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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.
3,460 approved · 276 refused · 266 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Western Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 3LR
Received 7 Oct 202520 Beacon Crescent Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0ZL
Received 7 Oct 202510 Victoria Way Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9NF
Received 7 Oct 2025Land To The South Of Kings Way Burgess Hill West Sussex
Received 7 Oct 2025Orchard Nursery Holtye Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3PP
Received 7 Oct 202535 Petworth Drive Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 8JT
Received 7 Oct 2025Shepherds Farm Turners Hill Road Crawley Down Crawley West Sussex RH10 4HQ
Received 7 Oct 2025Ansty Farm Deaks Lane Ansty West Sussex RH17 5AS
Received 7 Oct 20257 Downs View Road Hassocks West Sussex BN6 8HJ
Received 7 Oct 2025Borde Hill Estate Borde Hill Lane Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1XP
Received 8 Oct 2025Lattenbury Lewes Road Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7DP
Received 8 Oct 20252 Salisbury Cottages Chapel Lane Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7AF
Received 8 Oct 2025Land At 18 And 19 Dukes Road Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2JH
Received 8 Oct 202512 Brodford Way Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 4UH
Received 8 Oct 202524 Sunte Avenue Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2AA
Received 8 Oct 20257 Hammonds Gardens Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9QN
Received 8 Oct 20252 Mytten Close Cuckfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5LN
Received 8 Oct 20253 Cottage Homes Truslers Hill Lane Albourne Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9JL
Received 8 Oct 2025Land R/o Greensleeves Tiltwood Hophurst Lane Crawley Down Crawley West Sussex RH10 4LL
Received 8 Oct 2025Hillsborough House 118 High Street Hurstpierpoint West Sussex
Received 9 Oct 2025Finches Field Recreation Ground And Hemsleys Meadows Old Brighton Road South Pease Pottage West Sussex
Received 9 Oct 20255 Hickmans Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2BQ
Received 9 Oct 20255 Hickmans Lane Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2BQ
Received 9 Oct 2025Adj To 9 Parkside Hassocks West Sussex BN6 8BL
Received 9 Oct 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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