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Crawley residents have have until tomorrow (16th April) at 11.59pm to register to vote in this year’s Crawley Borough Council/Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner elections. The process takes less than five minutes and you can do it online by going to: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Local authorities are responsible for a quarter of public services in the UK,…
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Since 2015, knife crime offences in Sussex–Crawley’s local policing area–have grown from 36 per 100,000 people to 57 per 100,000 people last year, an increase of 58%. It is clear that the soft-touch approach to knife crime taken by Sussex Police since the Police and Crime Commissioner took office simply isn’t working. Despite the Conservatives…
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Analysis of the Government’s own figures on council tax levels reveals that Labour-run local authorities on average not only keep council tax £276 lower than Conservative councils, but they also invest more on the things that matter to local people including: crime reduction, economic development, children centres and youth services, as well as street cleaning…
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Two and a half years on since Crawley’s Conservative MP voted to continue to allow water companies to dump raw sewage into local waterways, the problem has predictably continued to get worse. In the last year, Crawley has experienced almost double the number of sewage dumpings in our watercourses, with 69 individual releases. Across the…
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In all, I believe I’ve had the chance to vote in 24 elections of one type or another, plus a couple of referenda. Despite this, I believe that the last time that I went to a polling station to cast my own vote was my first election, when I was 18 years old. For me…
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The latest Police Workforce Statistics reveal that since 2015, the earliest year for which there are published figures, the numbers of neighbourhood police officers and PSCOs in Sussex has been cut by 147, or 26%. Since taking office, Sussex’s Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner has almost doubled their share of Crawley’s council tax since taking…
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In their latest release on private rents and house prices, the Office for National Statistics painted a fairly depressing picture , with the cost of renting privately having grown nationally by 9% in the last 12 months, against an inflation rate of 3.8% over the same period. While local variation obviously exists, in Crawley’s case…
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Britain’s economy is performing £140bn worse than it would have done had it maintained the average of the OECD over the past decade. That’s equivalent to £5,000 per household every year, with a total for the town’s economy as a whole of £227.5m. Had Britain grown in-line with our competitors that would mean an additional…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 