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DC/25/1480 - Full Application Approved

Proposal

Erection of 4no. 3-bedroom dwellings with associated car parking, private amenity space and acoustic fencing. Creation of an ecological buffer zone. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 11 Oct 2026, 13:31

Application progress

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Received

16 Sept 2025

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Validated

3 Oct 2025

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Approved

23 Jan 2026

Approved on 23 Jan 2026 · Last checked 11 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Horsham Planning Committee on 20 Jan 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Residents and the parish council raised concerns about privacy, noise, access, traffic, countryside development and the neighbourhood plan.
The committee approved the application with added noise details and post-completion verification requirements.

Read how the committee decided The officers’ assessment, the site history, consultation responses, public concerns, committee debate and decision. Includes the meeting recording

Source: Plota analysis of Horsham's committee minutes of 20 Jan 2026.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 6

National infrastructure project about 544 m away: Rampion 2 Offshore Wind Farm

The site is about 544 m from the project boundary. Generating station, 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 ↗

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

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

Also on the record

National park about 171 m away: South Downs; Priority habitat about 3 m away: Deciduous woodland; Inside the Rock (Horsham) built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

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

Checked on 12 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 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: Full Application
Received: 16 Sept 2025
Validated: 3 Oct 2025
Ward: Storrington and Washington
Parish: Washington PC
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 23 Jan 2026
Decision: Application Permitted
Decision date: 23 Jan 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: Archevolve

How this decision compares

Decided in 112 days from validation, 31 days slower than Horsham's median of 81 for full applications. Approved, as 78% of full applications here are.

This one112d

Council81d

UK56d

29%decided within 8 weeks

78%approved

329decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Horsham in the last twelve months, from validation. Horsham decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

11 neighbours consulted · Last counted 11 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14322457
Planning Portal ref: PP-14322457
Comments by: 20 Nov 2025
Committee: 20 Jan 2026
Statutory expiry: 28 Nov 2025
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