1. Your council

    1. Council information
      1. Find your councillor
      2. Arun District Councillors
      3. Town and parish councils
      4. Your MP
      5. Our management teams
      6. Constitution
      7. Maps
      8. Code of Conduct
        1. Members' Code of Conduct 2021
      9. Council vision and performance
        1. Productivity Plan
      10. Registers of members' interests
    2. Facts and figures
      1. Financial information
        1. Fees and charges 2023-24
        2. Fees and charges 2022-23 HTML version
      2. District and population
      3. Payments over £500
      4. Local government transparency code
      5. Internal audit
        1. Anti-Fraud, Corruption and Bribery Policy
      6. Publication scheme
        1. Licensing Service Standards
        2. Occupational Health & Safety Service Standards
        3. Pay Policy Statement Financial Year 2024 to 2025
    3. Council meetings
    4. Policies and procedures
      1. Privacy policy
      2. Data protection
        1. Records Retention and Disposal Policy
        2. Data Protection Policy
      3. Freedom of information
      4. Compliments and complaints
        1. Feedback and complaints policy
        2. Unreasonable behaviour policy
      5. Equality and diversity
        1. Equalities Monitoring Report 2022-2023
        2. Facility Time Reporting for 2022 to 2023
      6. Fraud
        1. Whistleblowing policy
    5. News
      1. Arun Times
      2. Arun District Council mobile app
      3. Newsletter
      4. Latest news
    6. Jobs
      1. Guide to applying for a job with us
      2. Why work for Arun?
      3. Our values

  2. Your community

    1. Flooding information
    2. Community safety
      1. Antisocial behaviour
        1. Report ASB
        2. Make a noise complaint
        3. Environmental harm
        4. Antisocial driving
        5. Report licensed premises
        6. Support for the homeless
        7. Drug litter
        8. Antisocial Behaviour (ASB) Case Review
      2. Domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking
        1. Getting help
        2. Domestic abuse and children
        3. Stalking
        4. Housing advice
        5. Pet fostering services
        6. Worried about your behaviour
      3. Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults
        1. Mental health
        2. Safeguarding policy
        3. Adults social care
        4. Children and young people
      4. Modern slavery
      5. Community wardens
      6. Safer Arun Partnership and Joint Action Group
      7. Suicide awareness and prevention
      8. Public Space Protection Order
        1. Public Spaces Protection Order Arun District 2023
          1. PSPO 2023 - 2026 Enforcement Information and Guidance
      9. Scam alerts
      10. Help and advice
    3. Cemeteries
      1. Cemeteries regulations
      2. Exclusive right of burial - your rights and responsibilities
      3. Memorials
        1. Memorial information
        2. Memorial safety
      4. Cemeteries service application forms
      5. Transfer of ownership
      6. Update your records
      7. Purchasing a grave
      8. Our cemeteries
      9. Fees and charges for cemeteries
    4. Lifeline
      1. Products
      2. The digital switchover
      3. Lifeline - Contact us
      4. How the service works
      5. Make a referral
    5. Windmill Entertainment Centre
    6. Arun Wellbeing
    7. Armed Forces Community Covenant
    8. Homeless or at risk of homelessness
    9. Assets of Community Value
      1. Assets of Community Value Policy
    10. Ukrainian refugee resettlement
    11. Dove Lodge

  3. Streets and parking

    1. Report a parking issue
    2. 2 hour free parking disc
      1. 2025 2-hour parking disc scheme
        1. Virtual parking disc 2025 terms and conditions
      2. Bognor Regis 2 hour free parking disc
      3. Littlehampton 2 hour free parking disc
      4. Activating a disc stay on the MiPermit App
    3. On-Street Integrated Parking Strategy 2022-2027
    4. Off Street Parking Strategy 2021-2026
    5. Electric vehicle (EV) charging points
    6. Car parks annual reports
    7. Road closures for events
    8. Parking permits
      1. Charity non-resident permits
      2. Non-resident permits
      3. Visitor permits
      4. Car park permits
      5. Healthcare and carer permits
      6. Resident permits
    9. Car parks
      1. Arundel car parks
      2. Littlehampton car parks
      3. Bognor Regis car parks
    10. Parking dispensations
    11. Parking tickets
    12. Blue Badge parking

