Read the current Local Plan
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
Stages of a Local Plan
For an explanation of each stage of the Local Plan, or how we consult, please visit out What is a Local Plan? page and our Statement of Community Involvement document.
The Local Plan review timetable reflects the timeline detailed within the Local Development Scheme.
Current Local Plan
Our current Local Plan is called the Horsham District Planning Framework. 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)