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Unit 1 Horsham Trade Park Foundry Lane Horsham West Sussex RH13 5PX

DC/24/0327Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 29 April 2024

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Vehicle Servicing and MOT centre (Use Class B2) to Storage and Distribution (Use Class B8) together with associated parking (Retrospective)

Received
23 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Roffey South
  1. Received23 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.1 Apr
  4. Target29 Apr
  5. Decided29 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 1 Horsham Trade Park Foundry Lane Horsham West Sussex RH13 5PX. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Roffey South. 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 5PX
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest NC

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2024
Consultation expiry
1 April 2024
Consultation end
1 April 2024
Neighbour consultation end
28 March 2024
Last date for comments
1 April 2024
Target decision date
29 April 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
White and Sons
Agent address
3 Massetts Road Horley Surrey RH6 7PR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Appeal Dismissed

Appeal history

3350602
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 3 February 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
52
Constraints
16

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

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.

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