Rushfold Wheatsheaf Road Henfield West Sussex BN5 9AT
Approved on 11 September 2025
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change Of Use of outbuilding formed to provide additional accommodation for existing dwelling to form an Air BnB building.(Retrospective).
- Received
- 8 November 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Horsham District Council
- Ward
- Henfield
- Agent
- SDR Designs
- ReceivedReceived8 Nov
- ValidatedValidated8 Nov
- Consult.Consultation7 Aug
- TargetTarget Date3 Jan
- DecidedDecided11 Sep
Decided in 307 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Rushfold Wheatsheaf Road Henfield West Sussex BN5 9AT. Horsham has handled 2,753 applications of this type. This one was decided in 307 days, 36 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Henfield. We hold 1,071 applications in total for the BN5 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
- BN5 9AT
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Henfield PC
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 November 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 7 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 August 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 December 2024
- Last date for comments
- 7 August 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- SDR Designs
- Agent address
- 14 Batemans Road Woodingdean Brighton East Sussex BN2 6RD
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13466239
- Documents
- 22
- Constraints
- 20
Site constraints
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.
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