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Tell Crawley Borough Council about the impact of coronavirus on your business. The council, working together with Manor Royal BID, has released a new survey asking businesses to report how they have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. In response to the pandemic, the council has formed an Economic Recovery Task Force alongside local businesses,…
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It’s six years since I became Leader of Crawley Council. At the time I thought the challenges we faced were huge. The council’s budget was almost half what it had been when the cuts began, empty shops littered the town centre, and Crawley hadn’t built council housing in large numbers for decades. How on Earth…
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The news that Virgin and British Airways are set to pull out of Crawley forms a very sad episode in the history of the town and has come as a shock to many, not least to those individuals now facing unemployment and their families. I’m afraid to say that as things stand these job losses…
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Seventy-five years ago this week, victory was declared in Europe. To a generation which had twice in their lifetimes witnessed millions of lives lost in global warfare, the notion that after thousands of years of bloodshed we had seen the end of war in Europe would have been inconceivable. Yet, that is the legacy of…
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Cllr Peter Lamb, Labour Leader of Crawley Borough Council, has launched a campaign encouraging online shoppers to support local small businesses that have moved online during the coronavirus lockdown. Speaking about the campaign, Cllr Lamb said: “Over recent weeks, we have heard that Crawley’s economy has been hit harder than any other in the country.…
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Crawley Borough Council is inviting residents to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8 May with a difference. As VE day celebrations have been cancelled around the country due to the pandemic, the council will be marking the day with a variety of content on its Facebook page at facebook.com/crawleycouncil Throughout the…
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The Leader of Crawley Borough Council and the town’s MP have written to the Government calling for urgent help and listing 10 interventions to rescue the town’s economy. This follows the recent Centre for Cities report, which forecasts that Crawley will be the most affected economy by the coronavirus crisis. The report predicts that more…
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Local authorities across the UK are just weeks away from bankruptcy and while Covid-19 is the immediate cause, the roots of this crisis are much deeper. Over the last decade, councils have suffered cuts deeper than any other part of the public sector. At peak, Crawley Borough Council had a budget of £27m, by the…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 