  4. Leisure and tourism

    1. AccessAble
    2. Beach huts
    3. Events
      1. Apply to hold an event
        1. Events and activities upon the Place St Maur - requirements and guidance for organisers
      2. Running outdoor classes and activities
      3. Filming in Arun
        1. Filming and photographic policy
      4. Street parties and town centre events
      5. What's on
      6. Event safety and the Arun Safety Advisory Group
        1. Arun Safety Advisory Group (SAG)
        2. Documents you’ll need to provide
      7. Guidance notes for filling out the event application form
      8. Deposits
      9. Balloon and sky lantern releases
      10. Event maps
      11. Event promotion
    4. The Long Bench Project
    5. Leisure centres
      1. Active Communities Arun on Facebook
      2. Arun Leisure Centre
      3. Bersted Park Community Centre
      4. Littlehampton Wave
      5. The Windmill Entertainment Centre
    6. Outdoor recreation
    7. Our beaches
      1. Beach safety
      2. Know before you go
      3. Our beach rules
      4. Shingle and seaweed
    8. Parks, play areas and nature reserves
      1. Bersted Brooks Masterplan
      2. Biodiversity
      3. Celebration of Life tree seat
      4. Play area improvement works
      5. Community groups
      6. Community orchards
      7. Green Flag Awards
      8. Local nature reserves
      9. Our parks
      10. Play areas and skate parks
    9. Sussex by the Sea
    10. Visitor Strategy 2023-2028

  5. Your environment

    1. Damaged bus shelters
    2. Coastal protection
      1. Pagham coastal protection
      2. Current coast protection plans and strategies
      3. Living and building on the coast
    3. Water
      1. Watercourses – Common Law rights and riparian responsibilities
      2. Reporting drainage problems
      3. Drainage planning consultations
      4. Land drainage consent
      5. Private water supplies
      6. Lidsey Waste Water Treatment Catchment Area
    4. Illegal occupation of land by travellers
    5. Pest control
    6. Climate change
      1. Climate action and biodiversity work plan 2023 to 2024
      2. Carbon neutral strategy
      3. Climate action biodiversity work plan
    7. Asbestos
    8. Clean streets
      1. Community and voluntary group clean ups
      2. Report it
      3. Litter
      4. Fines
    9. Dogs
      1. What to do if your dog is attacked
      2. Dealing with dangerous dogs and dog attacks
      3. Microchipping your dog
    10. Pollution, noise and other nuisances
      1. Air quality
        1. Air Quality Strategy 2023
        2. Bonfire smoke
      2. Artificial light - complaints
      3. Filthy or infested properties
      4. Land contamination
      5. Noise complaints
        1. Noisy neighbours
      6. Nuisance complaints FOI requests
      7. Odour complaints
      8. Overgrown or rubbish filled gardens
      9. Wild birds
      10. Water quality
        1. Bathing water quality at Bognor Regis (Aldwick) - Environment Agency
    11. Trees
      1. Tree Planting Strategy 2021-2031
      2. Selecting a tree surgeon
      3. Dangerous trees
      4. Private trees and hedges
      5. Council owned trees
    12. Public toilets

  6. Housing

    1. Housing strategies and policies
      1. Housing strategies
      2. Housing policies
        1. Asset management
        2. Compliance
        3. Housing options and allocations
        4. Leasehold
        5. Repairs
        6. Tenancy management
    2. Energy efficiency
      1. HECA report 2023
      2. Energy Efficiency and Fuel Poverty Strategy 2020-2025
    3. Housing consultations
      1. Draft Mutual Exchange Policy
    4. Home energy visiting service
    5. Private tenants
      1. Illegal eviction and harassment
      2. Damp and disrepair issues
        1. How to report a damp or disrepair issue to us
        2. Damp issues
        3. Condensation and mould growth
      3. Information on privately rented accommodation
    6. Empty homes - Unlock the potential
      1. Empty homes financial assistance information guide
      2. Empty Homes Strategy 2023 - 2028
    7. Leaseholders
      1. Section 20 guidance
      2. Repairs for leaseholders
      3. Changes needing permission for leaseholders
      4. Service charges
      5. Leaseholder handbook
    8. Adapting your home
    9. Landlords
      1. Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard Regulations (MEES)
      2. Landlords' forum
      3. Houses in multiple occupation (HMO)
      4. Landlord accreditation scheme
        1. Chichester and Arun Landlord Accreditation Scheme Standards
      5. Apply for a mandatory HMO licence (5 or more persons)
        1. Additional HMO licensing consultation 2023
          1. Survey results and feedback to the additional HMO licensing consultation
        2. Standards for houses in multiple occupation
          1. References
          2. Types of houses in multiple occupation
          3. Appendix A – Ventilation guidance
          4. Gas, carbon monoxide, electrical safety and Energy Performance Certificates
          5. Appendix A – Insulation guidance
          6. Room sizes
          7. Appendix A – Acceptable heating
          8. Shared kitchen facilities
          9. General requirements
          10. Kitchen facilities within bedsits
          11. Cleaning and disposal of rubbish
          12. Washing facilities and bathroom requirements
          13. Fire precautionary facilities and fire safety
          14. Heating requirements
      6. Safety standards
        1. Housing Health and Safety Rating Scheme (HHSRS)
        2. Fire Safety
        3. Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms
        4. Electrical safety standards
    10. Finding a home
      1. First Homes
      2. Local lettings plans
      3. Community Land Trusts
      4. Homeless or at risk of homelessness
        1. Advice about homelessness
        2. Rough sleeping support services
        3. Housing advice portal
        4. Emergency housing
        5. Debt advice
        6. Professionals only - duty to refer
        7. Housing and homelessness strategy 2019 to 2023
      5. Swap your council home
      6. Apply for council housing
    11. Council tenants
      1. Arun from Home housing portal
      2. Arun from Home housing portal
      3. Our performance
      4. Estate inspections
      5. Arun at Home
      6. Tenants Community Grant Fund
      7. Resident engagement
      8. Buying your council home
      9. Rent a garage
      10. Rent an allotment
      11. Reporting problems
        1. Damp, mould and condensation
        2. Antisocial behaviour for council tenants
        3. Housing fraud
      12. Your tenancy
        1. Tenant handbook
        2. Changes to your tenancy
        3. Annual gas checks
        4. Improvements and alterations to your home
      13. Rent
        1. Rent increases
        2. Problems paying your rent
        3. Pay your rent
        4. Check your rent balance
      14. Repairs
    12. Arun Homefinder

