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The Household Support Fund is designed to help families hit by the cost of living crisis. Over the last year, the poorest households in West Sussex struggling to make ends meet received support worth £24,351,810.54 to help with food and energy costs, but with the scheme coming to an end these houreholds are now at…
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Fuel poverty, defined as needing to spend 10% or more of a household’s gross income on fuel to achieve an adequate level of heating. In all 4,431 households in Crawley are identified as currently suffering from fuel poverty, 10% of the town’s total population. While the rising cost of energy over the last two years…
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Hopefully the coverage by Spotted and the Crawley Observer has helped to shed a little light on this, but given that I keep being asked about it I thought I’d set out everything in once place I could refer people back to. The very short version The council has a statutory obligation to house recently-arrived…
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Schools in Crawley are amongst the 92% set to receive less funding next year, according to research by ‘Stop School Cuts‘. A mere two schools in Crawley will avoid a funding cut in the next year, with all other schools having to absorb further cuts to their budget after over a decade of Austerity. It…
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If there is one thing you can do to help Labour to win it is to vote early using a postal vote. I cannot state this enough. It achieves this in several ways: It ensures that nothing might happen between now and Election Day which prevents you from getting to a polling station Studies have…
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Tax Policy Associates (TPA) recently published a map outlining all the property in England and Wales which has been registered with Companies House since it became a requirement early last year. For Crawley, these holdings are mostly distributed like this. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the town centre and Manor Royal have the majority of these overseas-owned holdings.…
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Following reports that police chiefs have been ordered to arrest fewer people as a last ditch measure to address prison overcrowding, Peter Lamb—Labour candidate for Crawley—has written to the Home Secretary to demand assurances that the new edict will not put residents’ safety at risk. Prisons in England and Wales are currently facing record prison…
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Figures published by the Commons Library at the end of last year confirm that the average gross wages for those living in the constituency remain below not only the regional median wage, but the national median wage. This often comes as a surprise for people, as the average weekly earlings paid within the constituency are…
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While Highways is, of course, a county council responsibility, fairly often people write to me asking about what a roadwork is for or how long it will be in place. Of course, I always do my best to help, but the reality is that in general borough councillors have exactly the same routes for accessing…
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Communities and high streets are being blighted by staggering increases in shoplifting with cases in Sussex up by 45%, the biggest increase in the country After a decade long campaign, Ministers have now u-turned on introducing a new law to tackle shopworker abuse with package of measures that are a ‘pale imitation’ of Labour’s offer…
