Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Crawley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
816 approved · 774 refused · 523 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
2 CISSBURY HILL, SOUTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedZURICH HOUSE, EAST PARK, SOUTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedPULLCOTTS FARM NURSERY, PEEKS BROOK LANE, POUND HILL, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedPEGLER WAY, WEST GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not published22 ST AUGUSTINE ROAD, SOUTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not published14 VICTORIA ROAD, WEST GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedFORGE WOOD PHASE 2C, FORGE WOOD, CRAWLEY
Received Not published76 MEDWAY ROAD, GOSSOPS GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedRUSPER ROAD, IFIELD, CRAWLEY
Received Not published2 - 14 CROMPTON WAY, NORTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedLAND ADJACENT TO HYDEHURST LANE, NORTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not published27 CRABBET ROAD, THREE BRIDGES, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedOAKSWORTH, CHURCH ROAD, POUND HILL, CRAWLEY
Received Not published21 FILBERT CRESCENT, GOSSOPS GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedGAINSBOROUGH HOUSE, 26 - 32 HIGH STREET, NORTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not published6 WOODLANDS, POUND HILL, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedRAIL OPERATING CENTRE, WILLIAMS WAY, THREE BRIDGES, CRAWLEY
Received Not published25 EWHURST ROAD, WEST GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not publishedTELECOMMUNICATIONS SITE ON GRASS VERGE, BALCOMBE ROAD, POUND HILL, CRAWLEY
Received Not published82 GALES DRIVE, THREE BRIDGES, CRAWLEY, RH10 1QE
Received Not publishedPAVEMENT O/S UNIT 6, 24 - 26 THE MARTLETS, NORTHGATE, CRAWLEY
Received Not published70 LANGLEY WALK, LANGLEY GREEN, CRAWLEY
Received Not published72 GREEN LANE, NORTHGATE, CRAWLEY, RH10 8JS
Received Not publishedKILNWOOD VALE - PHASE 2B, CRAWLEY ROAD, FAYGATE
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Crawley Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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