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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20,746 approved · 3,177 refused · 1,184 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Summerfield House Summer Lane Pagham PO21 4NG
Received 16 Mar 202216 Spinnaker View Pagham PO21 3FL
Received 18 Dec 202148 Kew Gardens Bognor Regis PO21 5RD
Received 24 Jan 2011Vernon House 10 Maltravers Drive Littlehampton BN17 5EY
Received 19 Jul 201293 Golden Avenue East Preston BN16 1QT
Received 30 Jun 2020Various locations Wychwood Walk and Queensway Aldwick PO21 4DP
Received 5 Oct 2021Sheepwash Farm Church Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TT
Received 5 Apr 2012Yeomans Honda Worthing Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PB
Received 18 Jul 2019The Lodge West Street Bognor Regis PO21 1XH
Received 4 Oct 2018Salamanda 37 Coastal Road Kingston BN16 1SJ
Received 28 Feb 202216A Cumberland Road Angmering West Sussex BN16 4BG
Received 16 Mar 201729 Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5NB
Received 8 Mar 2013Land North of Littlehampton Academy Littlehampton
Received 7 Oct 202624 High Street Arundel BN18 9AB
Received 26 Sept 2018Land outside 11 Grange Court Aldwick
Received 22 Oct 20253 Mount Pleasant Arundel West Sussex BN18 9BD
Received 25 Apr 20125 Hobbs Court, The Potting Barn Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JY
Received 21 Jun 2021Land to the side of Brus Lodge 28 Kingsway Aldwick PO21 4DH
Received 16 May 201731 Bishops Close Pagham PO21 4QR
Received 23 Jun 2026The Cottage Piggeries Church Lane Barnham PO22 0DB
Received 11 Apr 201911 Mount Pleasant Arundel BN18 9BD
Received 15 Jan 2010Craig Lea 1 Canon's Close Bognor Regis PO21 4EB
Received 6 Dec 2013Pound Place Roundstone Lane Angmering BN16 4AL
Received 29 Oct 2014Charlesdon 26 The Street Rustington West Sussex BN16 3NX
Received 6 Nov 2017Records 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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