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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
26,755 approved · 4,507 refused · 1,610 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2000 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Mauldmare Close Aldwick PO21 3SB
Received 31 Jul 202633 Balliol Close Aldwick PO21 5QE
Received 25 Apr 201918 First Avenue Felpham PO22 7LG
Received 23 Nov 20079 Abbottsbury Pagham PO21 4RX
Received 17 Jun 2013Cottage Pie South Strand East Preston BN16 1PN
Received 29 Mar 20229 Granville Road Littlehampton BN17 5JU
Received 27 Oct 2014Church Field Station Road East Preston BN16 3AJ
Received 8 Jun 20114 Ingram Close Rustington BN16 3NZ
Received 17 Dec 2018209 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3QD
Received 26 Feb 2019Land North of Manor Road Adjoining Nursery Close East Preston
Received 10 Aug 2009Tesco Stores Ltd Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9ND
Received 30 Oct 200969 Roundstone Drive East Preston BN16 1EW
Received 7 Apr 20216 Rosemead Littlehampton BN17 6UH
Received 1 Oct 201034 Aldwick Gardens Bognor Regis PO21 3QR
Received 1 Apr 20197 Ruston Park Rustington BN16 2AB
Received 29 Sept 202623 Honeysuckle Drive Mill Farm Estate Pagham
Received 11 Jan 2005Little Sefter Farm Pagham Road Pagham
Received 3 Jun 20261 Northwood Cottages Burndell Road Yapton BN18 0HR
Received 5 Jun 2018Woodgate Centre Oaktree Lane Aldingbourne PO20 3GU
Received 12 Jan 20112 Inglewood Drive Aldwick PO21 4JX
Received 5 Mar 2021Little Deerswood Gorse Avenue East Preston BN16 1SF
Received 8 Feb 20192 Belle Vue Cottages Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3QU
Received 24 Apr 20185 Selborne Place Selborne Road Littlehampton BN17 5NH
Received 11 Sept 2017Land adj to 47 South Way (Former Caretakers house) Bognor Regis
Received 19 Mar 2013Records 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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