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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.
1,501 approved · 133 refused · 66 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Warnham Mill Warnham Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2RA
Received 26 Aug 2026Old Clayton Boarding Kennels Storrington Road Washington Pulborough West Sussex RH20 4AG
Received 26 Aug 2026Bramblewood Newhouse Lane Storrington West Sussex RH20 3HQ
Received 27 Aug 202629 Pound Lane Upper Beeding West Sussex BN44 3JB
Received 27 Aug 2026Comptons Tennis Club Leechpond Hill Lower Beeding West Sussex RH13 6NR
Received 27 Aug 202623 Barrington Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5SN
Received 27 Aug 2026Storage Area A Old Brick Yard Stonehouse Farm Handcross Road Plummers Plain West Sussex RH13 6NZ
Received 27 Aug 202645 Rascals Close Southwater West Sussex RH13 9GB
Received 27 Aug 2026Land North of Glebe Farm and Kings Barn Lane Kings Barn Lane Steyning West Sussex
Received 27 Aug 2026Old Clayton Boarding Kennels Storrington Road Washington Pulborough West Sussex RH20 4AG
Received 28 Aug 202614 Millthorpe Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 4EP
Received 28 Aug 2026Silver Birches 18 Winterpit Close Mannings Heath West Sussex RH13 6JY
Received 28 Aug 2026Land To The North of Woodlawn High Street Partridge Green West Sussex
Received 14 Aug 202631 Warren Drive Southwater West Sussex RH13 9GL
Received 28 Aug 2026Land On The Corner of Haglands Lane and Nightingales West Chiltington West Sussex
Received 28 Aug 2026Old School House Church Street West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2JW
Received 28 Aug 2026Land North Of The Rise Partridge Green West Sussex RH13 8JB
Received 28 Aug 2026Adjacent Devonshire House Land North West of Devonshire House College Hill Steyning BN44 3GG
Received 28 Aug 2026Land at Northlands Lane Storrington West Sussex
Received 31 Aug 2026Swains Farm Brighton Road Henfield West Sussex BN5 9RP
Received 31 Aug 20262 Undermill Road Upper Beeding West Sussex BN44 3JG
Received 31 Aug 2026Olivers Sunset Lane West Chiltington West Sussex RH20 2NY
Received 31 Aug 20267 Cooks Mead Rusper West Sussex RH12 4PU
Received 31 Aug 202668/70 High Street Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9QS
Received 31 Aug 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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