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Latest News: 27 February 2025

The Local Development Scheme (LDS) 2025-2028 has been approved by Cabinet on 26 February 2025.

3 February 2025 - The Inspector has informed us that he remains committed to writing to the Council as soon as he possibly can. He has now indicated that this will not be until towards the end of February / early March at the earliest. His response will be placed on the Local Plan Examination webpage in due course.

16 December 2024 - The Local Plan Inspector has published a letter which cancels the Local Plan hearings for the weeks of 17 December, 14 January and 21 January 2025. A copy of his letter is published on the Latest News from Local Plan Examination webpage.

The Council has drafted a response to this letter: HDC Local Plan Examination Hearing Letter

Horsham District Council formally submitted the Local Plan and supporting documents to the Planning Inspectorate on Friday 26 July 2024. Please refer to the Local Plan Examination webpage for further information.

The Local Development Scheme 2023-2026 was agreed by Cabinet on 28 September 2023. The Local Plan review timetable has been updated to reflect the timeline detailed within the Local Development Scheme.

The Regulation 19 Local Plan period of representation ran between 9am Friday 19 January and 5pm Friday 1 March.

View the Regulation 19 Local Plan online here.

More information about the Regulation Local Plan is available on the Local Plan Regulation 19 webpage.

We consulted on the Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan between 17 February and 30 March 2020.

View the 2020 Draft Local Plan document online here.

More information about our Regulation 18 consultation in 2020 is available on the Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan Consultation page.