  7. Elections

    1. July 2024 elections
    2. Voter photo ID
    3. Upcoming elections and referendums
    4. Register to vote
    5. Ways to vote
    6. Electoral register
    7. Annual canvass
    8. Arun District Council elections
    9. Town and parish council elections
      1. Arun district town and parish council seats
    10. West Sussex County Council elections
    11. Work with us
      1. Postal vote opener job description
      2. Presiding officer job description
      3. Poll clerk job description
    12. General elections
    13. Referendums
    14. Neighbourhood plan referendums
    15. Previous results

  8. Benefits

    1. Benefits data and information requests
    2. Evidence for your claim
    3. Arun District Council Discretionary Housing Payment Policy
    4. Claim reviews
    5. Local Housing Allowance
    6. Citizen Access
    7. Childcare costs
    8. Helping someone with a claim
    9. Discretionary Housing Payment
    10. Self-employed
    11. Non-dependants
    12. How to appeal
    13. Housing Benefit overpayments
    14. Bedroom tax
    15. Benefits information for landlords
      1. Landlord Portal user guide
    16. Report a change for your benefits claim
    17. Benefit cap
    18. Payment to Landlord Policy
    19. Council Tax Hardship Relief West Sussex Guidelines 2021/22
    20. Universal Credit
    21. Housing Benefit
    22. Council Tax Reduction Discretionary Relief Policy

  9. Council Tax

    1. Helping someone with their Council Tax or Business Rates
    2. Copy bills and proof of residency
    3. Council Tax and freeman on the land
    4. Empty properties FOI enquiries
    5. Register for Council Tax
    6. Recovery policy
    7. Pay your bill
    8. Council Tax discretionary relief guidelines
    9. Explanatory notes for Council Tax 2021-2022
    10. Liability order issued for Council Tax
    11. Pay your Council Tax or claim a refund
    12. Explanatory notes for Council Tax
    13. Bands and charges
    14. Explanatory notes for Council Tax 2022-2023
    15. Court summons for Council Tax
    16. Your account
    17. Discounts and exemptions
      1. Single resident discount
      2. Mentally impaired people
      3. Carers and people receiving care
      4. Student discount
        1. Student review
      5. Disabled people
      6. Empty properties
      7. Other discounts
      8. Council Tax Reduction
    18. How your Council Tax is spent
      1. Our budget 2024-2025
    19. Report a change to our Council Tax department
    20. Report a death
    21. If you do not pay your Council Tax overview
    22. Help to pay your Council Tax
    23. Understanding your bill
    24. Who should pay Council Tax

  10. Bins, waste and recycling

    1. Recycling Centres
    2. Check your bin day
    3. What goes in your bin
      1. General rubbish
      2. Green bin with blue lid - recycling
      3. Brown bin - garden waste
      4. Medical rubbish
      5. Bin collection problems
    4. Missed bin collection
    5. Unwanted items
    6. Garden waste
    7. Request a new recycling bin
    8. Home composting
    9. 1, 2, 3 food waste collection trial
    10. Other places to recycle
    11. Clinical waste and sharps collections
    12. Electrical recycling

