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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
18,428 approved · 2,751 refused · 1,065 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South of The Hollies 84 Barnham Road Eastergate PO22 0ES
Received 25 Feb 2026Dog Leg Field Bilsham Farm Bilsham Lane Yapton
Received 24 Sept 2010Church Farm Holiday Village Church Lane Pagham Bognor Regis PO21 4NR
Received 19 Aug 20101 - 3 Broadmark Lane Rustington BN16 2NE
Received 15 Apr 201519 Crescent Road Bognor Regis PO21 1QG
Received 10 Jul 2026Moonrakers Dark Lane Aldwick PO21 4AJ
Received 2 Feb 20181 Lichfield Gardens Aldwick PO21 3RB
Received 22 Dec 201131 Upper Drive East Preston BN16 1QN
Received 8 May 2013Greenfields Farm Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 11 Sept 2017Tahrah Maxwell Road Arundel BN18 9EU
Received 12 Feb 201827 Lansdowne Road Angmering BN16 4JX
Received 24 Jul 201850 Sea Way Middleton On Sea PO22 7SA
Received 12 Jul 2010Walberton Place Nursing Home Yapton Lane Walberton West Sussex BN18 0AS
Received 26 Jul 20184 Polperro Close Ferring BN12 5JH
Received 12 Feb 201520 Glynde Crescent Felpham PO22 8HT
Received 28 Jul 2015The Royal Hotel The Esplanade Bognor Regis PO21 1SZ
Received 18 Dec 201818 Elm Avenue East Preston BN16 1HL
Received 16 Apr 201544 Hillview Crescent East Preston BN16 1RQ
Received 8 May 2014Site to Rear of 51 High Street Tarrant Square Tarrant Street Arundel BN18 9DE
Received 15 May 2013Kingfisher Manor Pine Marten Close Pagham PO21 3WE
Received 23 Jan 2026Dovecote Hobbs Court Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JY
Received 21 Jan 2015106 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5AA
Received 11 Mar 202031 Swandene Bognor Regis PO21 4UR
Received 3 Nov 2014Land east of Wandleys Lane Fontwell
Received 26 Jun 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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