Pease Pottage

16°CClear

• Today: 22° / 13° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 17° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:29Sunset 19:24

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

89 reported · July 2026▲ 2% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour31
• Violence & sexual offences24
• Criminal damage & arson10
• Public order8

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Balcombe, Handcross, Pease Pottage, Ansty, Staplefield and Cuckfield · Sussex

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

271 reported road collisions (2024)

63 killed or seriously injured · 368 casualties · 22.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

126 food businesses within 2 miles

• 93 rated 4–5 ★ (81 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Crawley (3.4 km)
• 14 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£338,311 average▲ 4.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,486 average monthly rent▲ 3.1% YoY

• 1 bed £1,065
• 2 bed £1,384
• 3 bed £1,639

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

8.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 8.5 times median annual pay (9.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (1.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · Asda (9.7 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

34 charging locations within ~8 km

• 14 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Moto Pease Pottage Services (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches16
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

118,493 residents in Crawley · 2,635/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 13%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in England

Ranked 136 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,418 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (48% of 47,280)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

37 schools · 20,758 pupils

25 primary · 6 secondary · 6 other

Ofsted: 11 of 12 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (92%)

34inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

988 CQC-registered services

• Care homes343
• GP practices106
• Dentists219
• Homecare agencies210
• Hospitals & hospices37

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Sussex

• Not in the Green Belt
• 2 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

54 applications decided

87% granted · 47 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Mims Davies

Conservative

East Grinstead and Uckfield

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 21
• Con 4
• Ref 11

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools3
• GPs & clinics1
• Parks & greens89
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

4,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

136 jobs advertised · £44,564 avg

e.g. Amazon Flex Delivery Driver - Earn £14 - £18 per hour*, Senior Residential Support Worker, Residential Support Worker

Source: Adzuna

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.5% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,788 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

56% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 45,126 certificates

7.7% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

50% low-carbon electricity

Wind 40% · Imports 34% · Gas 16% · Nuclear 6%

85 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.6
• Feeling worthwhile8.2
• Happiness yesterday7.0
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Grinstead and Uckfield:

• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership445 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership418 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office357 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s310 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test275 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Pease Pottage · 0.1 km

  Pease Pottage is a village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the southern edge of the Crawley built-up area, in the civil parish of Slaugham.

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  Pease Pottage services · 0.2 km

  Pease Pottage services is a motorway service station at Junction 11 of the M23 motorway near Crawley. It is owned by Moto.

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  Cedars (immigration detention) · 0.5 km

  Cedars was an immigration detention facility in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom adjacent to Gatwick Airport. It was operated by UK Visas and Immigration with security and facilities maintenance contracted out to…

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  Cottesmore School · 1.1 km

  Cottesmore is a boarding preparatory school in the United Kingdom, founded in 1894.

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  Broadfield, West Sussex · 1.5 km

  Broadfield is one of 14 neighbourhoods within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England. Broadfield is located in the south west of the town. It is bordered by Bewbush to the north, Southgate to the north east and T…

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  Broadfield (electoral division) · 1.6 km

  Broadfield also known as Lowest Pease Pottage is an electoral division of West Sussex in the United Kingdom, and returns one member to sit on West Sussex County Council.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)