Ten businesses have been awarded a total of £32,380 funding from Crawley Borough Council’s Small Business Grant Scheme. The funding comes from a county-wide pot and is separate from funding sent out in response to the pandemic.  The council’s successful small business grant scheme was created to help start…

District Heat Network celebrates halfway milestone Construction of the new District Heat Network (DHN) energy centre has now passed the halfway milestone with good progress made during the pandemic.  Once completed, the DHN will supply affordable heat and hot water for connected residents and businesses at…

Crawley Borough Council has reached a major milestone in plans to bring cheaper, greener energy to the town centre. Construction has begun on the new energy centre and is due for completion in February 2022. This forms phase one of the project and will consist of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which…

Crawley Borough Council is supporting Love Local Jobs’ Dare to Dream programme, helping hundreds of students from five schools. Dare to Dream is an inspirational programme created by the LoveLocalJobs Foundation, a community interest company (CIC), which aims to support the self-awareness, resilience, employability…

Councillor Raj Sharma, former Mayor of Crawley and Governor at Manor Green College, sadly passed away in January. He had been an ardent fundraiser and supporter of Manor Green for many years and the college was his chosen charity while he was Mayor of Crawley in 2019/20. Following his death, Raj’s family very…

Crawley Borough Council has extended the provision of free parking for NHS workers, social care staff and volunteers until 21 September 2021 at Orchard Street multi-storey car park. The national scheme ended on 21 June 2021 so the costs of the extension will be covered by the council. The council has taken this…

As part of the Crawley Growth Programme, Crawley Borough Council is undertaking a public engagement exercise on a planned transport improvement scheme along the western end of The Boulevard. The scheme is intended to deliver better transport facilities and connectivity improvements, completing the link from The…

Crawley Borough Council, in partnership with other local authorities in West Sussex, is asking private landlords and lettings organisations how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their tenants. The end of furlough and increase in unemployment has placed many people in private housing under financial pressure…

The wetter and cooler month of May followed by recent settled weather has seen very fast grass growth across the town. Residents may see longer grass for a few weeks until the growth slows down again, usually in July. The good news is that longer grass means we should see bumper crops of buttercups and…

Crawley Borough Council is consulting on how it runs its 11 neighbourhood parades. The current approach was agreed in 2004 following an Overview and Scrutiny Commission recommendation that the council adopt a more commercial attitude to the parades. This approach is now being reconsidered by the Council-owned…