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CR/2025/0751/191 - Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use Approved

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for use of land and buildings for the storage and distribution of pallets with ancillary offices and workshop, falling within Use Class B8, with permitted height of outside storage as shown on the site plan CBC 0002 submitted on 4th June 2026 being a maximum of 2m in height (area hatched in blue) and a maximum of 5m in height (area hatched in red). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
22 Dec 2025
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Appeal dismissed
7 Jul 2026
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Approved
22 Sept 2026

Approved on 22 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 2 Oct 2026

Documents 3

Plans & drawings 2

PDF Site Plan (PDF) Document · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF Location Plan (PDF) Document · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form (PDF) Document · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
2 Article 4 directions
Parts of the Urban District of Dorking · Land in the County of Surrey. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
National infrastructure project: Gatwick Airport Northern Runway
The site is inside the project boundary. Airport, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Hookwood built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Crawley
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness of Existing Use
Received
22 Dec 2025
Validated
22 Dec 2025
Case officer
Show
Target decision
24 Sept 2026
Decision
PERMIT
Decision date
22 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Appeal
Dismissed · 7 Jul 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6007282 ↗
Applicant
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Agent
Stephen Jupp MRTPI

How this decision compares

Decided in 274 days from validation, 219 days slower than Crawley's median of 55 for lawful development certificates. Approved, as 91% of lawful development certificates here are.

74%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
66decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided by Crawley in the last twelve months, from validation. Crawley decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
17 Feb 2026
Crawley
Planning Authority Score
0.5/10
Poor
#295 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Crawley is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #288 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 73% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Crawley is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 82% approved vs 90% nationally.

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Crawley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
83%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #235 of 296
82%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #265 of 296
26%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #288 of 296
73%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #290 of 296
80%
Minor dwellings approved
5 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
18 decided
218
Total decisions
38 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings