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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.
1,445 approved · 129 refused · 62 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Laurel Cottage Horsham Road Rusper West Sussex RH12 4PR
Received 13 Mar 202619 Billingshurst Road Broadbridge Heath West Sussex RH12 3LB
Received 13 Mar 2026Land East of Coolham Road West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2LT
Received 13 Mar 202611 Britten Close Horsham West Sussex RH13 6RZ
Received 16 Mar 202626 Heydon Way Broadbridge Heath West Sussex RH12 3GN
Received 16 Mar 2026Stumbleholme Farm Rusper Road Ifield West Sussex RH11 0LQ
Received 16 Mar 2026The Chapel Holiday Let Old House Manor Estate Cowfold Road Coolham West Sussex RH13 8QL
Received 16 Mar 2026Bayley Paddock Mill Lane Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8JU
Received 16 Mar 20268 Chanctonbury Ashington West Sussex RH20 3QE
Received 16 Mar 2026Station Road Cowfold Horsham West Sussex RH13 8QZ
Received 10 Mar 2026Millfields Farm Horsham Road Rusper West Sussex RH12 4PU
Received 10 Mar 20261 Farm Close Warnham West Sussex RH12 3QT
Received 16 Mar 2026Land North of Glebe Farm and Kings Barn Lane Kings Barn Lane Steyning West Sussex
Received 11 Mar 2026Mill Farm Mill Lane Itchingfield West Sussex RH13 0NP
Received 16 Mar 202610 Cook Way Broadbridge Heath West Sussex RH12 3US
Received 16 Mar 202610 Vernon Close Horsham West Sussex RH12 4EE
Received 16 Mar 2026Bentons Cottage, Bentons Cottage Office Bentons Lane Dial Post West Sussex RH13 8NP
Received 16 Mar 2026High Beech Farm Hammerpond Road Plummers Plain West Sussex RH13 6PE
Received 16 Mar 202635 Arun Valley Way Faygate West Sussex RH12 0BE
Received 16 Mar 2026Land at Sumners Ponds Chapel Road Barns Green West Sussex
Received 17 Mar 2026Oakfield Coolham Road Coolham West Sussex RH13 8QE
Received 17 Mar 20268 Heather Close Horsham West Sussex RH12 5XD
Received 17 Mar 2026Greenacres New Barn Lane Henfield West Sussex BN5 9SJ
Received 6 Mar 202612A Tesla Engineering Ltd Water Lane Storrington Pulborough West Sussex RH20 3EA
Received 11 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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