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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
27,901 approved · 4,701 refused · 1,685 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jan 2000 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 High Street Findon
Received 13 Dec 201026 Gibson Way Bognor Regis PO21 1AW
Received 6 Jan 202233 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 2XH
Received 20 Jun 2019Mill Farm Mill Road Slindon Common
Received 24 Jun 200315 Hatherleigh Gardens Bognor Regis PO21 5HZ
Received 5 Nov 2020Chocolate Box 68 Felpham Road Bognor Regis PO22 7NZ
Received 24 Jan 2014Co-operative Retail Services Ltd Main Road Yapton Arundel BN18 0EY
Received 7 Nov 2013Land East of Drove Lane Yapton BN18 0EB
Received 19 Aug 2020Land off Canal Mews Canal Mews Barnham PO22 0DP
Received 13 Apr 202160 & 62 Sea Lane East Preston BN16 1ND
Received 7 May 2014Springfield Longmead Walberton
Received 26 Mar 2004122a Limmer Lane Felpham
Received 12 Feb 20031 Normans Drive Felpham
Received 22 Dec 200440 North Lane East Preston BN16 1HW
Received 16 Dec 201142 Chanctonbury Road Rustington
Received 19 Aug 200444 Seafield Road Rustington BN16 2JQ
Received 1 Mar 201115 Harefield Road Ancton Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6EB
Received 23 Apr 202048 Meadowside Angmering
Received 31 Mar 2004Land East of Wandleys Lane Fontwell
Received 29 Jul 2026Morelands Arundel Road Fontwell Arundel BN18 0SB
Received 25 Apr 2022The Tower Seaview Avenue Kingston BN16 1RZ
Received 22 May 20188 Holmes Lane Rustington BN16 2QB
Received 18 Sept 2014Land West of Church Lane & South of Horsemere Green Lane Climping
Received 3 Jan 2017Merrie Mead Horsham Road Findon BN14 0UY
Received 31 Mar 2010Records 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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