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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
21,498 approved · 3,319 refused · 1,251 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Clifton Works & Tulletts Garage Clifton Road Bognor Regis
Received 11 Feb 2008Rustington House Worthing Road Rustington BN16 3PS
Received 25 Nov 20254 Greenways Crescent Ferring
Received 12 Mar 2007Land at Phase 1A Oldlands Farm Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 2 Dec 201922 Elverlands Close Ferring
Received 3 May 20114 Priory Close Adlwick Bay Estate PO21 4HH
Received 28 Aug 2013Taxi Office Angmering Railway Station Station Road Angmering BN16 3RE
Received 7 May 202644 Christchurch Crescent Bognor Regis PO21 5SJ
Received 28 Sept 2012Forge House The Street East Preston BN16 1JJ
Received 16 Nov 2018Bramley Lodge Limmer Lane Felpham
Received 4 Jun 200738 The Street Rustington
Received 14 Oct 2014168 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1BD
Received 16 Jun 20107 Annandale Avenue Bognor Regis
Received 22 Jul 2008The Pier The Esplanade Bognor Regis PO21 1SY
Received 8 Dec 2017Home Farm Mill Road Arundel
Received 2 Dec 200918 Summerhill Drive Felpham PO22 6AL
Received 20 Jan 2012Plot to the rear of Starry Nook Sea Road Felpham PO22 7AW
Received 16 Jan 20175 Florida Gardens Ferring BN12 5PG
Received 7 Sept 2017St Philips Catholic Primary School London Road Arundel
Received 15 Jun 20072 Wick Parade Wick Street Littlehampton BN17 7JQ
Received 17 Mar 2020Rustington Convalescent Home Sea Road Rustington BN16 2LZ
Received 17 Apr 20192 Old Farm Close Aldwick PO21 4AX
Received 8 Mar 2021Nyton Stable Nyton Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TU
Received 5 Jul 201951 Pigeonhouse Lane Rustington BN16 2BG
Received 19 May 2022Records 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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