North of Littlehampton Academy Littlehampton
Received 9 Sept 2026Records 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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