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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
25,415 approved · 4,157 refused · 1,535 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Dec 2002 to 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land to east of Roundstone Lane Angmering BN16 4AL
Received 30 Jul 2012Greyfriars 3 Tower House Gardens Arundel BN18 9RU
Received 24 Aug 201121 Northway Road Littlehampton BN17 7JX
Received 15 Dec 2018Site 6 Chichester Road North Bersted
Received 9 May 20112 St Nicholas Cottages The Street Houghton BN18 9LW
Received 17 Feb 201216 Aldwick Road Bognor Regis PO21 2LP
Received 14 Mar 2014Tortington House Tortington Lane Tortington
Received 6 Jul 2006Rear Garden Of 48 Farnhurst Road Barnham
Received 9 Nov 200623 Bell Davies Road Littlehampton BN17 6DU
Received 29 Apr 2015Winton Stores The Square Findon BN14 0TE
Received 19 Jan 201092 North Lane Rustington BN16 3PW
Received 26 May 20109 Priory Road Arundel BN18 9EJ
Received 23 Nov 2009Lec Refrigeration Staff Car Park Shripney Road Bognor Regis
Received 18 Apr 2005Gable Cottage West Drive Aldwick PO21 4LZ
Received 11 Mar 2011Avenals Farm Water Lane Angmering BN16 4EP
Received 25 Apr 20171 Upper Drive East Preston
Received 16 May 200532 New Road Littlehampton
Received 8 Nov 2004Waterfront 46 Pier Road Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 5LW
Received 5 Feb 2014Denmans Denmans Lane Fontwell Arundel BN18 0SU
Received 15 Aug 201231 Willowhale Avenue Aldwick
Received 23 Nov 2005The Tamarisk Centre 42 Beach Road Littlehampton BN17 5HT
Received 24 Mar 2014The Middleton Pharmacy 132 Middleton Road Bognor Regis PO22 6DB
Received 27 Nov 2012Eastlands Littlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PB
Received 9 Feb 2015The Pagham Club 2 West Front Road Pagham PO21 4SY
Received 4 Jan 2022Records 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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