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Conservative councillors this week rejected Labour’s compromise deal on the Local Plan, leaving Crawley defenceless against hostile development. Before Christmas, the Conservative Cabinet at Crawley Borough Council failed to pass their draft of the Local Plan following public opposition to a number of its proposals and, after rejecting amendments to resolve these issues, members of…
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Labour councillors will be voting to freeze Council Tax for this year and, if elected in May, a Labour council would also freeze Council Tax in 2015/16. Council budgets are stretched but by baselining funding equivalent to an annual one percent increase in Council Tax into the council’s Revenue Support Grant the cost of freezing…
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Crawley’s Cabinet is meeting tonight to decide the budget they’ll be proposing to Full Council in a couple of weeks’ time. The Budget takes months to form, with officers starting the process of putting a new one together almost as soon as the previous one has passed. Given the failure of the Conservative administration to…
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The State of the Borough The Crawley Debate Crawley Question Time is being held this Wednesday and I will be a member of the panel answering questions from the public, along with my Conservative opposite number. Last year the format restricted the public and members of the panel to only discussing proposals for a second…
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Crawley’s Labour councillors have called on the Government to pay back money illegally taken from local residents. Following an admission by the Department for Work and Pensions that the Bedroom Tax has been levied on a number of residents who were legally protected under Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Regulations (2006), Peter Lamb and…
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Crawley’s Labour councillors have called on the Government to pay back money illegally taken from local residents. Following an admission by the Department for Work and Pensions that the Bedroom Tax has been levied on a number of residents who were legally protected under Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Regulations (2006), Peter Lamb and…
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Crawley Labour party has announced that, if it takes control of the Borough Council in May 2014, it will immediately commence work towards implementing an investment programme in Crawley’s infrastructure. Manor Royal is the economic heart of both West Sussex and the Gatwick Diamond providing 30,000 jobs (40% of Crawley’s employment) and 19% of all…
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Our town faces many challenges in the years ahead, some big, some small and all of which require considerable vision and leadership for Crawley to thrive. Perhaps the biggest issue facing most people these days is the rising cost of living, somehow pensions and pay packets don’t seem to stretch as far as they used…
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Did you know that statistics show that people who eat porridge are more likely to end up in a car accident? It’s true, but before you reach for the cornflakes it’s worth asking why that might be the case. Could it simply be that people most frequently eat porridge during cold weather when, coincidentally, ice…
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Last week I took part in a demonstration outside the Town Hall with members of the Independent Tenants’ Association. The demo was to raise awareness of the Bedroom Tax’s impact, following in the wake of Stephanie Bottrill’s suicide. It would be wrong to focus too much on a single case, but it is at times…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 