Uncategorized How to making council housing sustainable without doing away with ‘Right to Buy’ 3 Jan 20222 Jan 2022 For every four council properties we build in Crawley, we know we will lose three to Right-to-Buy by the time they are built. Increasing the overall supply of new affordable…
Uncategorized New Year Column, Crawley Observer 30 Dec 202124 Dec 2021 2021, much like 2020, might well have felt like a year in which nothing happened. Certainly, the pandemic postponed much of what we might like to have done personally and…
Uncategorized Christmas Column, Crawley Observer 23 Dec 202123 Dec 2021 It will be a decade next year since I started as Labour Group Leader on Crawley Borough Council and began writing this column. In that time the Christmas column has…
Uncategorized ‘First they came for those with dual nationalities’, Crawley Observer column 16 Dec 202114 Dec 2021 Over recent weeks, the phrase ‘dead cat’ has kept cropping up in relation to news stories from Government. It’s not a pleasant image, but it originates in advice given to…
Uncategorized Crawley bids for city status 15 Dec 202114 Dec 2021 Crawley’s bid to become the first new town to be named a city was submitted to the government last week. The 2022 bid – on the diamond anniversary of the…
Uncategorized Keep yourself, your loved ones and Crawley safe this Christmas, get your booster now 13 Dec 2021 Cllr Peter Lamb, Leader of Crawley Borough Council, is calling on the people of Crawley to book their booster jabs as part of a major national effort to protect the…