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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.
3,506 approved · 279 refused · 270 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 May 2017 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To The West Of Courthouse Farm Copthorne Common Copthorne West Sussex
Received 25 Nov 2025Land To The West Of Courthouse Farm Copthorne Common Copthorne West Sussex
Received 25 Nov 202525 Kings Drive Hassocks West Sussex BN6 8DX
Received 25 Nov 20252 By Sunte Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2DF
Received 25 Nov 20252 Mulberry Cottage Sandy Lane Crawley Down Crawley West Sussex RH10 4HS
Received 25 Nov 2025Hunters Gate Church Lane Ardingly Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6UR
Received 24 Nov 2025West House Farm Henfield Road Albourne Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9DE
Received 25 Nov 20254 Wallis Way Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8UJ
Received 25 Nov 202535 Heathcote Drive East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 1NB
Received 26 Nov 2025Middle House Lanehurst Twineham Lane Albourne Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9JP
Received 26 Nov 2025Oak Trees Roundwood Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1SJ
Received 26 Nov 2025Wealden House Lewes Road Ashurst Wood West Sussex RH19 3TB
Received 26 Nov 2025Wealden House Lewes Road Ashurst Wood West Sussex RH19 3TB
Received 26 Nov 2025West House Farm Henfield Road Albourne Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9DE
Received 25 Nov 2025Fernbank Gloucester Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8QD
Received 26 Nov 2025The Long House 6 The Wilderness Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2JD
Received 27 Nov 2025The Pines Kemps Hurstpierpoint West Sussex BN6 9XW
Received 27 Nov 2025205 Holtye Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3ER
Received 27 Nov 2025Rixons Lewes Road Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7DP
Received 28 Nov 202529 Wickham Way Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1UJ
Received 27 Nov 2025Land Adjacent To Rowan East Of Turners Hill Road Crawley Down West Sussex
Received 28 Nov 202541 Faulkners Way Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8SA
Received 28 Nov 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 28 Nov 202537 Willow Gardens Hurstpierpoint Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9TL
Received 28 Nov 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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