West Sussex County Council: Planning Applications Online (Minerals, Waste, County)

Welcome to our online service for planning applications.  This service allows you to submit, search for, and comment on applications online.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS

Applications should be made to the county council for permission to carry out:

• mineral development (for example sand, gravel, chalk, and clay extraction);
• waste development (such as landfill, tipping, waste recycling, transfer stations, and wastewater treatment works);
• the county council’s own development (including schools, libraries, and care homes).

The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is the County Council's policy for involving interested parties when consulting on the above mentioned types of planning applications, and in preparing the documents to be included in the Minerals and Waste Development Framework (MWDF).  Consultation on planning applications will have to comply with the adopted SCI.

All other types of planning application are dealt with by the district and borough councils.

PRE-APPLICATION ADVICE

Please contact us to discuss proposals with a planning officer before submitting an application.  This advice is free of charge.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS ONLINE

Viewing applications online

You can search for and look at minerals, waste, and the county council's own applications registered since April 2004.

You can also see these applications by visiting us at County Hall in Chichester.  Please contact us to make an appointment.

Submitting applications online

You can submit an application online for minerals, waste, or county council (Regulation 3) developments.  Applications created can be saved at any time for completion later.  Supporting documentation must be in PDF format.

Waste and Regulation 3 applications should be submitted via the Planning Portal, where you will need to register a user name and password.  Further information on submitting and viewing applications for professional users is available on the Planning Portal.

Minerals applications have to be submitted through our web site.  You will need to create a profile so that you can login to then submit applications.

Submitting comments

You can make comments on an application online, by e-mail, or by post - view our contact details.

To submit comments online for a particular application:

• You will need to search for the application (opens in a new window) - we recommend entering the site name in the keywords.
• When you find the application, click on the 'view full details' link that appears beneath the application's summary details.
• Click the 'submit comments about this application' link.
• Complete and submit the form. (Please note that the comments box allows for a maximum of 1,900 characters.  If you wish to write more than this, we recommend that you e-mail us instead.)

VALIDATION: THE "LOCAL LIST"

In December 2007, the government introduced new guidelines and advice for local councils to improve the planning application validation process.  Validation of a planning application represents the start of the determination process, resulting in granting or refusing planning permission.

To meet the specific needs of West Sussex, we have adopted a Local List for validating planning applications received from April 2009.  Additionally, a Code of Practice sets out how we will deal with planning applications.

Local List (pdf, 95KB)
Checklist (pdf, 17KB)
Code of Practice (pdf, 21KB)

For details on how the Local List and Code of Practice were prepared, please refer to the Planning Committee minutes for the meeting held on 17 March 2009

WEEKLY LIST - APPLICATIONS AND APPEALS

The lists (old and current) are included in the weekly Members' Information Service (MIS): select a week - the weekly list is incorporated within the report so scroll down to view.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

View agendas and minutes from Planning Committee.

To find out about taking part in a meeting, read our guide on public participation at Planning Committee (pdf, 47KB), also available under Downloads.

DECISIONS AND DECISION NOTICES

Use the online search facility to obtain the list of decisions made.  Decision notices can be printed for reference but they do not include dates or signatures for security reasons

To view decisions made:

• You will need to search for the application (opens in a new window).
• Select 'determined'.
• Enter any other criteria, such as dates, application type, and/or parish.
• Click the Search button to view a list of determined applications.
• To view an application's decision notice, click on the 'view full details' link that appears beneath its summary details. The decision notice will be listed under Documents.

CONTACT US

For further information, please contact us.

If you are an agent/applicant or have been consulted on a planning application, we would appreciate your feedback.