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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 Mid Sussex District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,041 approved · 237 refused · 228 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 May 2017 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Parklands House Cedar Avenue Haywards Heath West Sussex
Received 23 Dec 2024Henfield Place Church Road Scaynes Hill Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7NH
Received 23 Dec 2024Whistledown Birchwood Grove Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0DL
Received 24 Dec 2024Land Opposite Mulberry Cottage And Sundial Cottage Old Place High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2HU
Received 24 Dec 20241 The Calf Unit Bowders Farm Haywards Heath Road Balcombe Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6QH
Received 24 Dec 2024Whistledown Birchwood Grove Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0DL
Received 2 Jan 2025Rutherford House The Street Bolney Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5PG
Received 2 Jan 202517 Park Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8EU
Received 2 Jan 20255 Border Chase Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 3QH
Received 2 Jan 202515 Sandy Vale Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 4JH
Received 2 Jan 2025Oasted East Lewes Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3UD
Received 2 Jan 2025Nether Walstead East Mascalls Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2QJ
Received 2 Jan 2025Nether Walstead East Mascalls Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2QJ
Received 2 Jan 202598A South Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 4LJ
Received 2 Jan 2025116 New England Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LF
Received 2 Jan 202552 Crescent Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8EG
Received 2 Jan 2025Land West Of Turners Hill Road And South Of Huntsland Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex
Received 2 Jan 2025Land West Of Turners Hill Road And South Of Huntsland Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex
Received 2 Jan 2025Land West Of Turners Hill Road And North Of Huntsland Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex
Received 2 Jan 2025Land West Of Turners Hill Road And North Of Huntsland Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex
Received 2 Jan 2025Land West Of Copthorne Copthorne Way Copthorne West Sussex
Received 3 Jan 2025Burgess Hill Northern Arc, Land North And North West Of Burgess Hill, Between Bedelands Nature Reserve In The East And, Goddard's Green Waste Water Treatment Works In The West
Received 3 Jan 2025Willow Tree 21 High Street Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2HJ
Received 6 Jan 202510 Oathall Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3EA
Received 6 Jan 2025Records 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 Mid Sussex 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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