Published: 13 July 2022
From: Culture
A garden created to celebrate Crawley New Town’s 50th anniversary has been redeveloped to mark its 75th.
The Anniversary Gardens in West Green Park were created in 1997 by Crawley Borough Council to celebrate the golden jubilee of the New Town.
Now, 25 years later the gardens have been given a new lease of life after Crawley Borough Council’s Neighbourhood Services Team created a beautiful wildlife habitat and tranquil place for residents to relax and enjoy the outdoor space.
The hedged garden has been transformed into a wildflower meadow and orchard garden that will become a haven not only for visitors but also to a wide variety of insects, invertebrates, small mammals and birds.
Volunteers from U3A (the University of the Third Age) will help maintain the Anniversary Gardens and they have their own garden patch on the site too.
The redeveloped Anniversary Gardens look beautiful and they provide a wonderful sense of calm so close to Crawley Leisure Park and the town centre.The rede velopment is a lovely way to mark the town’s 75th anniversary and it was a pleasure to meet the gardening volunteers from the U3A as well.
Cllr Chris Mullins
Cabinet member for Wellbeing
Crawley Borough Council
For more information about Crawley’s parks and gardens visit crawley.gov.uk/parks.
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