Buy local this Christmas – and ‘keep it in Crawley’

Crawley Borough Council is urging people to buy local this Christmas to ‘keep it in Crawley’ – and has a parking offer to help.

Spending money in Crawley instead of online or out of town helps the local economy and keeps the town centre and neighbourhood parades vibrant.

Keeping it local also helps to create and retain jobs, pumps money back into the Crawley economy and reduces the amount of air pollution and traffic congestion.

To encourage people into the town centre to listen to Christmas carols on the Bandstand and do their Christmas and January sales shopping, the council has changed the daily flat rate in Kingsgate multi-storey car park to just £2.50 until 27 January.

The recently upgraded car park, opposite Crawley College and Memorial Gardens, is just a few steps from the shops, offers safe and secure parking with 24-hour access, CCTV and improved lighting as well as 24 disabled bays, parent/carer and child bays and lift access.

Small Business Saturday takes place on 3 December. Crawley has hundreds of independent and small businesses across the town centre and neighbourhood parades.

The council supports local businesses and has created an online tool to search what Crawley’s many neighbourhood parades have to offer.

A huge variety of produce and services can be found sometimes a few steps from your front door, or at most a short car, bus or bike journey – and if you’re travelling by car, you’ll always be able to park just a stone’s throw away from the neighbourhood shops.

Visit our shopping page for the neighbourhood shop finder.

For information about Kingsgate and other town centre car parks visit our parking pages.