STEM in the Park is returning to the Memorial Gardens on Saturday 20 May for more free fun. This popular event will showcase a festival of STEM-related activities for young people and their families to enjoy. Just turn up for this free event and participate in numerous entertaining and engaging STEM (science,…

Get down to Tilgate Park this Easter for free family fun in our Easter trail. Follow the trail to visit our eight participating park partners and find the answers to the trail questions.  Send your answers to tilgate@crawley.gov.uk by 17 April for the chance to win a family entry ticket to Tilgate Nature…

Mayo Wynne Baxter has won the Professional Services Firm of the Year category, sponsored by Crawley Borough Council, at the 15th Gatwick Diamond Business Awards last night (Thursday 23 March). The specialist law firm has a number of offices in the south east including Crawley and was selected as winners by Gatwick…

Major improvements to tennis courts in Maidenbower, Southgate and West Green are almost complete and residents can now sign up for cut-price memberships. The nine courts – four in West Green Park, three in Maidenbower Park and two in Southgate Park – have been refurbished with new surfaces, nets, posts and fencing…

Crawley Borough Council has successfully bid for £6.8m from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund to improve the energy efficiency of council homes. The money will help pay for 408 of the least energy efficient homes in Crawley to have loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, external wall insulation and…

The new Town Hall has been officially opened by councillors past and present. Members from the past 30 years gathered at the new Town Hall, on The Boulevard, on Tuesday (21 March) for a small ceremony. Mayor of Crawley, Councillor Jilly Hart, cut a ribbon to officially open the building, which provides civic and…

Phase one of Crawley’s first District Heat Network (DHN) has been completed. The DHN, which is owned by Crawley Borough Council and operated by Pinnacle Power, comprises a flue, energy centre with combined heat and power (CHP) plant and a control room on the Town Hall redevelopment site. It supplies heat and hot…

Eighteen not-for-profit organisations have been awarded new grants totalling more than £250,000 from Crawley Borough Council. A range of community grants have been awarded for new and existing activity that will benefit Crawley residents and visitors. These grants include £67,919 for Crawley Open House Resource…

An art exhibition and immersive theatre performance will be the first events of the town centre Cultural Quarter pop-up programme. The programme will support local artists and aims to increase footfall, test out and unlock new spaces including vacant and underused locations and deliver activities for a vibrant town…

Crawley Borough Council has changed its Tenancy Policy to provide more long-term security to tenants. The council’s Cabinet agreed to phase out flexible tenancies at its meeting on Wednesday (8 March). Flexible tenancies are secure tenancies offered for a fixed term. Since April 2013 the council has offered five…