  11. Business and licensing

    1. Business rates
      1. Business Rates Explanatory Notes 2021-2022
      2. Award of Mandatory and Discretionary Rate Relief policy
      3. Business Rates Explanatory Notes 2023-2024
      4. Liability order issued for business rates
      5. Register or tell us about a move
      6. Pay your business rates
      7. View your business rates account
      8. Court summons for business rates
      9. If you do not pay your business rates/BID levy overview
      10. Help to pay your business rates
      11. Rates discounts and exemptions
      12. Business rates explained
      13. Business rates FOI requests
    2. Licensing
      1. Licensing Subcommittee - Review
      2. Licensing Subcommittee - Contested
      3. Gambling
      4. Other licences
        1. Busking
        2. Pedlar’s licence
        3. Public events in our district
        4. Busking licence
        5. Child performance and child work permits
        6. Boat licensing
        7. House to house collections
        8. Hypnotism
        9. Metal detecting
        10. Scrap metal
        11. Sex establishment
        12. Skin piercing
        13. Small society lotteries
        14. Street collections
        15. Street trading
          1. Street trading and markets policy
      5. Alcohol and entertainment
        1. Statement of licensing policy
        2. Guidance on alcohol licensing representations
        3. Club premises certificate
        4. Late night refreshment
        5. Premises licence
        6. Personal licence
        7. Temporary event notice
        8. Licensing pre-application advice
        9. Alcohol licensee toolkit
      6. Taxi and private hire licensing
        1. Taxi and private hire vehicles
          1. Taxi and private hire vehicles - garage tests
        2. Taxi driver licences
        3. Operator licences
        4. DBS checks
        5. Using a taxi
        6. Report an accident
        7. Taxi complaints
        8. Taxi advertising
      7. Animal licensing
        1. Animal licensing general advice
        2. Provision of boarding for dogs
        3. The Animal Welfare Regulations 2018
        4. Zoo licence
        5. Animal boarding
        6. Home boarding
        7. Doggy day care
        8. Dog breeding
        9. Sale of animals for pets
        10. Licence to hire out horses
        11. Animals for exhibition
        12. Dangerous wild animals (DWA)
      8. Caravan and camping sites
        1. Buying a mobile home
      9. Pavement licensing
    3. Food and public health
      1. Environmental health enforcement policy
      2. Industrial air pollution
        1. SWIP Consultation
      3. Food premises registration
      4. Running a food business
      5. Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
      6. Health and safety advice
      7. Food safety complaints
      8. Foreign bodies in food
      9. Cooling towers
      10. Port health
      11. Accident reporting and RIDDOR
    4. Business support
      1. Tourism business support
      2. Skills, training and education
      3. Business grants and funding
      4. Business development
    5. Commercial property to let and business opportunities
    6. Business waste

