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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
21,463 approved · 3,315 refused · 1,239 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Horsham Road West Littlehampton BN17 6DL
Received 4 May 2010Swansea House West Street Bognor Regis PO21 1XH
Received 21 Aug 201492 Westlands Rustington BN16 3NW
Received 22 Feb 2022Town Hall Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9AP
Received 18 Nov 202145 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DS
Received 21 Jan 20112 The Drive East Preston BN16 1QH
Received 12 Apr 2017221 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis PO21 2UW
Received 8 Oct 2014Boweries Barnham Road Eastergate
Received 17 Sept 2007The Claremont Scott Street Bognor Regis PO21 1UH
Received 14 Sept 2014Walberton Nursery Yapton Lane Walberton BN18 0AS
Received 12 Dec 2017Twoways Avisford Park Road Walberton
Received 20 Jul 2007Fox Rough Selden Lane Patching
Received 7 Mar 201145 Winston Crescent Bognor Regis PO21 5DF
Received 19 Feb 201025 Lansdowne Way Angmering
Received 2 Jan 200734 Windmill Drive Rustington BN16 3HJ
Received 5 Apr 2011Land East of Drove Lane Yapton BN18 0EB
Received 1 Dec 2021204 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5BE
Received 19 Oct 200910 Gunwin Court Aldwick PO21 4BW
Received 13 Feb 2018Junction of Westergate Street and Meadow Way, Westergate Aldingbourne
Received 21 May 200730 Links Avenue Felpham PO22 7BX
Received 20 Apr 201815 Limmer Lane Felpham PO22 7ET
Received 6 Sept 2010Unit 5 Dickinson Place Bognor Regis PO22 9QU
Received 15 May 201915 Telgarth Road Ferring BN12 5PX
Received 29 Apr 20158 The Martlets Rustington BN16 2TY
Received 11 Apr 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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