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Capons Hill Farm Unit 3 Station Road Cowfold West Sussex RH13 8DE

DC/19/1283Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 November 2019

Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Retrospective application for the change of use of existing vacant building to a club for teaching of various martial arts

Received
21 June 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Cowfold, Shermanbury and West Grinstead
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target2 Oct
  5. Decided22 Nov

Decided in 107 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Capons Hill Farm Unit 3 Station Road Cowfold West Sussex RH13 8DE. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 154 days, 14 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 79 applications across Cowfold, Shermanbury and West Grinstead. We hold 2,381 applications in total for the RH13 postcode area.

90% of full 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
RH13 8DE
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Cowfold PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2019
Consultation expiry
1 October 2019
Consultation end
1 October 2019
Neighbour consultation end
1 October 2019
Last date for comments
1 October 2019
Target decision date
2 October 2019
Committee meeting
19 November 2019

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
8 August 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07903848
Documents
155
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.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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

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© 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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