Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
20,860 approved · 3,200 refused · 1,192 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 Tennyson Avenue Rustington BN16 2PH
Received 19 Mar 2013Barnham Community Hall Yapton Road Barnham
Received 17 Sept 2012Field Place Church Lane Climping BN17 5RR
Received 19 Jul 2010Chalcroft Nurseries Chalcraft Lane Bersted PO21 5TS
Received 1 Oct 2026The Old Dairy Behind 3 & 5 Church Street Littlehampton BN17 5EL
Received 10 Jun 201434 Halliford Drive Barnham Bognor Regis PO22 0AB
Received 9 Jul 2012Eugenie Eastergate Lane Walberton BN18 0BA
Received 20 Oct 2011Yeomans Nissan Unit 1 Arun Business Park Bognor Regis PO22 9SX
Received 6 Feb 2018The Old Thatched Cottage North End Road Yapton BN18 0DL
Received 10 Mar 2015Land and Buildings on the West side of Yapton Lane Walberton
Received 1 Oct 20261 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TF
Received 18 Nov 20215 Colindale Road Ferring BN12 5JF
Received 25 Oct 202155 Sea Avenue Rustington
Received 1 Oct 2007Land east of Tye Lane Walberton Arun
Received 21 Dec 20181 Farm Close Elmer MIDDLETON-ON-SEA PO22 6JQ
Received 24 Aug 20173 Farm Cottages Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9LN
Received 4 Jul 2012131 - 135 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7DH
Received 13 Nov 201736 High Street Littlehampton
Received 10 Jan 200811 Irvine Road Littlehampton
Received 8 Aug 2008Palm Cottage 62 Ash Lane Rustington
Received 18 Mar 200838 Ley Road Felpham PO22 7HU
Received 28 Sept 201910A Kingsmead Felpham PO22 7BE
Received 1 Nov 2020The Old Cottage Station Road Angmering
Received 24 Oct 2013Land to the south of Ford Lane East of North End Road Ford BN18 0DS
Received 23 Apr 2021Records 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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