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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
25,531 approved · 4,184 refused · 1,543 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Mount Pleasant Arundel BN18 9BD
Received 28 Sept 2007Unit 5A Clock Park Shripney Road Bognor Road PO22 9NH
Received 21 May 2010Courtney Lodge Sylvan Way Bognor Regis PO21 2RS
Received 11 Jan 20213 Meadway Rustington BN16 2DD
Received 3 Mar 2017Rudford Industrial Estate, Unit J Ford Road Ford BN18 0BF
Received 31 Oct 2019Norfolk Arms Hotel 22 High Street Arundel BN18 9AB
Received 9 Mar 2017Parkside Evangelical Church 1 St Floras Road Littlehampton
Received 21 Apr 2006Chalcraft Lane/Lower Bognor Road Bognor Regis PO21 5QB
Received 16 Jul 2020The Cottage Punchbowl Green Madehurst
Received 25 Jan 2007Rustington Service Station 102 Worthing Road Rustington
Received 11 Sept 20069 Mill Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PH
Received 24 Aug 20152 Elmer Road Bognor Regis PO22 6EL
Received 11 Oct 2011Wandleys Farm Wandleys Lane Walberton BN18 0QR
Received 13 Mar 2021Selden Court France Lane Patching BN13 3UP
Received 21 Sept 20116 Norfolk Way Middleton on Sea PO22 6JF
Received 6 Apr 2010The Orchard 28 Limmer Lane Felpham
Received 15 Jun 2005March Wind Dark Lane Aldwick PO21 4AJ
Received 30 May 201824 Trinity Way Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 5SS
Received 22 Aug 2018Parcel Of Land 254 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3PY
Received 27 May 202634 Downview Road Barnham PO22 0EG
Received 15 Aug 2012Unit 2B Littlehampton Marina Ferry Road Littlehampton
Received 21 Dec 200728 Harbour Road Pagham PO21 4TG
Received 24 Sept 2019Car park at Willowhayne Mews Preston Paddock Rustington BN16 2AF
Received 15 Oct 20195 Green Park Ferring
Received 8 Nov 2005Records 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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