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New figures reveal crime in Crawley has risen by 13% in under a year, including a staggering 77% increase in Tilgate. The figures have prompted renewed calls from the town’s Labour councillors for frontline Police cuts to be reversed. Sussex Police figures reveal that between August last year and July 2019—the most recent month for…
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Every country has a constitution, the UK might be rare in that our constitution is found in an uncodified collection of laws, books and traditions rather than a single written document, but it remains a constitution nonetheless. That constitution sets down the rules as to how our country will run itself, including the checks and…
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Following the release of new figures showing that Government cuts to police budgets are over three times greater than the recently announced new funding, Cllr Peter Lamb has called for Boris Johnson to keep his word and return Crawley’s police funding. Since the Conservatives came to power, Sussex Police—who are responsible for policing in Crawley—have…
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Earlier this year, Crawley Borough Council joined with other local authorities and legislatures around the world to declare a climate emergency, recognising the rapidly decreasing window of opportunity mankind has to stop catastrophic climate change. While the challenge is global, this is a war which can only be won if action taken by every individual…
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The two biggest decisions for our town for many years have arisen over the last few months: Gatwick Airport have asked to be allowed to bring forward a second runway by using both their main and stand-by runways at the same time and Homes England, a successor body to the Commission for New Towns which…
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As MPs are sent off on an enforced five week holiday, only a week after their last one, Crawley Borough Council is hard at work doing what we can to keep services services going and to work out how, best as possible, to protect residents from the implications of Brexit. This is extremely hard to…
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This afternoon the Chancellor will be presenting the outcome of his snap one-year Spending Review, detailing the Government’s planned expenditure on services for the next year. There are a few things which are unusual about this review, the first is because spending reviews involve planning how the Government will spend over a third of the…
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How does a council survive when the Government takes away its entire grant and then prepares to take over £1.3m more? They could make cuts. That’s what the Conservatives did when they ran Crawley, what they’re doing at West Sussex, and at Conservative-controlled councils across the UK. Alternatively, they could find the money elsewhere. Only…
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In advance of the Government’s Spending Review, I have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in support of Crisis’s campaign to see the current Local Housing Allowance raised. Sounds boring? Maybe, but it is one of the biggest changes which the Government could make to address homelessness in the UK right now. The…
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‘I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. And I warn you not to grow old’. Over 36 years ago, these words highlighted those who would be hit hardest when a Government allows public services to crumble. Yet, here we are, in a new century, and they could just…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 