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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 Mid Sussex District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,092 approved · 240 refused · 232 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Copthorne Cottage Copthorne Bank Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 3JQ
Received 4 Feb 2025Loxley Bolney Chapel Road Twineham Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5NN
Received 5 Feb 2025Land To Side Of 75 Oathall Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3EL
Received 5 Feb 2025West Street Baptist Church West Street East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 4EY
Received 5 Feb 20256 Chapel Lane Ashurst Wood East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3QT
Received 5 Feb 20255 Silverdale Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0ED
Received 5 Feb 2025The Martlets Shopping Centre Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9NN
Received 11 Feb 2025Land To The North Of Lyndon Reeds Lane Sayers Common West Sussex BN6 9LS
Received 5 Feb 2025Rowfant Mill Cottage Old Hollow Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 4TB
Received 5 Feb 2025Rowfant Mill Cottage Old Hollow Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 4TB
Received 5 Feb 202537 Blackthorns Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2AX
Received 6 Feb 202513 Grange Road Crawley Down Crawley West Sussex RH10 4JT
Received 6 Feb 2025Buckhurst Meadow Wyatts Lane Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7AH
Received 6 Feb 202563 Balcombe Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1PE
Received 6 Feb 2025Brackendean 20 Folders Lane Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0DR
Received 6 Feb 202561 Stonepound Road Hassocks West Sussex BN6 8PR
Received 6 Feb 20255 Costells Edge Scaynes Hill Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7PY
Received 6 Feb 2025Land To The South Of Kings Way Burgess Hill West Sussex
Received 6 Feb 2025Land To The West Of Freeks Lane Burgess Hill West Sussex
Received 6 Feb 2025Land To The West Of Freeks Lane Burgess Hill West Sussex
Received 6 Feb 2025Plummerden House Park Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2QS
Received 6 Feb 2025National Trust Nymans Staplefield Road Handcross Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6EB
Received 6 Feb 2025Twinham 34 Hurst Road Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9NL
Received 6 Feb 20253 Inholmes Close Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0JF
Received 7 Feb 2025Records 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 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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