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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
21,688 approved · 3,365 refused · 1,267 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
40 Kent Road Littlehampton
Received 21 May 2007Dogwood House Clapham Village BN13 3UU
Received 13 Jul 201152 East Front Road Pagham PO21 4ST
Received 6 Jun 2011The Old Barn Arundel Road Fontwell BN18 0SX
Received 19 Nov 2012Flat 7 Magnolia Court 119 Victoria Drive Bognor Regis
Received 15 Sept 2006Manor Cottage Station Road Rustington BN16 3AS
Received 3 Aug 2015The Chapel Bilsham Lane Bilsham Yapton BN18 0JX
Received 1 Apr 202114 Sea Way Middleton-on-Sea BOGNOR REGIS PO22 7SA
Received 23 Jun 2009Manor Road Garage Manor Road East Preston
Received 7 Apr 2011102 The Splash Wepham BN18 9RE
Received 18 Jan 2011Osbourne Refrigeration Rose Green Road Aldwick
Received 7 Mar 2014Langford Horsemere Green Lane Climping BN17 5QZ
Received 23 Sept 202019 Jervis Avenue Rustington Littlehampton BN16 2AU
Received 21 Sept 2009Site to the rear of The Old House High Street Angmering BN16 4AG
Received 25 Nov 201311 The Marigolds Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9PB
Received 17 Feb 201583 Timberleys Littlehampton BN17 6QA
Received 2 Jun 201422 Mill Lane Rustington
Received 11 Feb 200828 Jubilee Avenue Rustington
Received 5 Mar 2007Lidsey Caravan Site Lidsey Road Bognor Regis
Received 15 Jan 2009Land South East of St Marys C of E Primary School Crookthorn Lane Climping
Received 1 Oct 2025The Lodge Aldingbourne Drive Aldingbourne
Received 4 Apr 2008Parish Centre Hislop Walk Bognor Regis PO21 1LP
Received 19 Apr 2022Downs Cottage Avisford Park Road Walberton
Received 19 Feb 20071 Sea Lane Close Ferring BN12 5DT
Received 16 Aug 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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