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Housing Delivery Test result for Crawley

What the public record actually shows for Crawley. Every figure below is measured or published, with its sample and its date. Nothing here is an estimate, and none of it predicts what a particular application will do.

How long decisions took

We have not measured decision times for Crawley. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding about this council: our crawl of council registers reaches some authorities and not others, and we would rather say so than borrow a national average.

Housing Delivery Test

Crawley measured 36% in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test — consequence: Presumption.

MHCLG records 402 homes delivered against a three-year requirement of 1,112.

Published by MHCLG on 2026-08-17. This is the most recent measurement published, not a current-year figure, and it is the number that determines whether the presumption in favour of sustainable development is engaged.

Planning appeals in Crawley

11 allowed in full, 41 dismissed, 2 allowed in part, from 54 planning appeals decided for Crawley between 01/01/2021 and 31/07/2026.

We do not turn that into a percentage: under 100 decided appeals, a rate looks like a finding and behaves like noise. The counts are the honest form. This is not a statement that no appeals succeeded. Only refused applications get appealed, so these are a self-selected minority of decisions.

What this page is not

It does not tell you what constrains a particular site in Crawley. Designations sit on land, not on councils. For that, run a free check on the site itself: it names every designation on or beside the boundary, states when each dataset was last collected, and says plainly where a record is not published rather than showing you a clear result.

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Appeal outcomes from the Planning Inspectorate appeals database, England only, Open Government Licence v3.0, release of 2026-08-31. Decision speed measured from council registers by PF & Co. Housing Delivery Test © MHCLG, Open Government Licence v3.0. All 274 authorities.