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Westlands Farm Billingshurst Road Ashington West Sussex RH20 3BB

DC/24/0257Certificate Existing Lawful Use/DevRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 16 September 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application to confirm that condition 2 of previously approved application DC/19/2196 (Erection of two x 3 bedroom semi-detached dwellings) has been complied with and that the actions and intent of the applicant with regards to prior to commencement conditions 3,4 and 5 ensures the permission remains extant (Lawful Development Certificate - Existing)

Received
16 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Chiltington, Thakeham and Ashington
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target12 Apr
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 213 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Westlands Farm Billingshurst Road Ashington West Sussex RH20 3BB. Horsham has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 213 days, 22 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across West Chiltington, Thakeham and Ashington. We hold 2,892 applications in total for the RH20 postcode area.

70% of amendment 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
RH20 3BB
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ashington PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2024
Consultation expiry
17 April 2024
Consultation end
17 April 2024
Neighbour consultation end
15 March 2024
Last date for comments
17 April 2024
Target decision date
12 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Melton Lodge Rusper Road Newdigate RH5 5BX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12783699
Documents
8
Constraints
9

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.

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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