Planning applications for minerals, waste, and County Council-own development

• Introduction
• Pre-application advice
• Planning applications online
• Submitting comments
• Statement of Community Involvement
• Validation: the 'Local List'
• Weekly list: applications and appeals
• Planning Committee
• Decisions and decision notices
• Planning Aid

Introduction

Applications are 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).

All other types of planning application are dealt with by the district and borough councils. Find out more about who decides what on DirectGov.

You can submit, search for, and comment on applications submitted to the county council online.

If you have any queries, please contact us.

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Pre-application advice

Please contact us to discuss proposals before submitting an application.

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Planning applications online

Viewing applications

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 and earlier applications by visiting us at County Hall in Chichester. Please contact us to make an appointment.

Submitting applications

You can submit an application online for minerals, waste, or County Council (Regulation 3) developments.

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

Create, manage, and submit waste and Regulation 3 applications on the Planning Portal.

Important note: You must register as a ‘professional user’ with the Planning Portal; registering as ‘general public’ will not give you the facility to submit waste or Regulation 3 applications.

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.

To create a profile or login in to submit a minerals application, visit the online minerals planning applications login page.

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Submitting comments

You can make comments on an application online, by email, 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 3,500 characters. If you wish to write more than this, we recommend that you email us instead.)

When submitting comments on an application, you should include your name and address. Comments submitted without a name and address will be classed as 'anonymous', which means we may not be able to keep you informed of the application's progress, or fully understand the matters you raise. All comments will be acknowledged and made available for public inspection on the website and at County Hall in Chichester. Phone numbers, signatures, and email addresses will be hidden. Do not include any personal information that you would not wish to be publicly available.

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Statement of Community Involvement

The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is our policy for involving interested parties when consulting on planning applications and during preparation of documents to be included in the Minerals and Waste Development Framework (MWDF). Consultation on planning applications will have to comply with the adopted SCI.

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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 for sites outside the South Downs National Park. Additionally, a Code of Practice sets out how we will deal with planning applications.

Applications relating to sites within South Downs National Park are subject to the separate Local Validation Guidelines set by the South Downs National Park Authority. These are available on the National Park Authority’s website.

Supporting documents

• Local List - (PDF, 18 pages, 95KB)
• Checklist - (PDF, 1 page, 17KB)
• Code of Practice - (PDF, 3 pages, 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.

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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.

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Planning Committee

View agendas and minutes from Planning Committee.

To find out about taking part in a meeting, read our guide on 'Planning Committee Public Participation' under Supporting documents.

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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;
• click Documents;
• the decision notice will be listed with the other documents for the applications.

Supporting documents

• Planning Committee: Public Participation (PDF, 2 pages, 53KB)
• Validation: Local List (PDF, 18 pages, 95KB)
• Validation: Check List (PDF, 1 page, 17KB)
• Code of Practice (PDF, 3 pages, 21KB)
• Planning law guide (PDF, 35 pages, 220KB)

Planning Aid

Planning Aid provides free, independent, professional planning advice to communities and individuals who cannot afford to pay professional fees. It also provides 15 minutes’ free telephone advice to all callers. To find out more, including contact details, visit the Planning Aid section of the RTPI’s website.

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