Understanding planning · 13 min read
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.
1,397 approved · 128 refused · 61 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Haynes Littleworth Lane Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8JF
Received 24 Sept 2025Mowbray Development Site, Old Holbrook, Horsham, West Sussex
Received 24 Sept 2025Pound Place Mill Lane Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8JU
Received 29 Sept 2025Byways Billingshurst Road Coolham West Sussex RH13 8QN
Received 3 Oct 2025Agricultural Training Centre New Barn Bungalow Yard New Barn Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9SJ
Received 11 Aug 20257 London Road Henfield West Sussex BN5 9JJ
Received 7 Oct 202526 South Street Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8EL
Received 7 Oct 2025Spring Farm Woodland Lane Colgate West Sussex RH13 6HU
Received 9 Oct 20253-5 West Street Storrington West Sussex RH20 4DY
Received 14 Oct 20253-5 West Street Storrington West Sussex RH20 4DY
Received 14 Oct 2025Woodfords Shipley Road Southwater Horsham West Sussex RH13 9BQ
Received 17 Oct 2025Johnsons Farm Juggs Lane West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2JS
Received 20 Oct 202522 Underwood Road Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9FE
Received 21 Oct 2025The Slips West End Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9RG
Received 21 Oct 2025Long Wells Vineyard Marches Road Warnham West Sussex RH12 3SL
Received 24 Oct 2025The Hermitage 71 High Street Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9QP
Received 27 Oct 2025Cambridge House High Street Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8HP
Received 28 Oct 202513 Richmond Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2EG
Received 30 Oct 202523 Garden Place Hawthorn Close Horsham West Sussex
Received 21 Oct 20259 Larch End West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2QE
Received 3 Nov 2025Steyning Grammar School Spur Rock Road Storrington West Sussex RH20 3AA
Received 4 Nov 20257 Heath Close Mannings Heath West Sussex RH13 6EE
Received 5 Nov 2025Steyning Grammar Upper School Shooting Field Steyning West Sussex BN44 3RX
Received 5 Nov 2025The Lawns London Road Ashington West Sussex RH20 3JR
Received 5 Nov 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 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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