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The full panel for this year’s Crawley Question Time has been announced. The event, which takes place from 7-9pm on Thursday 14 March in the Civic Hall, gives residents an opportunity to ask questions about topics important to them. This year’s panel is: Councillor Peter Lamb, Leader of Crawley Borough Council Councillor Duncan Crow, Leader…
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At tonight’s Full Council I’ll be proposing Crawley Borough Council’s Budget for the year. I’m proud to say after five years of Labour control, and in the face of unprecedented cuts from central government, we’re still spending the same on services today as when I became Council Leader, with improvements in efficiency being reinvested to…
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Official figures reveal that last month only 83.2% per cent of patients (1,552 patients) at East Surrey Hospital were seen in A&E within four hours. Trusts are supposed to ensure that 95 per cent of patients are seen in that time period. This is even lower than the English average of 84.4 per cent, which…
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During my four years on West Sussex County Council one issue which kept rearing its head was ‘fracking’, the controversial process through which companies extract oil and natural gas from shale rock using chemicals and vast amounts of water. As this process takes place below ground water level and between potentially unstable plates of rock, there…
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Under the Conservatives the lowest cost season ticket from Three Bridges to London Victoria has gone up from £2,804 in 2010 to, as of last month, £3816 per year. That’s a growth of over £1,000, a 36% rise dwarfing the increasing costs of almost everything else, except perhaps housing. Transport and housing, two things people can…
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Crawley Borough Council’s Cabinet has proposed a balanced budget for 2019/20, protecting frontline services, continuing to invest in the town and improving the council’s efficiency. The budget was debated by the Cabinet on Wednesday (6 February). Members unanimously recommended approval of the budget to Full Council on 27 February. Crawley will suffer a further 89.7…
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Crawley Question Time is back for another year, giving residents an opportunity to ask questions about topics important to them. The annual event takes place from 7-9pm on Thursday 14 March in the Civic Hall in the town centre. Crawley Question Time takes the form of an independently-chaired general debate and discussion. There are no…
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In Figures Revealed Following A Request Made By Labour Councillor Geraint Thomas This week it emerged that the ratio of residents to General Practitioners in Crawley is one of the worst in the UK; the figures show that there is 1 doctor for every 2,226 residents in Crawley. To put that statistic into perspective, Rushcliffe…
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This evening, Crawley Council’s Cabinet will set the budget we’ll be sending to Full Council for members to agree later in the month. I’ve often written about the unfair way the Government has cut the amount councils and the police get from Income Tax–where those who earn more pay more–and have demanded that we increase…
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Local Labour Party Continues Call For The Beleaguered School To Return To Public Hands Last week, Tilgate’s struggling academy school Thomas Bennett Community College was officially marked down by the Department for Education as one of 382 secondary schools failing to meet the government’s minimum standard. Mismanagement and repeated cuts handed down by The Kemnal…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 