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Mill House 11 Nightingale Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2NW

DC/23/1603Full ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 29 May 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of office building to five short term tenancy apartments with basement service room.

Received
29 August 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Holbrook West
Agent
NJA Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated29 Aug
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target24 Oct
  5. Decided29 May

Decided in 274 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Mill House 11 Nightingale Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 2NW. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 274 days, 31 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Holbrook West. We hold 754 applications in total for the RH12 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
RH12 2NW
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Denne NC

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 August 2023
Consultation expiry
2 January 2024
Consultation end
2 January 2024
Neighbour consultation end
22 September 2023
Last date for comments
2 January 2024
Target decision date
24 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
NJA Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
The Beehive City Place Gatwick RH6 0PA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3355886
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 16 July 2025Dev Type: Other minor developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12415799
Documents
53
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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