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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.
1,455 approved · 129 refused · 63 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Furzefield Farm Honeybridge Lane Ashurst West Sussex BN44 3AW
Received 17 Apr 2026River Terrace Ridgehurst Drive Horsham West Sussex RH12 1EF
Received 17 Apr 2026Meadowhurst Lyons Road Slinfold West Sussex RH13 0QS
Received 17 Apr 2026The Old Dairy and The Granary Crosby Farm Lyons Road Slinfold Horsham West Sussex RH13 0RX
Received 17 Apr 202614 Farm Avenue Horsham West Sussex RH12 2JY
Received 17 Apr 202622 Fay Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2LG
Received 20 Apr 20265 Shelley Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2JH
Received 20 Apr 202678 Guildford Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 1LY
Received 20 Apr 20263 School Hill Storrington West Sussex RH20 4NA
Received 20 Apr 2026Rylands Loxwood Road Rudgwick Horsham West Sussex RH12 3DW
Received 1 Apr 2026Duckmoor Farm Wooddale Lane Billingshurst RH14 9DZ
Received 9 Apr 2026Mowbray Development Site Old Holbrook Horsham West Sussex
Received 13 Apr 2026Hawthorns Bar Lane Southwater West Sussex RH13 9DL
Received 20 Apr 2026Searle Industrial Estate Parsonage Way Horsham West Sussex RH12 4AQ
Received 17 Apr 2026New Orchard New Hall Lane Small Dole Henfield West Sussex BN5 9YH
Received 17 Apr 2026Woodfords Shipley Road Southwater West Sussex RH13 9BQ
Received 20 Apr 2026Woodfords Shipley Road Southwater West Sussex RH13 9BQ
Received 20 Apr 20268 Lakers Meadow Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9NP
Received 20 Apr 2026Cedar Cottage Sandygate Lane Lower Beeding West Sussex RH13 6LR
Received 21 Apr 202637 Furze Common Road Thakeham West Sussex RH20 3EG
Received 21 Apr 2026Public Open Space At Charrington Way Broadbridge Heath West Sussex RH12 3TL
Received 21 Apr 20267 Sainsburys Supermarket, Car Park Worthing Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 1SQ
Received 21 Apr 2026Aerial Mast Riverside Farm Guildford Road Rudgwick West Sussex
Received 20 Apr 2026Rampion 2 Offshore Windfarm Onshore Cable Transmission Works - Climping To Bolney National Grid Substation Compound Land West of Kent Street Cowfold West Sussex
Received 21 Apr 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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