West Sussex County Council: Planning

Planning responsibilities in West Sussex are split between the county council and the district/borough councils.

As a county council, we are responsible for:

• preparing minerals and waste policy documents for the Minerals and Waste Development Framework;
• dealing with planning applications for minerals, waste, and the county council’s own development;
• monitoring minerals, waste, and the county council’s development (including compliance and enforcement);
• highways and transport planning.

District and borough councils are responsible for:

• preparing a Local Development Framework;
• dealing with planning applications for all development other than minerals, waste, and the county council’s own development;
• building regulations.

Extensive information about planning is available on the Planning Portal and in a section on repairs, planning, and building regulations on Directgov.

If you have a query, please contact us.

• About planning in West Sussex
• Commercial and industrial development survey
• Compliance and Enforcement
• Contact planning
• Development and Enforcement
• Housing and residential land in West Sussex
• Housing Market Assessment
• Land reclamation
• Minerals and Waste Development Framework
• Minerals and waste policy
• Minerals Local Plan
• National planning: the "planning system"
• Planning applications for minerals, waste, and county council-own development
• Planning applications submitted to district councils
• Planning at district and borough councils
• Planning obligations
• Planning Policy Guidance and Statements
• Planning-related abbreviations and glossary
• Planning-related facts and figures
• Plans and policies (statutory land use)
• Regional planning and the South East Plan
• Residential and householder planning
• Statutory register of decision notices
• Structure Plan 2001-2016
• Waste Local Plan
• West Sussex Character Project
• West Sussex Joint Planning Board