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Major plans to improve the area around Three Bridges Station were approved by Crawley Borough Council’s Planning Committee on Tuesday (7 March). The council, working with Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and West Sussex County Council, will redevelop the station forecourt, create a new entrance to the station…

Crawley Borough Council is supporting the renewal of Manor Royal’s Business Improvement District (BID) for another five years. The Manor Royal business district is a fundamental part of Crawley’s vibrant business and employment base and makes a huge contribution not just to Crawley’s economy, but to West Sussex as…

Crawley Borough Council is supporting more than 1,000 students from five Crawley schools as part of Love Local Jobs’ Dare to Dream programme. Dare to Dream is an inspirational programme created by the LoveLocalJobs Foundation Community Interest Company (CIC), which aims to support the self-awareness, resilience,…

Crawley Borough Council is encouraging local businesses based in Crawley that operate in the green-tech or low-carbon sectors to apply for Green-Tech Business Growth Fund (GBGF) grants, as a result of £1 million of government funding secured from the Towns Fund. Start-up businesses based in Crawley that operate in…

Crawley Borough Council and the Affordable Housing and Healthcare Group (AHH) are working in partnership on a scheme to deliver more than 300 new affordable homes, as part of a £100 milliion town centre regeneration project.  AHH will develop a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom apartments on the site at…

Seven Towns Fund projects worth £12.6 million that will boost Crawley’s economy have been approved by the government. In September 2021, the government gave the Crawley Town Deal Board the go-ahead to fully develop 10 project business cases in detail to receive the money from the Towns Fund between 2021 to 2022 and…

Plans to improve the area around one of Crawley’s busiest transport interchanges have been formalised. A planning application for improvements to the Three Bridges Station forecourt area has been submitted by Crawley Borough Council. The council, working with Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and West…

Agents and stakeholders were welcomed at a breakfast event at Crawley’s latest and only town centre office development, The Create Building in Crawley on 30 November 2022. Tours of the high specification Grade A office space, which offers flexibility of sizes from 7,000 square feet to 77,000 square feet, were…

The new Crawley Innovation Centre has been granted planning permission and will bring a much-needed economic, innovation and technological boost to the town. The exciting plans – a major priority in Crawley’s Economic Recovery Plan 2022 to 2037 – were agreed by the Planning Committee at Crawley Borough Council on 1…

Crawley Borough Council’s successful Small Business Grant Scheme is set to continue with the help of continued funding from a county-wide pot. The council has been awarded a further £71,000 from the county-wide Economic Recovery Fund to continue supporting micro, start-ups and small businesses in Crawley via this…