Peter Lamb for Crawley – Page 64 – Delivering for Crawley

About Peter

My name’s Peter Lamb and I’m asking for your support to build a better future for Crawley. Crawley is my home. It’s where I was born, where I went to school, and where I’ve served the community for the last 16 years. As Leader of Crawley Borough Council, I oversaw…Continue reading “About Peter”

Department of Education figures reveal majority of West Sussex schools in poor condition

3 Oct 202324 Sep 2023

Attention around school buildings is understandably currently focused on the issue of deadly concrete in schools. As already covered, in West Sussex there are 114 local authority maintained schools (we…

Over a third of Crawley’s children now living in poverty

2 Oct 20236 Mar 2024

Over the summer, Loughborough University, in partnership with the End Child Poverty Coalition, released their latest annual report looking at child poverty in the UK at the constituency level. As…

Crawley’s woodland cover

1 Oct 20236 Mar 2024

I have previously written about how, for all the negativity the town sometimes receives about being a 'concrete jungle', Crawley actually contains one of the highest levels of urban green…

GP numbers in West Sussex

30 Sep 20236 Mar 2024

The House of Commons Library has recently released a data dashboard breaking down data around GP and patient numbers by constituency. It highlights that the biggest mismatch between doctors and…

Core spending power in Crawley

A few days back, I ran across a spreadsheet detailing council grant funding, spending and core spending power since 2015 across English local authorities. Of these, the most significant figure…

18,166 adults in Crawley rationing energy to keep up with debt payments

28 Sep 20236 Mar 2024

One year on from the Tories’ disastrous mini-budget, new analysis from Crawley Labour – building on a StepChange survey for BBC Money Box – reveals a staggering 18,166 Crawley adults…