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DC/26/0150 - Telecommunications Notification (28days) Approved

Proposal

Installation of 10m wooden pole for fixed line broadband electronic communications. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:51

Application progress

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Received

22 Jan 2026

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Approved

17 Feb 2026

Approved on 17 Feb 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 5

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

National infrastructure project about 1047 m away: Gatwick Airport Northern Runway

The site is about 1047 m from the project boundary. Airport, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Priority habitat about 17 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Horsham
Application type: Telecommunications Notification (28days)
Postcode: RH11 0JY
Received: 22 Jan 2026
Validated: 22 Jan 2026
Ward: Colgate and Rusper
Parish: Rusper PC
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 19 Feb 2026
Decision: NO OBJECTION to Notification
Decision date: 17 Feb 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 26 days from validation, about the council's usual 28 days. Approved, as 86% of utility and infrastructure works here are.

This one26d

Council28d

UK55d

67%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

53decided in the last year

Plota live figures for utility and infrastructure works decided by Horsham in the last twelve months, from validation. Horsham decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 19 Feb 2026
Env. assessment: No

Horsham

Planning Authority Score

6.6/10

Good

#75 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Horsham ranks #105 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils

97% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Horsham decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

92%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #83 of 296

97%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #33 of 296

72%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #105 of 296

43%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #170 of 296

75%

Minor dwellings approved

185 decided (1-9 homes)

91%

Major dwellings approved

35 decided (10+ homes)

91%

Change of use approved

78 decided

1,319

Total decisions

111 refused in the year to March 2026