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While most residents will have had leaflets through already and many will have had a doorstep call, yesterday marked the official beginning of this year’s Crawley Borough Council elections. Crawley gets more than its fair share of elections. In three of every four years a third of Crawley Borough Council is up for election, with…
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Councillor Peter Lamb has backed Labour’s pledge to protect private renters in England from eviction with new ‘indefinite’ tenancies, based on rules currently in place in Germany. The change would revolutionise the private rental market, potentially benefitting 10,759 of Crawley’s households (covering approximately 22.6% of all 47,576 properties in Crawley). German tenancies last, on average,…
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For the last five years, Crawley Borough Council has worked hard to show we can maintain services, despite cuts from Government. While West Sussex County Council provides less and less for more and more council tax, our local NHS has gone into financial Special Measures and Crawley’s Police can’t afford the officers they need to…
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How does a man come to the point of planning and carrying out the murder of 50 men, women and children peacefully praying in places of worship? For many the answer is easy: the perpetrator of the Christchurch mosque killings was evil or just a lone madman, but that answer is both simple and wrong.…
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A new report by Independent Age reveals that the quality of care homes has worsened in the last year in more than a third of English local authorities. Independent Age’s figures show that 22.1 per cent of West Sussex’s care homes are failing – down 4.8 points in just a year. Crawley Borough Council Leader…
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Last weekend I was a guests on Sunday Politics South East, alongside Sussex’s Police Commissioner, the MP for East Worthing and Shoreham and the Leader of Medway. Being up against three Conservatives might seem a little unbalanced, but four years on West Sussex County Council provided plenty of experience standing up for our area in…
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I’m A Celebrity star and world silver medallist diver on hand at the K2 Crawley for the free family Open Day on 16th March. Singer and songwriter, Fleur East, will be at the K2 Crawley from 10:30am to meet and greet the public and help showcase the centre’s fantastic facilities. Fleur East, X Factor 2014 runner-up,…
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Representing Crawley at national events, I get the chance to speak with mayors and council leaders responsible for running local services across the country, with funding council services during Austerity being one of the most regular topics of conversation. Through all these conversations I’ve yet to find another authority which, despite annual cuts from Government,…
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Crawley Borough Council’s budget for 2019/20 will protect frontline services, provide extra funding to combat homelessness and continue to invest in the town. The budget was approved at a meeting of Full Council on Wednesday (27 February). The council’s 2019/20 budget includes: · £7m to purchase investment properties. The rental income generated from these will be…
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A weekly sports and activities club for young people with disabilities and their families is on offer at K2 Crawley. Moving Barriers is a local activity session aimed at offering children and young people with disabilities the opportunity to socialise, have fun and keep fit with a variety of activities and team games. Run by…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 