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
21,597 approved · 3,342 refused · 1,263 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Rear of Widdowson House Shripney Road Bersted PO22 9NG
Received 8 Feb 201145 High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RU
Received 11 Oct 2013Land at Fallowdale North Drive Angmering
Received 20 Apr 2011Land Southwest of Drove Lane Farm Yapton
Received 17 Apr 2014Mapsons Lidsey Road Bognor Regis PO22 9PQ
Received 26 Apr 2017102 Sea Lane Ferring BN12 5HB
Received 21 May 2010The Old Printworks 7 Arundel Road Littlehampton BN17 7BY
Received 29 Oct 202127 Sea Drive Summerley Estate Felpham
Received 21 Jan 200838 Winston Crescent Bersted PO21 5DG
Received 11 Feb 2014Manor Cottage Station Road Rustington BN16 3AS
Received 16 Jan 2015Land off Mill Road Car Park Mill Road Arundel
Received 31 Jan 201235 Blondell Drive Rose Green Bognor Regis PO21 4BN
Received 2 Jan 2020The Chase 101 North Bersted Street Bersted PO22 9AF
Received 4 May 202132 Elmcroft Place Westergate Aldingbourne PO20 3XL
Received 21 Apr 2022Ormistons Six VIllages Academy Lime Avenue Westergate PO20 3UE
Received 5 Aug 202022 Sefton Avenue Aldwick PO21 3BN
Received 5 Feb 202632 The Fairway Aldwick
Received 9 Feb 2007Church Farm Holiday Village Church Lane Pagham PO21 4NR
Received 10 Nov 2011Abbeyfield Society 23 Beehive Lane Ferring Worthing BN12 5NN
Received 3 Oct 20131 Brendon Way Rustington BN16 3PN
Received 29 Apr 2020Piculet Sack Lane Lidsey
Received 14 Nov 2007The Old Barn Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5LL
Received 1 Jun 201110 Lidsey Road Woodgate Aldingbourne
Received 3 Mar 20081 Tillington Cottages Main Road Yapton BN18 0EU
Received 24 Feb 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage