Read the current Local Plan
LATEST NEWS ON LOCAL PLAN REVIEW: 29 July 2025 - At the Communities and Place Policy and Scrutiny Committee Meeting on 23 July 2025, it was agreed that the Council would write to the Planning Inspectorate to ask them to reconsider their position on the Local Plan in view of the imminent changing planning regulations which will repeal the Duty to Co-operate. In order to provide sufficient time to write to the Planning Inspectorate and report back on any response, the item has been postponed until the Cabinet meeting on 17 September 2025.
For previous updates please refer to the Local Plan Review Newsletter and Updates webpage.
Current Local Plan
Our current Local Plan is called the Horsham District Planning Framework (HDPF). It identifies six priority themes for the Council.
- Economic Development: Plan for a successful local economy with high levels of employment
- Efficiency and Taxation: Delivering excellent value and high performance
- Arts, Heritage and Leisure: Build an arts, leisure and culture reputation that also supports our economy
- Living, Working Communities: Working together to support the life of local communities
- Environment: A better environment for today and tomorrow
- Safer and Healthier: Improving health and well being
Read the Horsham District Planning Framework
- Horsham-District-Planning-Framework-2015.pdf (PDF File, 5.7 MB)
- HDPF SA SEA 2015 (PDF File, 14.4 MB)
View policy area maps
The policy areas covering allocations and designations in the Horsham District Planning Framework are available to view on the Local Plan Mapping Portal.
The easiest way to view the policy areas covered by the Local Plan is to use the Local Plan Mapping tool.
- Open the Local Plan Mapping Tool
- Click the Layer List button in the top right corner
- Open the Horsham District Planning Framework layer and the Constraints layer and tick all the boxes you wish to see
- As you zoom in the layers will start to appear. The layers are clickable if you would like to see more information
- To access the map key, click the Legend button in the top right corner
The maps for our main villages and towns are also available as PDFs below. To view the policy map for the whole District, please view our District Policy Map.
Policy area maps A-P
- Inset 1 Ashington (PDF File, 1.9 MB)
- Inset 2 Barns Green (PDF File, 1.8 MB)
- Inset 3 Billingshurst (PDF File, 2.9 MB)
- Inset 4 Christ's Hospital (PDF File, 1.1 MB)
- Inset 5 Cowfold (PDF File, 1.5 MB)
- Inset 6 Henfield (PDF File, 1.7 MB)
- Inset 7 Horsham and Broadbridge Heath (PDF File, 7.8 MB)
- Inset 7a Horsham Town Centre (PDF File, 1.3 MB)
- Inset 8 Lower Beeding (PDF File, 311.1 KB)
- Inset 9 Mannings Heath (PDF File, 2.7 MB)
- Inset 10 Partridge Green (PDF File, 2.1 MB)
- Inset 11 Pulborough and Codmore Hill (PDF File, 8.6 MB)
Policy area maps R-W
- Inset 12 Rudgwick and Bucks Green (PDF File, 5.2 MB)
- Inset 13 Rusper (PDF File, 1.5 MB)
- Inset 14 Slinfold (PDF File, 4.1 MB)
- Inset 15 Small Dole (PDF File, 5.2 MB)
- Inset 16 Southwater (PDF File, 3.2 MB)
- Inset 17 Steyning (PDF File, 6.9 MB)
- Inset 18 Storrington (PDF File, 5.8 MB)
- Inset 19 Thakeham (PDF File, 3.1 MB)
- Inset 20 Warnham (PDF File, 518.4 KB)
- Inset 21 Warnham and Wealden Brickworks (PDF File, 1.4 MB)
- Inset 22 West Chiltington and West Chiltington Common (PDF File, 2.2 MB)
- Inset 23 Southview (PDF File, 365.9 KB)