"A 90 second aerial pass by of the entire length of Ifield Brook Meadows in Crawley, West Sussex.

This video was created during a drone flight undertaken with the approval of ATC at Gatwick. Ifield Brook Meadows is a Flight Restricted Area.

The land within Crawley Borough Council’s administrative boundaries, to the back (west) of St. Margaret’s Church, known as Ifield Brook Meadows, is protected by a number of designations, set out in the Crawley Borough Local Plan (both the one adopted in 2015 and the emerging draft Review Plan). These relate to its importance for a number of different purposes:

Local Green Space: this is an overarching designation for its importance and value to the local community for recreation, visual amenity, tranquillity, wildlife, heritage and accessible countryside. Part of this site also includes the council owned playing fields on Rusper Road, to the south-eastern corner of the site (and outside of the Local Wildlife Site).

Conservation Area: the northern section of the Meadows falls within the Ifield Village Conservation Area, for its heritage value as an important element of the setting of the village and the Grade I Listed St Margaret's Church.

Local Wildlife Site: Ifield Brook Meadows have been independently identified by a panel of experts as a Local Wildlife Site for its importance as meadowland and associated wildlife.

Ancient Woodland: this runs along Ifield Brook in the southern part of the wider Meadows site (south of the Conservation Area)."