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Telecommunications site on grass verge, Balcombe Road, Pound Hill, Crawley

CR/2026/0168/RG5StatusRefused

Refused on 7 April 2026

Council decision: OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Notification under Regulation 5 for the proposed removal of the existing 12m pole and installation of the proposed 20m pole with a wraparound cabinet, removal of 1 no. existing cabinet and installation of 2 no. proposed cabinets, and ancillary development

Received
11 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received11 Mar
  2. Validated11 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 27 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Telecommunications site on grass verge, Balcombe Road, Pound Hill, Crawley. Crawley has handled 743 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Crawley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 881 applications in total for the RH10 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RH10 7TS
Application type
Status
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 March 2026
Target decision date
8 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
R/O 1 Branham Street London E1 8EE FAO Norman Gillan

Planning decision

Case officer
Miss S. Hobden
Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Crawley

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