Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green West Sussex RH13 0NJ Data via plota.co.uk

DC/26/1369 - Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev Registered
Schools, care & community

Proposal

Erection of a single storey education building. (Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
26 Aug 2026
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Validated
8 Oct 2026
Decision
Expected by 3 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 3 Dec 2026, from Horsham's recent lawful development certificates.

Comments are open until 3 Nov 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 3

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: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 9 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 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
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Postcode
RH13 0NJ
Received
26 Aug 2026
Validated
8 Oct 2026
Ward
Itchingfield, Slinfold and Warnham
Parish
Itchingfield PC
Target decision
3 Dec 2026
Applicant
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Decision outlook

Day 21 of the 56-day target. Horsham usually decides lawful development certificates by day 56.

Day 2135 days to the 56-day target
80%decided within 8 weeks
89%approved
137decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided by Horsham in the last twelve months, from validation. Horsham decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

11 neighbours consulted · Last counted 22 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15185355
Planning Portal ref
PP-15185355
Comments by
3 Nov 2026
Statutory expiry
3 Dec 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

6 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2021 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Erection of detached classroom building.
DC/21/0594
2021 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Erection of detached classroom building.
DC/21/0594
2019 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Erection of a single storey outdoor learning classroom building with associated groundwor…
DC/19/0563
2019 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Erection of a single storey outdoor learning classroom building with associated groundwor…
DC/19/0563
2019 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Extension to dining room on ground floor (Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed)
DC/19/0488
2019 Approved
Muntham House School Muntham Drive Barns Green Horsham West Sussex RH13 0NJ
Extension to dining room on ground floor (Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed)
DC/19/0488
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
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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings