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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…
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Politicians like to talk in extremes; it makes it easier to put a point across and tends to sound more convincing. Before the election George Osborne was keen to stress that if the UK lost its AAA credit rating it would be a ‘disaster’ for Britain — how things change — while Labour likes contrasting…
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Privatisation is back on the Conservatives’ agenda and this time they have local fire services in their sights. Last week it was revealed that Brandon Lewis, Minister for fire services, had written to the Regulatory Reform Committee seeking a change in the law which would enable fire and rescue services to be handed over to…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 