page_title: Forge Wood
hierarchical_section_title: Forge Wood
caption_attribution_description: Rough pastures south of Radford Road/Tinsley Green Lane, Tinsley Green, Crawley, West Sussex, England. East of the Brighton Main Line, on which a train is running in the background. This is part of the "Crawley North East Sector", for which a planning application for a new residential neighbourhood was submitted in 1998. Additional note (2014): this field is slightly outside the "Revised Application Site Boundary" which appears on the latest site masterplan. The north–south footpath on which I am standing forms part of the boundary, which then continues in a southwesterly direction along a hedge line a few yards off camera to the left. Immediately inside the boundary will be a road fronted with housing and a "neighbourhood square". The development will be called Forge Wood.
context_page_description: Forge Wood is a residential area under construction in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Upon completion in 2026, it will be the fourteenth neighbourhood within Crawley New Town. The 1,900 houses and other facilities will be built on open land in the northeast of the borough, adjoining the ancient village of Tinsley Green and to the north of the Pound Hill neighbourhood.
  Forge Wood was known as the North East Sector until December 2013, when the present name was adopted in reference to an area of ancient woodland within its boundaries. The site has a long and complex planning history dating back to 1998. Crawley Borough Council, which owned much of the poor-quality pastureland which characterises the area, favoured developing it for housing; but opponents of the plans raised concerns over flooding, noise pollution and the proximity of the proposed second runway should expansion of Gatwick Airport go ahead. The airport lies a short distance to the north of the site, and a motorway and a main railway line are also adjacent.
context_section_description: Forge Wood is a residential area under construction in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.  Upon completion in 2026, it will be the fourteenth neighbourhood within Crawley New Town.  The 1,900 houses and other facilities will be built on open land in the northeast of the borough, adjoining the ancient village of Tinsley Green and to the north of the Pound Hill neighbourhood.
  Forge Wood was known as the North East Sector until December 2013, when the present name was adopted in reference to an area of ancient woodland within its boundaries.  The site has a long and complex planning history dating back to 1998.  Crawley Borough Council, which owned much of the poor-quality pastureland which characterises the area, favoured developing it for housing; but opponents of the plans raised concerns over flooding, noise pollution and the proximity of the proposed second runway should expansion of Gatwick Airport go ahead.  The airport lies a short distance to the north of the site, and a motorway and a main railway line are also adjacent.  After many alterations, resubmissions and a legal challenge, outline planning permission for 1,900 houses was granted in February 2011, and construction began in 2014.
caption: Rough pastureland south of Radford Road in Tinsley Green, photographed in 2009.  This land is on the boundary of the application site.
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