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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.
1,438 approved · 129 refused · 62 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Holly House Worthing Road Southwater West Sussex RH13 9DT
Received 6 Mar 2026Former Longfield House East Street Rusper West Sussex RH12 4RB
Received 6 Mar 202644 York Close Southwater West Sussex RH13 9XJ
Received 6 Mar 2026Sainsburys Supermarket 7 Worthing Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 1SQ
Received 6 Mar 2026Brook House Nuthurst Road Maplehurst West Sussex RH13 6RB
Received 9 Mar 2026Brook House Nuthurst Road Maplehurst West Sussex RH13 6RB
Received 9 Mar 2026The Old Stables Guildford Road Rudgwick West Sussex RH12 3JB
Received 9 Mar 20262 Grebe Crescent Horsham West Sussex RH13 6ED
Received 9 Mar 202615 Woodside Close Shermanbury West Sussex RH13 8HH
Received 9 Mar 202654 Wallis Way Horsham West Sussex RH13 6ST
Received 9 Mar 2026Land North of East Street Rusper West Sussex
Received 9 Mar 202618 Bethune Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5JP
Received 3 Mar 2026Phase 2 Mowbray Development Site Old Holbrook Horsham West Sussex
Received 3 Mar 2026Phase 1 Mowbray Deveopment Site Old Holbrook Horsham West Sussex
Received 3 Mar 2026Chanctonbury Nurseries Rectory Lane Ashington Pulborough West Sussex RH20 3AS
Received 4 Mar 2026Land To The Northwest of Coach House Blackhouse Road Colgate Horsham West Sussex RH13 6HS
Received 9 Mar 2026Spring Copse Business Park Stane Street Slinfold West Sussex RH13 0SZ
Received 9 Mar 202631 West Street Storrington West Sussex RH20 4DZ
Received 10 Mar 2026Horsham Golf Park Denne Park Horsham West Sussex RH13 0AX
Received 10 Mar 20266 Norfolk Cottages High Street Steyning West Sussex BN44 3GT
Received 10 Mar 202613 Friday Street Warnham West Sussex RH12 3QY
Received 10 Mar 2026Home Farm House St Leonards Forest Horsham West Sussex RH13 6PH
Received 10 Mar 202622 Oaklands Park Emms Lane Brooks Green West Sussex RH13 0BB
Received 10 Mar 202667 Shelley Drive Broadbridge Heath West Sussex RH12 3NU
Received 10 Mar 2026Records 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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