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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.
1,460 approved · 132 refused · 63 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
32 High Street Steyning West Sussex BN44 3YE
Received 24 Apr 2026Cheeleys Burford Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5SR
Received 24 Apr 2026Cheeleys Burford Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5SR
Received 24 Apr 2026Cheeleys Burford Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5SR
Received 24 Apr 202624A Friday Street Warnham Horsham West Sussex RH12 3QX
Received 17 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 24 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 24 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 24 Apr 2026Platts Corner Petrol Filling Station Newbridge Road Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9HY
Received 24 Apr 20262 Oak Close Storrington West Sussex RH20 3PZ
Received 24 Apr 2026Land Off Old Crawley Road Faygate West Sussex
Received 27 Apr 2026Rustlings Nyetimber Copse West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2NE
Received 27 Apr 2026Green Hedges Church Lane Ashington West Sussex RH20 3JX
Received 27 Apr 2026Fairoaks Winterpit Lane Mannings Heath West Sussex RH13 6LX
Received 27 Apr 2026Park Farm Wheatsheaf Road Woodmancote Henfield West Sussex BN5 9BA
Received 27 Apr 2026121 Shooting Field Steyning West Sussex BN44 3SW
Received 27 Apr 2026Camomile Barn Emms Lane Brooks Green West Sussex RH13 0TR
Received 27 Apr 202639 Coombe Drove Bramber West Sussex BN44 3PW
Received 27 Apr 20268 The Brook Southwater West Sussex RH13 9UY
Received 27 Apr 20269 Bodiam Close Southwater West Sussex RH13 9XW
Received 27 Apr 2026The Weald School Station Road Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9RY
Received 22 Apr 2026Kilnwood Vale Crawley Road Faygate West Sussex RH12 0AQ
Received 27 Apr 20262 Chene Colline Chase 87 Lower Street Pulborough West Sussex RH20 2AX
Received 27 Apr 2026Taintfield Farm House Kings Lane Cowfold West Sussex
Received 27 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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