Planning permission in Crawley
Crawley Borough Council decides planning applications in Crawley. This page shows the protected areas that affect what homeowners can build without planning permission, and the planning data Crawley publishes.
Conservation areas
Crawley has 13 conservation areas. In a conservation area, permitted development rights are reduced: side extensions, two-storey extensions, loft dormers and cladding all need planning permission, and many councils add Article 4 directions on top.
- Brighton Road Conservation Area
- Dyers Almshouses Conservation Area
- Forestfield and Shrublands Conservation Area
- Gossops Green Neighbourhood Centre Conservation Area
- Hazelwick Road Conservation Area
- High Street Conservation Area
- Ifield Village Conservation Area
- Malthouse Road Conservation Area
- Queens Square and the Broadway Conservation Area
- Southgate Neighbourhood Centre Conservation Area
- St. Peters Conservation Area
- Sunnymead Conservation Area
- Worth Conservation Area
Read more: extensions, loft dormers, garden rooms and solar panels in a conservation area.
Article 4 directions
Crawley hasn't published any Article 4 boundaries on planning.data.gov.uk. Most councils have at least one Article 4 direction, often in conservation areas, so check the council's website or ask its planning team before relying on permitted development.
Directions listed by Crawley:
- Aintree Road & Epsom Road
- Arden Road
- Ardingly Close
- Beverley Mews
- Caburn Heights
- Farmleigh Close
- Land at Balcombe Road
- Land at Westfield Place
- Land in the County of Surrey
- Lowfield Heath
- Maidenbower Business Park
- Manor Royal
- Parts of the Urban District of Dorking
- Rillside & Winterfold
- Ringwood Close
- Three Bridges Corridor
- Tilgate Forest Business Centre
- Victoria Mews
- Weald Drive
What is an Article 4 direction?
National parks, National Landscapes and green belt
- National Landscape (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) in or bordering Crawley: High Weald.
- There is green belt in or bordering Crawley. Householder permitted development rights apply as normal in the green belt, but if you need planning permission, green belt policy limits how much a home can be enlarged.
National parks and National Landscapes restrict permitted development in similar ways to conservation areas. Read more: extensions, loft dormers and garden rooms.
Listed buildings and protected trees
Listed buildings everywhere in England are recorded by Historic England, and the checker looks for them at every address. Crawley doesn't publish listed building outlines, so where a listed building is recorded near an address, we ask the homeowner to check whether it's theirs.
Crawley doesn't publish its tree preservation orders as data. If there are mature trees near your project, ask the council whether any are protected before you start.
What Crawley publishes
| Data | Status | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Conservation area boundaries | Published | 13 |
| Article 4 direction boundaries | Not published | 0 |
| Listed building outlines | Not published | 0 |
| Tree preservation order areas | Not published | 0 |
| Protected trees | Not published | 0 |
Planning work on a home in Crawley? Put a pin on your house and we'll check it against all of this.
Start a checkData from planning.data.gov.uk, published by Crawley Borough Council and national bodies under the Open Government Licence, last updated here on 30 October 2026. Crawley Borough Council website.