The plans for 29 homes south of Furners Lane, Henfield; two in Mill Lane, Partridge Green; and two in Ridgehurst Drive, Horsham, were given a second look after Natural England withdrew its 2021 Position Statement on water neutrality.
The Henfield application included a condition to achieve water neutrality – which has now been removed. The other two had to provide water off-setting via a S106 legal agreement. Again, this is no longer required.
The three developments will be able to revert to the 110 litres per person per day consumption deemed acceptable by the council.
All three applications received unanimous approval during a meeting of the planning committee on Tuesday (December 16).
The point of water neutrality was to prevent over-abstraction from the Sussex North Water Supply Zone, including the Arun Valley.
A report to the committee said Southern Water had made ‘significant water savings in 2024/25’ through a programme of leakage reduction which generated some 3,240,000 litres per day of water savings.
The report added that those savings could now be ‘attributed to new development without increasing water
abstraction in the Arun Valley beyond baseline’.
To view the applications, log on to public-access.horsham.gov.uk and search for DC/24/1538, DC/24/1887, and DC/24/1601.
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