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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
22,281 approved · 3,478 refused · 1,306 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Cootes Lane Middleton PO22 6HN
Received 24 May 20188 Beaconsfield Close Middleton-On-Sea PO22 7SH
Received 24 May 2017The Fletchers Arms Station Road East Preston
Received 12 Nov 2010The Barnham Hotel 28 Barnham Road Barnham PO22 0ES
Received 2 May 201798 Church Way Pagham
Received 11 May 2009Camden House High Street Bognor Regis West Sussex PO21 1SR
Received 8 Apr 20137 Hornbeam Close Aldwick PO21 4AH
Received 3 Sept 201454 Corbishley Road Bognor Regis PO22 9HS
Received 6 Jan 20202 Prime Close Walberton
Received 5 Nov 2008The Red Cottage The Street Walberton BN18 0PQ
Received 2 Dec 2014Lindisfarne Babsham Lane Bersted PO21 5EL
Received 26 Jun 201727 Fairholme Drive Yapton BN18 0JH
Received 23 Oct 201839 Davenport Road Felpham PO22 7JF
Received 18 Jul 20121 Third Avenue Felpham PO22 7LN
Received 26 Apr 201710 Bayford Road Littlehampton BN17 5HL
Received 21 Jan 2022Land at Dappers Lane Angmering
Received 3 Sept 2021Land North of McIntyres Nursery Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PG
Received 19 Apr 201033 Gossamer Lane Aldwick PO21 3BX
Received 4 Nov 20201 Southfields Road Littlehampton BN17 6AF
Received 9 Nov 201227 North Way Felpham
Received 24 Jul 200612 Squires Grove Eastergate PO20 3AY
Received 25 Nov 202125 Upper West Drive Ferring BN12 5RG
Received 2 Jun 2017Basement Flat 39 South Terrace Littlehampton BN17 5NU
Received 4 Sept 201816 Hinchliff Drive Wick BN17 7GD
Received 13 Oct 2025Records 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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