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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
22,653 approved · 3,553 refused · 1,332 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
East Preston Infant School Lashmar Road East Preston
Received 26 Jul 2018Rustington Golf Centre Golfers Lane Angmering BN16 4NB
Received 22 Apr 20265 Bedford Street Bognor Regis PO21 1SD
Received 16 Dec 202527 Alfriston Close Felpham PO22 6QB
Received 27 Sept 2018Robinswood The Street Patching BN13 3XF
Received 9 Feb 2010Shripney Garden Caravan Site Shripney Lane Bersted PO22 9NS
Received 8 Dec 2017Roundstone Farm Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PW
Received 31 Mar 2014Land at Drove Farm Drove Lane Yapton BN18 0EB
Received 28 Mar 202214 Spinney Walk Barnham PO22 0HT
Received 10 Jul 202153 Queensfield West Westmeads Bognor Regis West Sussex PO21 5SH
Received 30 Mar 20125 East Mead Ferring BN12 5EA
Received 18 May 2022Land North of Toddington Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PP
Received 17 May 2018Travis Perkins Site Pier Road Littlehampton BN17 5BB
Received 21 Dec 2009Land South of Water Lane Angmering
Received 24 Sept 2021The Old Stables Vintage Inn Fontwell Park Fontwell Avenue Eastergate BN18 0SY
Received 5 Oct 201778 Maltravers Street Arundel BN18 9DS
Received 2 Mar 2021Angmering Medical Centre Station Road Angmering
Received 10 Jul 200616 Shelley Road Bognor Regis PO21 2SL
Received 1 Apr 2010Land South of Arundel Road Walberton BN180QP
Received 8 Apr 2021Maltbarn Cottage Weavers Hill Angmering BN16 4BE
Received 26 Apr 2010Merrymeet 25 Ferring Lane Ferring BN12 6QT
Received 4 Jan 2018Woodgate Centre Oak Tree Lane Woodgate PO20 3GU
Received 2 Mar 2026Ford Airfield Industrial Estate, Unit C6 Rollaston Park Ford BN18 0HY
Received 1 Oct 202612 East Avenue Ancton Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6EG
Received 18 Jun 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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