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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
28,036 approved · 4,726 refused · 1,699 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
341 Chichester Road Bognor Regis
Received 23 Jul 2008Long Meadow Dukes Road Fontwell BN18 0SP
Received 26 May 2026Pound Place Roundstone Lane Angmering BN16 4AL
Received 6 Feb 2020Parcel Of Land 254 Pagham Road Pagham PO21 3PY
Received 5 Jan 202671 High Street Littlehampton
Received 1 Feb 2008Rear of 1 The Precinct Bognor Regis PO21 5SB
Received 7 May 201323 Mill Lane Rustington
Received 16 Nov 2005Waysmeet Cottage Grevatts Lane Climping BN17 5RE
Received 27 Mar 20178 Thatchway Close Wick Littlehampton
Received 18 Apr 2007Unit 24 Arun Business Park Bognor Regis PO22 9SX
Received 4 Jul 2014Land at outside of Shutters A280 Long Furlong Clapham
Received 9 Dec 2003Happytime Pre School 14 North Bersted Street Bognor Regis PO22 9AD
Received 28 Apr 2014Clover Cottage 105 Middleton Road Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6DW
Received 6 Feb 2020Land South Of Cornfield Close Littlehampton BN17 6LD
Received 12 Dec 2019Land Rear of 27-29B Surrey Street Littlehampton BN17 5BD
Received 3 Aug 2011Land Adjacent to Woodgate Nurseries Lidsey Road Aldingbourne PO20 3SU
Received 12 Nov 2025Land west of New Barn Lane Bersted
Received 22 Sept 2017Rowan Way Streetworks Bognor Regis PO22 9QQ
Received 16 Jul 20155 Preston Avenue Rustington BN16 2DB
Received 23 Feb 2020Old Pines 28 East Drive Angmering BN16 4JH
Received 15 Nov 202115 Blakes Road Felpham PO22 7EE
Received 14 Oct 2020Land at Phase 1A Oldlands Farm Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NN
Received 14 Oct 202039 Beehive Lane Ferring BN12 5NR
Received 19 Apr 201738 School Hill Findon
Received 6 Jul 2007Records 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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