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Hundreds of electric car owners have taken advantage of the rapid charge point outside the Town Hall since it was installed two years ago. The rapid point, which fully charges an electric car in just 30 minutes, was installed next to the Civic Hall in July 2015. Since then, 653 cars have been charged, with…
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Why do public services exist? We have services like the Police, Fire Service and the Army to keep us safe. Services such as the NHS and Social Security give us the opportunity to survive when we fall on tough times. While, Education and Transport help us get on with our lives. Public services exist to…
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The risks of fire and its consequences are rightly in the news at the moment, as people come to terms with the fact many of the places where we live and work might not be as safe as we had once thought. As we debate what actions can and must be taken, it is the…
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Horsham District Council’s Sussex Building Control team scooped three major awards with their business partners at the 2017 South East Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Building Excellence Awards on 23 June. The awards are the largest business to business awards in the building control sector and recognise quality, innovation, craftsmanship and compliance with building regulations…
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Crawley Borough Council is proposing to provide 79 more car parking spaces at K2 Crawley, its hugely popular leisure centre. The expansion, which will see the number of spaces rise to 549, will take place in 2018 at a cost of £170,000, subject to planning permission. The additional parking spaces will be created by removing…
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For the last three days everyone who is anyone in local government has been camped out in Birmingham, working through the issues we face as a sector and as Leader it was my responsibility to head-up Crawley’s delegation. In practice, the conference is much like any other, some minor administrative item of business have to…
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For the last seven years we’ve been told there’s no money for police and firefighters, no money for schools and hospitals, no money for transport infrastructure and council services. Last week, Theresa May found a billion pounds down the back of the sofa to buy the votes of DUP MPs, a party whose views belong…
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Residents are being asked for their views on plans for a major redevelopment in the town centre. The proposals for land at the eastern end of The Boulevard will see the current Town Hall replaced with a new Town Hall with grade A commercial offices for rent to help fund local services, a new public…
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The UK may be making its way out of Europe, but there’s at least one new link between the South East and the EU: John Howarth MEP. Despite the–frankly–rather boring debate about electoral systems, in the UK we do actually run a few different sorts of electoral models which represent support more proportionally than the…
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Councillors gathered at the Town Hall to unveil a portrait honouring the late Bert Crane. Created by artist Nick Smith, the portrait hangs in the committee room corridor and was unveiled by the Mayor of Crawley, Councillor Brian Quinn along with Bert’s wife Valerie. Thought to be one of the longest continuous serving councillors when…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 