The Old Post Office The Street Thakeham West Sussex RH20 3EP
Proposal
Erection of a single storey outbuilding for the purposes of car and garden storage and domestic workshop.
- Received
- 21 July 2023
- Decided
- 5 October 2023 · Application Permitted
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Horsham District Council
- Ward
- West Chiltington, Thakeham and Ashington
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- ReceivedReceived21 Jul
- ValidatedValidated31 Jul
- Consult.Consultation31 Aug
- TargetTarget Date25 Sep
- DecidedDecided5 Oct
Decided in 66 days (council typically 56)
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at The Old Post Office The Street Thakeham West Sussex RH20 3EP. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type and approves 87% of them, typically deciding them in 60 days. This one was decided in 76 days, 2 weeks longer than Horsham's median. The site is in the Thakeham conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 108 applications across West Chiltington, Thakeham and Ashington. We hold 2,864 applications in total for the RH20 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- Conservation area: Thakeham Conservation Area
- Listed building: Grade II: H J Skinners Stores Norbury With the House Attached Thakeham Post OfficeOn this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)
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, 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.
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