  12. Home

  13. Planning, building and regeneration

    1. Planning application searches
    2. Planning permission
      1. Find out if you need planning permission
      2. Apply for planning permission
        1. Notes for completing the online Regularisation Certificate form
        2. Notes for completing the online Building Notice form
      3. What happens next
      4. Pre-application advice
      5. Tree works and preservation
      6. How to appeal a planning decision
      7. Report a breach of planning regulations
      8. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
        1. Annual CIL Rate Summary
        2. How the money is spent
        3. Exemptions from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
        4. Calculate how much you need to pay
      9. Planning Committee
      10. Search for a planning application
        1. Planning application search
          1. Planning online document viewer guide
        2. View weekly lists
        3. Planning application finder
        4. Comment on a planning application
        5. Planning history search
      11. Consultation on the Planning Local Validation Requirements Lists
    3. Conservation, protection and heritage
      1. Non-designated heritage assets
      2. Buildings and structures of character
      3. Village design statements
      4. Heritage at Risk
      5. Listed buildings
      6. Conservation areas
        1. Conservation area consultations July 2024
        2. Conservation Area Advisory Committee
    4. Building control and regulations
      1. Changes to building regulations from October 2023
      2. Interim Building Regulations Full Plans Application (from 1 October 2023)
      3. Building Regulation update: Transitional period for new standards ends 14 June 2023
      4. Demolitions
      5. Dangerous structures
      6. Expired private building control companies
      7. LABC partnerships
      8. Regularisation certificates
      9. Make an application
        1. Full plans application
        2. Building notice application
      10. Site inspections
      11. Search for building regulations applications
      12. Competent person scheme
      13. Exempt work
      14. Approved documents
      15. Unauthorised work
      16. Building control service standards
    5. Regeneration and economic development
      1. UK Shared Prosperity Fund
        1. UKSPF Guidance for bidders
      2. Levelling Up Fund Littlehampton and Bognor Regis
        1. Levelling up fund Alexandra Theatre HTML version
        2. Littlehampton seafront design HTML version
      3. Employment initiatives
      4. Partnership working
      5. Development sites and opportunities
      6. Economic strategy and delivery
      7. Regeneration in Bognor Regis
        1. Sunken Gardens
          1. Sunken Gardens Summary of public consultation results HTML version
        2. Bognor Regis Regeneration external website
        3. Place St Maur
        4. Enterprise Bognor Regis
      8. Regeneration in Littlehampton
        1. Littlehampton Seafront Design Scheme
        2. Angmering Sports Hub Project – Palmer Road
        3. Littlehampton town centre public realm improvements
          1. Consultation for High Street loading time restrictions
          2. Addressing your concerns (Littlehampton improvements)
          3. Littlehampton town centre public realm improvements FAQs
        4. Pier Road consultation 2022
        5. Littlehampton regeneration external website
    6. Planning policy
      1. Arun Local Plan Update 2023-2041
      2. Gypsy and traveller evidence
      3. Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document (DPD)
      4. Parish briefings
      5. Local Development Orders (LDO) and Community Right to Build
      6. Other activities
      7. Planning policy consultations
      8. Duty to co-operate
      9. Statement of Community Involvement (SCI)
        1. Statement of Community Involvement 2023
      10. Evidence and monitoring
        1. Monitoring reports
        2. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) examination
        3. Employment
        4. Flood risk
        5. Gypsies and Travellers
        6. Housing
          1. Housing land supply
        7. Infrastructure and funding
        8. Landscape and Biodiversity
        9. Leisure, recreation and culture
        10. Renewable energy and climate change
        11. Retail
        12. Settlement sustainability
        13. Transport
      11. Supplementary planning information
        1. Changing Places Toilets guidance
      12. HELAA, brownfield land and self build registers
        1. Brownfield Land Register (Part 1) December 2023
        2. Brownfield Land Register (Part 1) 2022
      13. Our Local Plan
        1. Local Development Scheme (LDS)
          1. Arun District Council Local Development Scheme 2023-2025
          2. Arun District Council Local Development Scheme 2023-2025
      14. Neighbourhood planning
        1. South Downs National Park Local Planning Authority
        2. Background information
        3. CRTBO Environmental Assessment Determinations
        4. SEA screening decisions
        5. Updates, guides and information
        6. Made plans
        7. Aldingbourne neighbourhood development plan
        8. Aldingbourne neighbourhood development plan 2
        9. Angmering neighbourhood development plan
        10. Arundel neighbourhood development plan
        11. Arundel neighbourhood development plan 2
        12. Barnham and Eastergate neighbourhood development plan
        13. Barnham and Eastergate neighbourhood development plan 2
        14. Bersted neighbourhood development plan
        15. Bognor Regis neighbourhood development plan
        16. Climping neighbourhood development plan
        17. East Preston neighbourhood development plan
        18. Felpham neighbourhood development plan
        19. Felpham neighbourhood development plan 2
        20. Ferring neighbourhood development plan
        21. Ford neighbourhood development plan
        22. Ford neighbourhood development plan 2
        23. Kingston neighbourhood development plan
        24. Littlehampton neighbourhood development plan
        25. Lyminster and Crossbush neighbourhood development plan
        26. Middleton-on-Sea neighbourhood development plan
        27. Pagham neighbourhood development plan
        28. Rustington neighbourhood development plan
        29. Walberton neighbourhood development plan
        30. Walberton neighbourhood development plan 2
        31. Yapton neighbourhood development plan 2
          1. Yapton Neighbourhood Development Plan 2 Publicising the Plan
        32. Yapton neighbourhood development plan
      15. Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) adoption
    7. Developer contributions and obligations
      1. Infrastructure Funding Statement and Developer contributions
      2. Planning obligations (section 106)
    8. Local Land Charges
      1. Information on Local Land Charges and searches
      2. Solicitors and conveyancers
      3. Personal searches
    9. Strategic development sites
      1. Angmering
      2. Barnham, Eastergate, Westergate (BEW)
      3. Bersted
      4. Bognor Regis
      5. Climping
      6. Fontwell
      7. Ford
      8. Littlehampton
      9. Pagham
      10. Yapton
      11. Planning conditions and obligations check
      12. Strategic developments district map
      13. Rampion 2 Wind Farm
    10. Street naming and numbering
    11. Contact planning
    12. Planning Applications customer advice note and publishing decisions