Pease Pottage

7°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 10° / 5° · 15% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 6° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:00Sunset 16:28

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

42US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Storrington Roadside, United Kingdom

• 7.1 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 5.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

65 reported · August 2026▼ 17% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour22
• Violence & sexual offences21
• Criminal damage & arson7
• Other theft3

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

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

211 reported road collisions (2025)

52 killed or seriously injured · 289 casualties · 17.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

127 food businesses within 2 miles

• 97 rated 4–5 ★ (85 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

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

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£332,097 average▲ 1.5% YoY

Across Crawley · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,488 average monthly rent▲ 2.8% YoY

• 1 bed £1,067
• 2 bed £1,385
• 3 bed £1,642

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

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

1,069 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (1.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (1.7 km)

7 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK6,980
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,897
• Net moves−917

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 109 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

1% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Crawley

991 CQC-registered services

• Care homes342
• GP practices107
• Dentists220
• 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)

50 applications decided

86% granted · 43 granted, 7 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

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)

4,690 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

136 jobs advertised · £41,529 avg

e.g. Store Manager, Design Technology Teacher, Field Service Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£762 median full-time weekly pay

4.7% 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

46% low-carbon electricity

Gas 41% · Wind 33% · Imports 13% · Nuclear 9%

183 gCO₂/kWh · high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83.7 yrs women · 79.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy (West Sussex): 64.5 women · 63.1 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

13 GP surgeries · 8 pharmacies in RH11

• Leacroft Medical Practice
• Gossops Green Medical Ctr
• Ifield Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

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

• Permanent driving ban on intoxicated drivers guilty of causing death535 local signatures · 29,985 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks377 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND237 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills217 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately185 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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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)