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Gatewick Farm Steyning Bypass Steyning West Sussex BN44 3SF

DC/25/1723Certificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application to confirm the continuous use of land for the storage of caravans, motorhomes and vehicles and the siting of metal storage containers and their use for storage purposes for a period in excess of ten years (Lawful Development Certificate Existing)

Received
24 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Steyning and Ashurst
Agent
dowsettmayhew Planning Partnership
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Gatewick Farm Steyning Bypass Steyning West Sussex BN44 3SF. Horsham has handled 241 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Steyning and Ashurst. We hold 197 applications in total for the BN44 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
BN44 3SF
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Steyning PC

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2025
Consultation expiry
9 December 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
9 December 2025
Last date for comments
9 December 2025
Target decision date
19 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
dowsettmayhew Planning Partnership
Agent address
Mocatta House Trafalgar Place Brighton BN1 4DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14333733
Documents
14
Constraints
16

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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