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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 Horsham District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
1,392 approved · 128 refused · 61 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jan 1930 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Amberley Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 4LN
Received 1 Jan 1930Berkeley Homes Development Site Worthing Road Southwater RH13 9BT
Received 9 Dec 2019Woodhouse Farm Wheatsheaf Road Woodmancote West Sussex
Received 1 Oct 2021The Tipsy Fox Worthing Road Southwater Horsham West Sussex RH13 9HG
Received 9 Mar 2022The Tipsy Fox Worthing Road Southwater Horsham West Sussex RH13 9HG
Received 9 Mar 2022Land Adjacent Railway Cottages And Pulborough Railway Station Stopham Road Pulborough West Sussex RH20 1DP
Received 1 Aug 2022Oakwood Farm East Street West Chiltington Pulborough West Sussex RH20 2LU
Received 26 Aug 2022Plot 1 Steel Framed Barn Oaklands Coltstaple Lane Horsham West Sussex RH13 9BB
Received 11 Jan 2023Sandgate Nursery West End Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9RD
Received 2 Feb 2023Land To The West of Ashington C of E School Park Lane Ashington West Sussex
Received 3 Mar 2023Jandola New Hall Lane Small Dole West Sussex BN5 9YH
Received 4 Apr 2023Kilnwood Vale Development Phase 3EDEFG Crawley Road Faygate West Sussex
Received 25 Sept 2023Alderbury Church Hill Pulborough West Sussex RH20 1AB
Received 20 Jun 2024Berkeley Homes Development Site Phase 3.2 and 4 Worthing Road Southwater West Sussex
Received 30 Jul 2024Browns Farm Hollands Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9QY
Received 9 Aug 2024Scrag Copse Farm Prestwood Lane Ifield West Sussex RH11 0LA
Received 3 Sept 2024Brookside Farm Dagbrook Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9SH
Received 7 Oct 2024New Place Nurseries London Road Pulborough West Sussex RH20 1AT
Received 28 Oct 2024Land at Campsfield Linfield Close Southwater West Sussex RH13 9FR
Received 22 Jan 2025The Hermitage Tower Hill Horsham West Sussex RH13 0JS
Received 24 Jan 202578 High Street Steyning West Sussex BN44 3RD
Received 25 Feb 2025Stonehouse Farm Handcross Road Plummers Plain West Sussex RH13 6NZ
Received 17 Mar 2025Hop Oast Park and Ride Worthing Road Horsham West Sussex
Received 18 Mar 2025Land Off Northlands Lane Storrington 1 Field Storrington RH20 3EZ
Received 24 Mar 2025Records 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 Horsham 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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