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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
22,535 approved · 3,527 refused · 1,322 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lyndhurst Eastergate Lane Eastergate PO20 3SJ
Received 19 Nov 2007Littlehampton Coastguard Tower The Promenade Arun Parade Littlehampton BN17 5LL
Received 15 Jul 200991 Chichester Road Bognor Regis
Received 2 Jul 200744 Lyminster Road Littlehampton BN17 7LB
Received 31 Aug 2015Courtwick Lane Land south of railway Littlehampton BN17 7PD
Received 11 Aug 2014Land to the North of Eastergate and North West of Barnham PO22 0DF
Received 29 Oct 20203 & 5 Derwent Grove Felpham PO22 8NE
Received 29 Aug 201916 Madeira Avenue Bognor Regis PO22 8BY
Received 25 Jul 201938 The Roystons East Preston BN16 2TS
Received 19 May 2021Land at Felpham Felpham
Received 6 Nov 200911 Priory Road Arundel BN18 9EJ
Received 2 Mar 20151 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PG
Received 2 Feb 2010Land off Burndell Road Yapton
Received 20 Aug 2019The Lodge Worthing Road Rustington BN16 3PS
Received 29 Jun 202678 Horsham Road Littlehampton BN17 6DR
Received 2 Jul 20093 Balmoral Close Bognor Regis PO21 4PP
Received 14 Nov 201412 Amberley Road Rustington
Received 9 Jul 2015Abergail Clyde Road Felpham PO22 7AH
Received 7 Oct 201958 Elm Park Ferring
Received 26 Jun 200912 Limmer Lane Felpham
Received 19 Jan 2007Mill Road Lodge, Arundel Chichester Road, Arundel Whiteways Lodge, Houghton Field SE of A27/A284 Junction Crossbush
Received 22 May 200791 The Fairway Aldwick PO21 4EW
Received 22 Dec 201434 Warren Crescent East Preston
Received 10 Sept 2008Elm Cottage The Street Walberton
Received 10 Apr 2006Records 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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