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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Chichester District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
219 approved · 466 refused · 315 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Oct 2021 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Longstones Westerton Lane Westerton Chichester West Sussex PO18 0PG
Received 1 Jul 2024Old House Farm Itchenor Road West Itchenor Chichester West Sussex PO20 7DH
Received 1 Jul 2024Flats 1-17 St Wilfreds Place High Street Selsey Chichester West Sussex PO20 0QG
Received 1 Jul 2024Land At Ounces Barn Halnaker Boxgrove Chichester West Sussex PO18 0NP
Received 6 Jun 20242 Crane Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1LH
Received 1 Jul 2024Chichester Business Park City Fields Way Tangmere West Sussex
Received 1 Jul 2024Land South Of Clappers Lane Clappers Lane Earnley West Sussex
Received 1 Jul 2024Oakwood Business Park Funtington Road East Ashling West Sussex
Received 1 Jul 2024Nuthatch 6 Council Cottages Shillinglee Road Plaistow Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 0PQ
Received 1 Jul 2024Westways Crooked Lane Birdham Chichester West Sussex PO20 7HB
Received 1 Jul 2024Land West Of Centurion Way And West Of Old Broyle Road Old Broyle Road Chichester West Sussex
Received 1 Jul 2024231 - 233 Main Road Southbourne Emsworth West Sussex PO10 8JD
Received 2 Jul 202412 Clydesdale Avenue Chichester West Sussex PO19 7PW
Received 2 Jul 2024Walthurst Farmhouse Walthurst Lane Loxwood Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 0AD
Received 2 Jul 2024Carthagena Farm Cottage Bell Lane Birdham Chichester West Sussex PO20 7HY
Received 1 Jul 2024Westerlies Shipton Green Lane West Itchenor Chichester West Sussex PO20 7BZ
Received 2 Jul 20249 Turnbull Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 7LY
Received 2 Jul 2024Mayflower Cottage Village Road Kirdford Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 0LX
Received 2 Jul 202471 Gainsborough Drive Selsey Chichester West Sussex PO20 0HH
Received 2 Jul 2024Land South West Of Willets Way Willetts Way Loxwood West Sussex
Received 2 Jul 20247 Mountwood Road Southbourne Emsworth West Sussex PO10 8NA
Received 1 Jul 2024New Park Community Association New Park Centre New Park Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 7XY
Received 3 Jul 2024The Oaks Main Road Nutbourne Chichester West Sussex PO18 8RL
Received 3 Jul 202457 East Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1HL
Received 3 Jul 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Chichester 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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