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

DC/24/0093Removal of conditionRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 4 June 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Variation of condition 6 of previously approved application reference DC/19/1283 (Retrospective application for the change of use of existing vacant building to a club for teaching of various martial arts) from 10 participants to 24 plus 2 Instructors.

Received
17 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cowfold, Shermanbury and West Grinstead
  1. Received17 Jan
  2. Validated19 Mar
  3. Consult.31 May
  4. Target14 May
  5. Decided4 Jun

Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Capons Hill Farm Unit 3 Station Road Cowfold Horsham West Sussex RH13 8DE. Horsham has handled 801 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

95% of conditions 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
Removal of condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cowfold PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 March 2024
Consultation expiry
31 May 2024
Consultation end
31 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
18 April 2024
Last date for comments
31 May 2024
Target decision date
14 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice end
31 May 2024

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3351359
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 6 June 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Appeal Against Conditions

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12737118
Documents
24
Constraints
20

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

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.

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