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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.
3,602 approved · 291 refused · 275 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
33 Southlands East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 4DB
Received 20 Mar 2026Broad Street House Broad Street Cuckfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5LW
Received 20 Mar 2026Duckyls Farm Centre Selsfield Road West Hoathly East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 4QY
Received 20 Mar 2026Byanda Brighton Road Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9LX
Received 23 Mar 2026Windyridge Borers Arms Road Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 3LJ
Received 23 Mar 2026Mulberries Lewes Road Horsted Keynes Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7DP
Received 23 Mar 20261 Francis Road Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2JB
Received 23 Mar 2026Walstead Place Farm House Scaynes Hill Road Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2QG
Received 23 Mar 2026Heathy Ridge Copthorne Road Copthorne Crawley West Sussex RH10 3PD
Received 23 Mar 2026Thickets Deaks Lane Ansty Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 5AS
Received 23 Mar 20263 Turners Mill Close Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1NL
Received 23 Mar 20263 Kings Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 4EJ
Received 23 Mar 2026St Anns House Black Hill Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2HE
Received 23 Mar 20264 The Courtyard Buxshalls Ardingly Road Lindfield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 2QY
Received 23 Mar 2026Furlong House Pitt Lane Hurstpierpoint Hassocks West Sussex BN6 9QA
Received 23 Mar 202672 Sydney Road Haywards Heath West Sussex RH16 1QA
Received 23 Mar 2026Meadow Cottage Rose Cottage Lane Staplefield Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6EP
Received 23 Mar 2026St Johns Church Lower Church Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9AA
Received 23 Mar 2026Burgess Hill Northern Arc, Land N And NW Of Burgess Hill, Between Bedelands Nature Reserve In The East And, Goddard's Green Waste Water Treatment Works In The We
Received 23 Mar 2026Police House North Street Turners Hill Crawley West Sussex RH10 4NP
Received 23 Mar 2026Field Cottage Sloop Lane Scaynes Hill Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 7NP
Received 23 Mar 202641 The Oaks Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9XP
Received 24 Mar 2026Lower Stumble Exploration Site London Road Balcombe Haywards Heath West Sussex RH17 6JH
Received 13 Mar 2026Queen Victoria Hospital Holtye Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3DZ
Received 24 Mar 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 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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