Replacement windows
New Town houses were designed around wide casement openings, often with a fixed pane beside the opener. Like-for-like uPVC casements keep that look, and a change of frame colour is enough to update it.
Double glazing, windows and doors in Crawley
Replacement windows, doors and conservatory roofs for every Crawley neighbourhood, from a family firm eight miles along the A264.
- Every neighbourhood, from Pound Hill to Bewbush
- Glazing options for aircraft and road noise
- Our own fitters and a 10 year guarantee
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Holtye Windows in Crawley
Seventy years of New Town housing, and what it needs now
Most of Crawley was built between the 1950s and the 1990s, one neighbourhood at a time. That makes it unusually consistent: whole streets share the same house type, the same openings and, by now, the same tired windows.
We are based in East Grinstead, eight miles to the east along the A264. Everything is fitted by our own team, and the survey and written quote are free.
What we fit
Windows, doors and conservatories for Crawley homes
Supplied, fitted and guaranteed for 10 years by our own team. Nothing is subcontracted.
New doors
A composite front door is the usual replacement for the timber and early uPVC doors on Crawley’s terraces. At the back, bifold or sliding doors open a kitchen onto the garden.
Conservatories and extensions
Many houses in Maidenbower, Broadfield and Pound Hill gained a conservatory in the 1980s and 1990s. The polycarbonate roofs of that era are noisy in rain and of little use in August. A warm roof on the existing frames is usually the answer.
Home improvements
Timber fascias and bargeboards on the 1950s and 1960s houses are often at the end of their life. Replacing them in uPVC, with new guttering, ends the repainting.
Homes in Crawley
Fourteen neighbourhoods, two old villages and a High Street
Crawley is newer than its neighbours, but it is not all of one age.
Crawley was designated a New Town in 1947 and planned as nine neighbourhoods. West Green, Northgate, Three Bridges, Langley Green, Pound Hill, Ifield, Southgate and Tilgate were all built in the 1950s, and Gossops Green was finished by 1961. Furnace Green followed in the 1960s, Broadfield from 1969, Bewbush from the mid-1970s and Maidenbower in the 1990s. Forge Wood is still going up.
Older Crawley survives between them. The High Street was here long before the New Town, as were Ifield village and Worth, whose church is one of the finest Saxon buildings in England. Hazelwick Road in Three Bridges and Malthouse Road in Southgate are streets of late Victorian and Edwardian houses, built with sliding sashes, and both are conservation areas.
For most of the town the practical questions are simpler. Houses of the 1950s to the 1970s were sometimes built with no lintel over the window, the original frame carrying the brickwork above. We check for that at survey, because a new frame must not be asked to hold up a wall.
Our work
The kind of work Crawley asks us for
All our own installations, photographed on site across Sussex, Surrey and Kent. Select a photo to see it full size.
Local planning
Planning permission for windows and doors in Crawley
Crawley Borough Council is the planning authority. There are 13 conservation areas in the borough. As well as the older streets and villages they include, unusually, parts of the New Town itself: Queens Square and The Broadway, and the neighbourhood centres at Southgate and Gossops Green.
None of the 13 has an Article 4 direction restricting replacement windows or doors, so a house keeps the normal right to replace them with ones of similar appearance. The council’s statement for Hazelwick Road shows what it would like to see on a Victorian street, in order of preference: timber sliding sashes to the original pattern, then uPVC sliding sashes, with plain casements last.
A small part of the High Weald National Landscape lies inside the borough’s southern edge, beyond the A264 at Broadfield. Almost all of Crawley’s housing is outside it.
The national rules, briefly
- Replacing the windows and doors of a house does not normally need planning permission, as long as the new ones look similar to the old.
- Flats and maisonettes do not have that right, and a listed building needs listed building consent. Check with the council before changing either.
- Every replacement window and external door has to meet Building Regulations. We’re Certass registered, so we certify the work ourselves and you receive the certificate within eight weeks.
- A conservatory or single-storey rear extension is often permitted development too, within size limits that tighten in conservation areas and protected landscapes.
Worth knowing locally
Aircraft, the M23 and the main line
Gatwick is inside the borough, and the council’s own Local Plan describes the land between the town and the airport as heavily constrained by noise. The loudest contours cover the airport and Lowfield Heath. The neighbourhoods themselves lie outside them, but Langley Green, Ifield, Forge Wood and Pound Hill hear the aircraft every day.
Elsewhere the noise is on the ground: the M23 beside Maidenbower and Pound Hill, the A23, and the Brighton main line through Three Bridges. The remedy is the same in each case, and it is the glass. Acoustic laminated double glazing fits a standard frame. Triple glazing and secondary glazing go further.
Homes close to the airport may qualify for Gatwick’s Noise Insulation Scheme, which offers grants towards double glazing. The airport’s website has a map showing which addresses are inside the scheme boundary.
Projects
Recent projects near Crawley
The nearest jobs we have written up in full, with photos and the detail of what was done.
White aluminium bifold doors
A five-pane white aluminium bifold across the full width of a garden-facing room, with blinds sealed inside the glass.
View project5 miles from Crawley
Summer house windows and doors
Tired timber windows and double doors on a garden summer house, replaced with white PVCu frames and Georgian bars.
View project8 miles from Crawley
Whole-house renovation
Windows, doors, a Supalite warm roof extension, kitchen, cloakroom, flooring and decorating — all handled by one team from start to finish.
View project8 miles from Crawley
Customer reviews
What our customers say
Rated 10/10 from 149 reviews on Checkatrade, where we’ve been a vetted member since 2014.
Where we work
Crawley and the places around it
We cover the whole of Crawley, and we don’t stop at the edge of town.
- Bewbush
- Broadfield
- Forge Wood
- Furnace Green
- Gossops Green
- Ifield
- Langley Green
- Maidenbower
- Northgate
- Pound Hill
- Southgate
- Three Bridges
- Tilgate
- West Green
- Kilnwood Vale
- Pease Pottage
- Faygate
- Rusper
- Charlwood
Nearby areas: Copthorne, Horley, Horsham, East Grinstead, Haywards Heath. See everywhere we cover.
Questions
Crawley: your questions
Can’t see what you need? Call 01342 410079 and we’ll answer it properly.
Do I need planning permission to replace windows in Crawley?
Not normally for a house, as long as the new windows look similar to the old ones. Crawley has 13 conservation areas, but none has an Article 4 direction on windows or doors. Flats and listed buildings need consent, and in a conservation area it is worth a call to the borough council’s planning team before you order.
My neighbours all have the same windows. Do mine have to match?
Not by law, outside a conservation area, as long as the new windows are similar in appearance to the old ones. In practice a terrace looks better when the frame colour and the pattern of openers stay consistent, and we will show you what works on your house type.
Can you replace a conservatory roof without rebuilding the conservatory?
Usually, yes. A warm roof is designed to sit on the existing frames, provided they are sound and can carry the weight, which we check at survey. Our conservatory roofs are JHAI-approved, which takes care of the Building Regulations side.
Will new glazing help with aircraft noise near Gatwick?
Yes, if the glass is chosen for it. Standard double glazing helps a little. Acoustic laminated glass, triple glazing and secondary glazing all do more, and bedrooms facing the airport are where the extra is most worth spending.
Which parts of Crawley do you cover?
All fourteen neighbourhoods, from Ifield and Bewbush in the west to Pound Hill, Maidenbower and Forge Wood in the east, along with Kilnwood Vale, Pease Pottage, Faygate, Rusper and Charlwood.
Free quotations
Ready for a quote in Crawley?
Book a free, no-obligation survey at your home in Crawley, or come and see us at the East Grinstead showroom.