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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.
1,496 approved · 133 refused · 65 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jan 1930 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Burny Bank Barrow Hill Henfield West Sussex BN5 9DN
Received 14 Aug 2026Land Parcel at 519465 134242 Rusper Road Horsham West Sussex
Received 14 Aug 2026RM Area 11 (Moathouse) Moathouse Farm Rusper Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 4QR
Received 14 Aug 2026Land North of Horsham Old Holbrook Horsham West Sussex
Received 14 Aug 2026Doves Place Coxham Lane Steyning West Sussex BN44 3LG
Received 14 Aug 2026Pemberley Copsale Road Maplehurst West Sussex RH13 6QY
Received 14 Aug 2026Mowbray Development Site Rusper Road Horsham West Sussex
Received 17 Aug 2026Southview Hayes Lane Slinfold West Sussex RH13 0SQ
Received 17 Aug 2026Hurlands The Haven Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9BE
Received 6 Aug 2026Burford House Rambledown Lane West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2NW
Received 17 Aug 20264 Kingfisher Way Horsham West Sussex RH12 2LT
Received 17 Aug 202617 Cavendish Close Horsham West Sussex RH12 5HX
Received 17 Aug 2026Oakfield Cox Green Rudgwick Horsham West Sussex RH12 3DD
Received 17 Aug 2026Land at New Place Farm Pulborough West Sussex
Received 17 Aug 202618 Greenfields Way Horsham West Sussex RH12 4LQ
Received 18 Aug 2026Horsham Gates Two North Street Horsham West Sussex
Received 18 Aug 202633 Gaggle Wood Mannings Heath Horsham West Sussex RH13 6JR
Received 6 Aug 2026Former Novartis Site Parsonage Road Horsham West Sussex
Received 18 Aug 2026Land To The West of Smock Alley South of Little Haglands West Chiltington
Received 14 Aug 2026St Johns Farm Trout Lane Brooks Green West Sussex RH13 0JN
Received 19 Aug 20263 Greenacre Close Storrington West Sussex RH20 4QG
Received 19 Aug 2026Land South of Sunningdale Horsham Road Steyning West Sussex BN44 3AA
Received 19 Aug 2026Princes Barn Adversane Lane Broadford Bridge West Sussex
Received 19 Aug 20265 Gaskyns Close Rudgwick West Sussex RH12 3HE
Received 19 Aug 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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