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23 Bedford Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5BL

DC/26/0276Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/DevRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 30 April 2026

Council decision: Application RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a single storey side extension as an addition to existing rear extension. (Lawful Development Certificate - Proposed).

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forest
Agent
L T Pickering Architects Ltd
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided30 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at 23 Bedford Road Horsham West Sussex RH13 5BL. Horsham has handled 569 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Horsham's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Forest. We hold 2,379 applications in total for the RH13 postcode area.

83% of outline 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 5BL
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Forest NC

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2026
Consultation expiry
31 March 2026
Consultation end
31 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
31 March 2026
Last date for comments
31 March 2026
Target decision date
30 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
L T Pickering Architects Ltd
Architect profile
L T PICKERING ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
53 New Heritage Way North Chailey Lewes BN8 4GD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14711509
Documents
6
Constraints
11

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

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    18 Jun

    Erection of a single storey side extension.

    PendingHouseholderDC/26/0987

Source: Horsham

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