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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
19,222 approved · 2,895 refused · 1,088 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Adjacent to Walnut Tree Cottage Shripney Lane Shripney PO22 9NR
Received 10 Jul 20191 Downlands Close Pagham PO21 3QA
Received 11 Dec 2014The Bungalow Southdown Nursery Old Mead Road Littlehampton BN17 7PU
Received 14 Nov 201722 Hillsboro Road Bognor Regis PO21 2DX
Received 7 Mar 201134 Nyewood Lane Bognor Regis PO21 2SJ
Received 11 Jul 2014St Helier Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9LN
Received 21 Feb 202247 Priory Road Rustington BN16 3PZ
Received 8 Sept 202097 Barnham Road Barnham PO22 0BQ
Received 7 Sept 2021Elm Cottage 30 The Street Rustington BN16 3NX
Received 15 Sept 2021North Open Barn Hoe Lane Flansham PO22 8NT
Received 10 Oct 20197 Sterling Parade The Street Rustington
Received 17 Apr 2008Fittleworth Medical Ltd 2 Henry Lock Way Littlehampton BN17 7FB
Received 7 Mar 201712 Colindale Road North Ferring BN12 5LB
Received 15 Jul 201918-22 East Street Littlehampton BN17 6AW
Received 8 Jul 201915 Drygrounds Lane Felpham PO22 8PS
Received 1 Aug 20144 Merry End Middleton-on-sea PO22 6DP
Received 24 Aug 202614 Peregrine Road Littlehampton
Received 8 Jun 2009Fernbank Cottage Waterloo Road Felpham PO22 7EH
Received 17 Jul 2009Wickstead House Binsted Lane Walberton BN18 0LN
Received 17 Mar 202674 Orchard Way Barnham PO22 0HY
Received 9 Feb 201621 Culver Road Felpham PO22 7EF
Received 3 Jul 201746 Cornwall Road Littlehampton
Received 30 May 2008Former Littlehampton Indoor Market 26-30 Surrey Street Littlehampton
Received 10 Dec 2004Springfield Nyetimber Lane Pagham Bognor Regis PO21 3JX
Received 16 Dec 2009Records 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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