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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
20,746 approved · 3,177 refused · 1,184 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Fallows Highground Lane Barnham PO22 0BT
Received 11 Jun 2019Holland Nursery Toddington Lane Wick Littlehampton BN17 7PP
Received 29 Apr 2014HM Prison Ford Ford Rd Ford BN18 0BX
Received 23 Sept 2021Old Well Cottage High Street Angmering BN16 4AG
Received 26 Jun 2017East Preston Lodge 35 Vicarage Lane East Preston BN16 2SP
Received 28 Oct 2013Windroos Nursery And Land Adjoining Worthing Road Littlehampton BN17 6LY
Received 23 Nov 2018Allestree Court Walton Road Bognor Regis PO21 1NN
Received 13 Nov 20251 Stanford Close Bognor Regis
Received 5 Jun 2008Little Avenings Church Road Angmering BN16 4JP
Received 26 Feb 2019The Wheatsheaf Public House 85 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis
Received 4 May 2007Manor Farm Eastergate PO20 6EE
Received 15 Mar 201039 Tack Lee Road Yapton BN18 0HB
Received 14 Apr 2019Sandfield House Lyminster Road Wick BN17 7PG
Received 19 Feb 2015Angmering Manor High Street Angmering BN16 4AG
Received 8 Sept 2020131 Elmer Road Middleton on Sea PO22 6HZ
Received 7 Aug 20136-8 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PY
Received 23 Nov 2011Myrtle Cottage 6 Mytrle Grove East Preston BN16 2SW
Received 10 Jan 201849 Fitzalan Road Arundel BN18 9JP
Received 14 Sept 2017Jericho 188 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis PO21 2UX
Received 19 Mar 201315 Highview Road Eastergate PO20 3XB
Received 17 Jan 201816 Leonora Drive Pagham PO21 3NW
Received 15 Sept 201724 West Street Bognor Regis
Received 29 May 2009Manor House Mulberry Hollow Angmering BN16 4JB
Received 17 Apr 201816 Sea Drive Felpham PO22 7NE
Received 16 Apr 2015Records 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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