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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
21,117 approved · 3,256 refused · 1,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Middleton Sports Club 3 Sea Lane Middleton-on-Sea PO22 7RH
Received 30 May 2012Woodland adjacent to Foxes Close, Summerlea Close and Windsor Road Rustington
Received 13 Jan 202023 Goodwood Avenue Felpham PO22 8EH
Received 15 Oct 2025Peace Sea Road Felpham PO22 7AN
Received 27 Aug 201037A London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PQ
Received 1 Apr 2020Waters Edge Seafield Road East Preston BN16 1NA
Received 18 Nov 201340 Nelson Row Ford
Received 27 Nov 20071 Fox Lea Findon Worthing BN14 0XB
Received 28 Jan 201156 Southdean Drive Middleton-on-sea PO22 7TB
Received 1 Mar 2022Land North of and South of Railway Courtwick Lane Littlehampton BN17 7FR
Received 23 Feb 2018Caspian House 42-48 Richmond Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2YE
Received 10 Sept 2026Clymping Mill Climping Street Climping BN17 5RN
Received 10 May 2019Site 6 Chichester Road Bersted
Received 27 Oct 2010Hangleton Nursery Hangleton Lane Ferring BN12 6PP
Received 5 Mar 201560 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 2XL
Received 27 May 201512 Old Barn Close Pagham PO21 3UG
Received 14 Feb 2022128 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 4NN
Received 28 Jan 2011Limmer Pond Stables Church Road Aldingbourne
Received 11 Feb 201154 Ocean Drive Ferring BN12 5QP
Received 11 Dec 2017Nyton Stables & part of land at Aldingbourne Farm Shop Church Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TU
Received 2 May 2012Arun Retail Park Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NF
Received 15 Feb 2019401 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5BU
Received 2 Sept 2015Woodlands 1 Cross Road Rustington BN16 2ST
Received 2 Nov 201855 The Grangeway Rustington BN16 2QS
Received 7 Nov 2018Records 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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