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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
25,264 approved · 4,116 refused · 1,530 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 2002 to 24 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
34 Willowhayne Avenue Angmering
Received 17 Nov 200441 Roundstone Crescent East Preston BN16 1DQ
Received 20 Apr 2018The Beach Hut 3 Oaklands Ferring BN12 5GE
Received 7 Oct 2013Magpies 52 Sea Lane Ferring BN12 5EH
Received 19 Dec 201135 Kingfisher Drive Littlehampton
Received 27 May 200814 Lashmar Road East Preston BN16 1ES
Received 24 Feb 2014Country Fayre Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PN
Received 3 Feb 2012Little Stars Ascot Way Rustington
Received 27 Apr 20091 Gainsboro Road Bognor Regis
Received 9 Nov 200649 Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5LT
Received 13 Aug 202645 The Ridings and 60-62 Sea Lane East Preston BN16 2TW
Received 17 Oct 2012Wintons The Square Findon
Received 6 Oct 2005Decoy Cottage Church Lane Eastergate
Received 12 Jan 2006Harvests Norton Lane Norton Chichester PO20 3NH
Received 28 Jul 2020Stables/Coach House Adjacent 4 Park Place Arundel BN18 8BE
Received 4 Mar 201032 Westmorland Drive Felpham PO22 8NA
Received 20 Apr 20155 Ancton Close Middleton-on-Sea
Received 31 Aug 2007101 Lloyd Goring Close & land to rear of 7-15 Lansdowne Way Angmering
Received 14 Jul 200925 St Richards Drive Bognor Regis PO21 3BJ
Received 22 Jul 20156 Lake Cottages Lake Lane Barnham
Received 1 Jun 2005Abbots Lawn Sylvan Way Bognor Regis
Received 19 Oct 200455 Victoria Drive Bognor Regis PO21 2TQ
Received 2 Dec 2014Part garden land west of 3 Blakes Road Fronting onto Bereweeke Road Felpham
Received 4 Apr 200631 Roundstone Crescent East Preston
Received 20 Sept 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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