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The Hermitage 71 High Street Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9QP

CA/25/0126Conservation Area Notification (S211)Approved
Prior approval

Approved on 23 February 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Surgery to 2x Beech (Works to Trees in a Conservation Area)

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Billingshurst
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Jan
  4. Target16 Feb
  5. Decided23 Feb

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at The Hermitage 71 High Street Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9QP. Horsham has handled 513 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 9 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. The site is in the Billingshurst conservation area, with 13 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Billingshurst. We hold 1,272 applications in total for the RH14 postcode area.

97% of heritage applications at Horsham District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RH14 9QP
Application type
Conservation Area Notification (S211)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Billingshurst PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2026
Last date for comments
27 January 2026
Target decision date
16 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14438023
Documents
7
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Billingshurst Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: The HermitageOn or next to this site
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Billingshurst
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Horsham

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