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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
22,591 approved · 3,538 refused · 1,325 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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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.
Land south of Littlehampton Road Angmering BN12 6PN
Received 4 Aug 2021Twitten between 1 & 2 The Byeway Aldwick PO21 4ER
Received 8 Jul 2015Lidsey Lodge Farm Sack Lane Lidsey PO22 9PE
Received 24 Feb 202161 Cornwall Road Littlehampton
Received 23 Oct 2008The Royal Hotel The Esplanade Bognor Regis PO21 1SZ
Received 21 Apr 202171 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9BQ
Received 18 Mar 2015Church Farm Holiday Village Pagham PO21 4NR
Received 26 May 201012 River Road Littlehampton BN17 5BN
Received 1 Oct 20142 Orchard Crescent Arundel Road Walberton BN18 0SD
Received 3 Jul 2018251 Pagham Road & Land R/O Pagham PO21 3QB
Received 5 Jan 20181-3 Little Paddocks House Little Paddocks Way Ferring
Received 23 Mar 20076 Eastern Close East Preston BN16 1BS
Received 15 Mar 2011The Grange Church Hill Slindon BN18 0RD
Received 25 Nov 2011The Stables North Bersted Street Bersted PO22 9AH
Received 8 Apr 202612 Cambridge Drive Bognor Regis
Received 23 Aug 2006Land at Sheepwash Farm Church Road Aldingbourne PO20 3TT
Received 26 Sept 201114 Truro Crescent Aldwick PO21 3RQ
Received 1 Sept 201447 Stanhope Road Littlehampton
Received 27 Apr 200715 Waters Edge Aldwick
Received 13 Jun 20082 Wychwood Walk Aldwick
Received 30 Jul 2021Thelton House Apartments Crossbush Lane Crossbush Arundel BN18 9PQ
Received 26 Sept 2011Existing Barn Sack Lane Dairy Sack Lane Lidsey
Received 25 Sept 201359 Singleton Crescent Ferring BN12 5DG
Received 7 Jul 2014Land at Asda Superstore Littlehampton Road Ferring Worthing BN12 6PN
Received 13 Aug 2018Records 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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