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Devolution is a word which has been thrown around considerably over recent years. At its simplest, devolution involves central government allowing more decisions to be taken closer to the people those decisions effect. Over the last two decades, the UK has gone from power resting exclusively in Westminster and councils to a range of new…
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Crawley Borough Council has accepted an invitation to join the Greater Brighton Economic Board. The council agreed to join the board, whose purpose is to bring about sustainable economic development and growth across Greater Brighton (the City Region) at the meeting of the Full Council last night (Wednesday 18 October). The board, which was founded…
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As Leader of Crawley Borough Council, I’d like to wish all residents a happy Diwali, particularly members of the town’s Hindu, Sikh and Jain communities. We are living in a time where there is greater uncertainty than the world has faced for decades, where it is all too easy to be brought down by the…
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Seventeen years ago, the Human Genome Project, the international effort to map out human DNA, announced they had completed a draft of the human genome and reiterated the old saying ‘there is only one race — the human race’. Race has never had any meaningful scientific definition, yet science has never been at the core…
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Today, businesses from across the sub-region descended on Crawley for the annual Gatwick Diamond Meet the Buyers event, co-sponsored by Crawley Borough Council. As a council, we are working to promote economic growth in the area. By helping people to ‘Buy Local’ whether it’s popping into town to use local shops or connecting Gatwick’s procurement…
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There’s often a difficult line to tread between having too few regulations and allowing people to be exploited, and having too many and treating people like children. One such area is gambling, you don’t want to stop people having a game of poker with friends or a flutter on the Grand National but is it…
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This morning I was privileged to be given an opening address to the South East England Faiths Forum, an organisation which exists to promote inter-faith understanding and active involvement in the local community and who were meeting at Worth Abbey. As an agnostic, it could have been a peculiar situation to find myself in and yet…
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Shoppers in Crawley can find out about how to support the homeless community at an information day in the Square outside Brewery Shades in November. In partnership with Crawley Open House, Crawley and Gatwick Business Watch, Crawley Borough Council are re-launching their diverted giving initiative that aims to encourage the public to donate to homelessness…
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It shouldn’t come as news to anyone that the UK has a housing crisis and while people propose many weird and wonderful explanations as to why this is the case, the real reason is simple: we’ve built far too few houses for far too long. For all the Government’s attempts to blame councils for not…
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Today is Social Saturday, a day raising awareness of social enterprises, businesses set up with social goals and not private profit in mind. There are approaching 100,000 social enterprises in the UK, helping communities across the length and breadth of the country. Not only do social enterprises benefit communities through their social goals, but due…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 