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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
21,950 approved · 3,407 refused · 1,279 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Field House Church Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TT
Received 10 Sept 2020Land At Toddington Farm North And West Of 1 to 3 Toddington Toddington Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PN
Received 4 Aug 2026Littlehampton Tyre & Exhaust Centre St Martins Barn Littlehampton
Received 2 May 200845 Chaucer Avenue Rustington BN16 2PG
Received 9 Aug 2019Elm Farm 34 The Street Rustington BN16 3NX
Received 15 May 2015Old Bank House 1 High Street Arundel BN18 9AD
Received 11 Nov 202011 Abbotsbury Pagham
Received 25 May 2017The Hollytree The Street Walberton BN18 0PH
Received 12 Aug 2014Land south of A259 Rustington
Received 1 Jul 201555 Ockley Road Bognor Regis
Received 6 Aug 20104 Parham Close Littlehampton BN17 6HF
Received 21 Jul 200915 Craigweil Lane Aldwick PO21 4AN
Received 18 Oct 2011Fellows Gardens Yapton BN18 0HW
Received 20 Nov 2014107 Felpham Way Felpham PO22 8QB
Received 18 Jun 2021Former McIntyre Nursery Littlehampton Road Ferring BN16 4AY
Received 10 Oct 2014Flat 28 Trotyn Croft Aldwick PO21 3TX
Received 13 Jun 2026Specsavers Opticians 22 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PY
Received 15 Jan 2014Land North East of Robert House Rudford Industrial Estate Ford BN18 0BE
Received 8 Dec 201011 Horsham Road West Littlehampton BN17 6DL
Received 13 Dec 2018Mayfield House Yapton Road Barnham PO22 0BJ
Received 16 May 2018Parkside Fiat Hotham Park High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1HW
Received 3 Oct 2012The Old Piggery The Street Climping
Received 9 Jan 200874 Barrack Lane Aldwick PO21 4DE
Received 27 Jun 2012Lindwood 34 Kingsway Aldwick PO21 4DH
Received 9 Aug 2020Records 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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