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If there’s one issue which comes up on the doorstep wherever I knock doors in Crawley it’s parking. We know it’s a major problem for people, many of the town’s neighbourhoods were designed at a time when car ownership was a rarity and yet, despite the ratio of cars to people having declined in Crawley…
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On Saturday we officially re-opened Queens Square with a public celebration. It may seem like it has taken a while to complete, but if a job’s worth doing it’s worth doing well. Afterall, it took ten years from Crawley’s designation as a New Town for the original square to be completed. The new design was…
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Delivering better life chances, for people of all ages, is the core of my work as a Labour council leader. Since becoming Leader, I have sought to achieve this through focusing the council’s efforts on the three things which have the greatest impact upon people’s life chances: jobs, housing and community. Of these things, the…
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As the range of ways in which we communicate and get our news grow in number, advocacy groups are being forced to work increasingly hard to gain our attention. So, it’s little wonder that a new ‘day’, ‘week’, ‘month’ or even ‘year’ is being announced almost every hour, from ‘Living Wage Week’ to ‘International Day of…
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Yesterday, I was very pleased to have the opportunity to launch ‘Employ Crawley’, the first part of our Jobs and Skills Plan and a project designed to offer better career opportunities for local residents though providing access to the jobs, skills and training they need. It’s an ambitious project and very similar to one announced…
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After years of warnings, the gradual disappearance of Police Officers and PCSOs from our streets, with all of its predictable consequences, is starting to gain wider recognition. Even our local Police and Crime Commissioner, after years of saying operational matters were none of her business (perhaps not, but her constituents might expect her to take…
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This morning we found out that Cllr John Stanley had passed away last Tuesday. To lose anyone is painful enough, but John was still a young man and had unbelievable energy. It was far from rare to get half a dozen emails from John in a day, he was always on top of any problem…
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Crawley Labour council cabinet members have welcomed 14.6 million pounds of Local Growth Funding from the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership. Crawley’s Labour council has been working with partners at West Sussex County Council for the last three years to secure this grant funding from the C2CLEP. The approval by the LEP board represents…
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There’s an urban legend about a B-52 being escorted to a show by a fighter jet. The jet pilot is showing off, pulling off daring manoeuvres and boasting to pilot of the B-52. Eventually the bomber’s pilot agrees to show what he can do, yet after several minutes of apparently nothing happening the fighter pilot…
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As funny as it may have been to see the Prime Minister handed a fake P45, to have the letters of her party’s conference slogan fall from the wall while she was speaking and for the consequences of her deciding to tackle the speech despite a bout of conference flu (of which I have been…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 