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With the England lockdown starting on Thursday, several Crawley Borough Council buildings and services will close or operate differently. The Town Hall will close at 4pm on Tuesday 3 November. Despite this, our services will continue to operate and we will be providing additional services for our most vulnerable residents and distributing the latest round…
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An ex-Crawley resident has pleaded guilty to giving false information to a Community Warden after being caught littering. Crawley Borough Council successfully prosecuted ex-Crawley resident, Natalie Bunting of Redehall Road, Horley under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, for providing a false or inaccurate name or address and non-payment of the Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN). Mrs…
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It has been over a year since the government announced Crawley would receive up to £25m as one of 100 Town Deals, yet 13 months on Crawley has not seen a penny of the money. The government announced ‘Town Deals’ last year in the run-up to the General Election, with the stated purpose of ‘supporting…
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No child should go hungry over Christmas. That’s why, despite MPs voting to discontinue free school meals over the holiday, Crawley Borough Council will be stepping in to put a local scheme in place. Crawley has been hit harder by COVID-19 than any other part of the country. The government’s decision to ignore the example…
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Crawley Borough Council is developing a local scheme to provide free school meals to every eligible child this Christmas. To help fund this, the council has just launched a crowdfunding page, with the council seeking to match-fund community donations. Residents and businesses are being asked to donate money, which will be used to provide supermarket…
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I am determined to ensure that local kids don’t go hungry this Christmas. Crawley Borough Council is not the Education Authority for Crawley, consequently we do not know who is eligible for Free School Meals. We do know the overall figure was 2,511 back in January, but given the job losses which have taken place…
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Cllr Peter Lamb, Labour Leader of Crawley Borough Council, calls on the Government to fund free school meals throughout the holiday Even before the pandemic, a third of Crawley’s children were growing up in poverty. Now, with more families in Crawley facing unemployment than ever before, the need to ensure children from low-income households are…
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Local government has a long history in England, its earliest roots going back to William the Conqueror. Over the centuries, various responsibilities were devolved from central government, with different local boards set up to undertake them. As time went on this produced a confusing mess of overlapping structures and, at the end of Nineteenth Century,…
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Since April, I have been warning that due to the impact of COVID-19 on local government finances, Crawley Borough Council will be forced to make its first cuts in six years. While the focus nationally has been on the immediate costs of tackling the pandemic, these cuts aren’t just about getting through the next year,…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 