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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
22,789 approved · 3,577 refused · 1,346 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Mead 7 Rife Way Felpham PO22 7BN
Received 12 May 2014Turret House Limmer Lane Felpham
Received 19 Jan 201712 Pagham Road Bognor Regis PO21 4NP
Received 27 May 2010Verge at front of 2, 12, 28, 32, 34 and 36 East Drive Angmering BN16 4JN
Received 7 Mar 2013Westfield Court Norfolk Road Littlehampton BN17 5AQ
Received 21 Nov 2014The Corner House Station Road Rustington BN16 3AF
Received 19 Jul 201018 Boleyn Drive Pagham PO21 3LG
Received 20 Mar 2017Goldcrest Babsham Lane Bersted PO21 5EL
Received 22 Oct 20125 Pinehurst Park Aldwick PO21 3DL
Received 27 Nov 202528 Meadow Park East Preston BN16 1EG
Received 7 Nov 2008Land South of Shripney Garden Caravan Park, Shripney Lane Bognor Regis PO22 9NS
Received 28 Nov 2011South Point Beehive Lane Ferring BN12 5NL
Received 18 Aug 2017Oldlands Way Bognor Regis PO22 9SA
Received 10 Feb 201235 Hasler Grove Aldingbourne PO20 3AN
Received 18 Feb 2020R/O 27-29B Surrey Street Littlehampton BN17 5BD
Received 21 Jan 201134 Ruskin Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 5BW
Received 21 Apr 202125 Maxwell Road Littlehampton
Received 29 Apr 200991 Gravits Lane Bognor Regis PO21 5LN
Received 5 Oct 2009Rose Cottage Church Road Yapton BN18 0EW
Received 15 Sept 202132 Penfolds Place Arundel BN18 9SA
Received 15 Jun 20154 The Martlets Rustington
Received 6 Jul 200648 Moraunt Drive Bognor Regis PO22 6SA
Received 15 May 2014Land adjacent to Sussex Recovery Company Fontwell Avenue Eastergate PO20 3RU
Received 12 Sept 2018Land at Ford Airfield Ford
Received 18 Sept 2024Records 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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