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Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership is spearheading the Brighton Mainline Alliance, a group of businesses and organisations that support the aim for Government to fully commit to funding strategic investment in the Brighton Mainline, specifically to unlock the Croydon bottleneck. This investment is vital to drive growth and productivity across the whole region, protect…
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Over the last two weeks there has been a more visible police presence in Crawley than I can remember in a long time. While it is good that after all the recent media attention we finally seem to be getting the resources we need to try and tackle the rise in violence and drugs in…
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Over the last week there’s been considerable discussion about police numbers in Crawley and whether we have enough to tackle the wave of drugs and violence we’re facing on our streets. The trigger for this debate was a remark I made following the latest stabbing and the need to bring an end to the decline…
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Crawley Borough Council has successfully recovered a property in Three Bridges after discovering that it was being used by the tenant to run a car parts and accessories business. The investigation was initially launched by the council’s Fraud Investigation Team who received an anonymous tip off, alleging that the tenant was not residing at the…
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Crawley council is giving its backing to a Unite Construction Charter that seeks to ensure that conditions for workers on construction projects under local authority control in Crawley meet the highest standards. Peter Lamb, leader of the council has committed to back the charter and has included the commitment in the Labour council’s manifesto. The…
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No one should fault the hard-work and dedication of our police officers, they on a daily basis put themselves in jeopardy to try to keep us safe from harm. Yet, while we applaud the efforts of individual officers, we must confront the clear reality that Sussex Police are no longer able to deal with the…
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There has been lots of discussion this week about Labour’s ‘Build it in Britain’ policy. The basic idea being that when large amounts of taxpayer money are being spent on infrastructure or goods, the Government should try to spend the money in a way which promotes British industry. The amounts of money we are talking…
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Over the Summer, John Howarth, Labour Member of the European Parliament for the South East, is hosting a series of guest blogs on his website looking into some of the lesser known implications of Brexit where we live. As Labour Leader on Crawley BC, I was asked to write about what Brexit means for the…
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Democracy about the day-to-day, not just an occasional election. Yet, while in Athens the small number of citizens could participate in every debate, in modern times population size and the complexity of issues force us to rely upon elected representatives to plead our case between elections. Manifestos can set out the bulk of what candidates…
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Earlier this week I had the pleasure of showing the Greater Brighton Economic Board around our town. The board is made up of a combination of local authorities, education providers, economic groups and businesses covering our region and has responsibility for growing the economy in our part of the South East, with its own council-like…
