Crawley Council are rightly pleased about the renovation of the Langley Green parade and the surrounding area, concentrating on the design details in this press release. A while ago I stopped there myself to use the shops and while being pleased with the improved parking arrangements I also noticed the distinctive bollards. I can remember [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Crawley Council'
Nothing says Christmas quite like…
December 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
…a whole street full of black sacks because the rubbish wasn’t collected this week.
It is going to look lovely tomorrow after the huge cat population have an overnight shredding spree.
Tags: Bah Humbug!·Crawley Council
Northgate byelection
October 8th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics
Next week there is a byelection in the Northgate ward of Crawley, following the resignation of a councillor. It could be interesting. The area used to be 100% Labour, but for the past 15(?) years it has had Lib Dem borough councillors and Labour county councillors, and earlier this year elected its first Tory to [...]
Tags: Crawley·Crawley Council·Elections
Council secrecy in Crawley
September 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Politics
One of the local papers this week has a story that is not only interesting, but even displays an element of investigative journalism and even a surprise. It would have been more impressive if it had been published six weeks ago when the council meeting and vote that it relates to actually occurred – I [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Freemasons·Horsham Council·Internet·secret squirrel·WSCC
Council’s help
January 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
The Crawley News has a piece about the council’s measures to help the town’s economy and try to protect residents from the worst effects as the global economy melts down. Its a very laudable ambition and I’m sure some of the measures are very sensible, which makes me feel a bit churlish to snipe away [...]
Tags: Crawley Council
Go West
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Forget the North-South divide: down here in Sussex we are suffering from an East-West divide. According to the Politics Show every council in East Sussex has signed up for the government’s free swimming for the over 60s scheme. The programme is contrasting that with Kent, where 8 out of 13 councils have opted out, with [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Horsham
Airportman
September 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
BAA’s enforced sale of Gatwick is going to make for some interesting and uncertain times in the area. The BBC were carrying a story today about Horsham-based NOGAR campaigning to fight an additional runway, and I’m sure that GACC will be in the news before long. I don’t really have the attention span to say [...]
Tags: Aviation·Crawley Council
Travelling Without Moving
August 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Politics
The local papers have recently been providing a sort of running commentary on the ever-changing location of a group of travellers in Crawley. Or maybe there are a couple of groups: its hard to tell. All I know is that there have been caravans parked somewhere for the last couple of months. Which all reminds [...]
Levelling The Land
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
I have been told that the National Policy Forum has finally accepted what members of the party have been saying for ages and have decided to allow the so-called ‘level playing field’ for social housing. In other words, local councils can now apply for Housing Corporation grants under the same terms as housing associations.
I can’t [...]
Tags: Crawley Council·Horsham·Housing
Section 106
June 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Politics
Last week the Crawley News included the regular insert from the council: Crawley Live. Normally this is noncontentious to the point of dullness, but one article this time really wound me up: the one on page 7 about Section 106 agreements. It lists all the various benefits to society resulting from money [...]
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