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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
28,079 approved · 4,730 refused · 1,709 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Hillside Cottages Long Furlong Patching
Received 18 May 2005Highland Avenue Bognor PO21 2BJ
Received 9 Mar 2017Weavers Cottage Weavers Hill Angmering BN16 4BP
Received 9 Mar 20216 Albert Road Rustington BN16 3JS
Received 24 Apr 2012Camelia Court Shelbridge Road Slindon Common
Received 23 Mar 200624 Shirley Close Rustington BN16 2EG
Received 10 May 2022Friends Meeting House 23 Church Street Littlehampton BN17 5EL
Received 26 Nov 20186 Duncton Road Rustington
Received 17 Sept 2007Land North of Toddington Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PP
Received 9 Nov 201653 Kingsway Aldwick PO21 4DN
Received 14 Jul 201448 London Road Bognor Regis PO21 1PX
Received 15 Jun 2015Inner Court Norfolk Square Bognor Regis
Received 14 Jul 20038 Arun Way Aldwick Bay Estate PO21 4HF
Received 25 Jun 2019Dogwood House The Street Clapham
Received 4 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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