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Crawley
Crawley () is a town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 118,493 at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census. Southern parts of the borough lie immediately next to the High Weald National Landscape. The area has been inhabited since Three-age system, the Stone Age, and was a Wealden iron industry, centre of ironworking in the Iron Age and Roman Britain, Roman times. The area was probably used by the kings of Sussex for hunting.'The Kent and Sussex Weald, Peter Brandon, published by Phillimore and Company, 2003 Initially a clearing in the vast forest of the Weald, Crawley began as a settlement on the boundary of two of the sub-regions particular to Sussex, known as rape (county subdivision), Rapes, the Rape of Bramber and the Rape of Lewes. Becoming a market town in 1202, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawley Borough Council Elections
One third of Crawley Borough Council in West Sussex, England is elected each year, followed by one year without election. Since the last boundary changes in 2019, 36 councillors have been elected from 13 wards. Political control From the first elections to the council in 1973 following the reforms of the Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov ..., political control of the council has been held by the following parties: Leadership The leaders of the council since 1973 have been: Council elections Summary of the council composition after recent council elections, click on the year for full details of each election. Boundary changes took place for the 2004 election increasing the number of seats by 5, leading to the whole council being elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawley Borough Council
Crawley Borough Council is the local authority for Crawley in West Sussex, England. It consists of 36 councillors and is currently controlled by the Labour Party, led by Michael Jones. The administrative headquarters are at Crawley Town Hall. History Prior to 1956 Crawley had been governed as a rural parish within the Horsham Rural District. The parish was significantly enlarged in 1933 when the neighbouring parish of Ifield was abolished. Following the designation of Crawley as a new town in 1947, the parish was further enlarged in 1953 to take in the Three Bridges area from the neighbouring parish of Worth. The parish of Crawley was made an urban district in 1956. The urban district was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, gaining the parts of the parishes of Slaugham and Worth within the designated area for the new town, plus Gatwick Airport and adjoining areas from the Surrey parishes of Charlwood and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawley Town Hall
Crawley Town Hall is a municipal structure in The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex, England. It was completed in 2023 and serves as the headquarters of Crawley Borough Council. History Following significant population growth associated with the development of the new town, Crawley became an urban district in 1956. The new council leaders decided to commission a town hall and acquired a site on the north side of The Boulevard from Crawley Development Corporation in May 1958. The building was designed by Max Clendinning of Brown Henson & Partners in the Brutalist style, built in concrete and glass and was officially opened by the Secretary of State for Education and Science, Michael Stewart on 14 November 1964. The design of the old town hall involved a six-storey block which was canted forward over the main entrance and also extended to the rear behind the front elevation. It was attached to the east, via a long low-rise connecting block, to an auditorium known as the "Civi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RH Postcode Area
The RH postcode area, also known as the Redhill postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of twenty postcode districts in South East England, within seventeen post towns. These cover east Surrey (including Redhill, Reigate, Betchworth, Dorking, Lingfield, Horley, Oxted and Godstone) and northeastern West Sussex (including Crawley, Gatwick, Haywards Heath, Billingshurst, East Grinstead, Burgess Hill, Horsham and Pulborough) plus small parts of northwestern East Sussex (including Forest Row). The main sorting office is in Crawley (Gatwick Mail Centre), and the area served includes parts of the Surrey districts of Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge, and a small part of the borough of Guildford, as well as most of the West Sussex districts of Crawley, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and a small part of Chichester district, and small parts of the East Sussex districts of Lewes and Wealden. __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Sussex
West Sussex is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Surrey to the north, East Sussex to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Hampshire to the west. The largest settlement is Crawley, and the county town is the city of Chichester. The county has a land area of and a population of . Along the south coast is a near-continuous urban area which includes the towns of Bognor Regis (63,855), Littlehampton (55,706), and Worthing (111,338); the latter two are part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area, which extends into East Sussex and has a total population of 474,485. The interior of the county is generally rural; the largest towns are Crawley (118,493) and Horsham (50,934), both located in the north-east; Chichester is in the south-west and has a population of 26,795. West Sussex contains seven local government Non-metropolitan district, districts, which are part of a two-tier non-metropolitan county administered by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lamb (politician)
Peter Keir Lamb (born 1986) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Crawley since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Leader of Crawley Council from 2014 to 2022. Early life and education Peter Keir Lamb was born in 1986 in Crawley, West Sussex. His mother was a social worker and his father was a scientist. Lamb studied at Southampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History and Politics in 2007 and a Master of Science in Citizenship and Governance in 2008. Political career Lamb was born in Crawley and was a councillor for 14 years before becoming the area's MP. He is the third consecutive MP for the constituency to lose at the previous general election and then win it at the next. According to PR Week, Lamb was a "senior consultant for The Campaign Company, which specialises in insight and engagement and works for clients including local authorities, central government departments, the NHS, charities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sussex
Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, county. It includes the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. The area borders the English Channel to the south, and the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial counties of Surrey to the north, Kent to the north-east, and Hampshire to the west. Sussex contains the city of Brighton and Hove and its wider Greater Brighton City Region, city region, as well as the South Downs National Park and the National Landscapes of the High Weald National Landscape, High Weald and Chichester Harbour. Its coastline is long. The Kingdom of Sussex emerged in the fifth century in the area that had previously been inhabited by the Regni tribe in the Roman Britain, Romano-British period. In about 827, shortly a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England, regions of England that are in the ITL 1 statistical regions of England, top level category for Statistics, statistical purposes. It consists of the nine counties of england, counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex. South East England is the third-largest region of England, with a land area of , and is also the most populous with a total population of in . South East England contains eight legally city status in the United Kingdom, chartered cities: Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Chichester, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester. Officially it does not include London, which is a separate region. The geographical term for "South East England" may differ from the official definition of the region, for example London, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex are sometimes referred to as being in the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking. The county has an area of and a population of 1,214,540. Much of the north of the county forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area, which includes the Suburb, suburbs within the M25 motorway as well as Woking (103,900), Guildford (77,057), and Leatherhead (32,522). The west of the county contains part of Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, built-up area which includes Camberley, Farnham, and Frimley and which extends into Hampshire and Berkshire. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley (22,693) and Godalming (22,689). For Local government in England, local government purposes Surrey is a non-metropolitan county with eleven districts. The county historically includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of MPs Elected In The 2015 United Kingdom General Election
The 2015 general election took place on 7 May 2015 and saw each of Parliament's 650 constituencies return one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons. Parliament, which consists of the House of Lords and the elected House of Commons, was convened on 27 May at the Palace of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth II. It was dissolved just after midnight on 3 May 2017, being 25 working days ahead of the general election on 8 June 2017. The dissolution was originally scheduled for 2020, but took place almost three years early following a call for a snap election by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May which received the necessary two-thirds majority in a 522 to 13 vote in the House of Commons on 19 April 2017. It was the shortest Parliament since 1974. The 2015 general election resulted in a Conservative majority, a massive loss of seats for the Liberal Democrats, and all but three Scottish seats going to the SNP. The UK Independence Party elected their first MP at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Status In England And Wales
Borough status is granted by royal charter to local government districts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The status is purely honorary, and does not give any additional powers to the council or inhabitants of the district. In Scotland, similarly chartered communities were known as royal burghs, although the status is no longer granted. Origins of borough status Until the local government reforms of 1973 and 1974, boroughs were towns possessing charters of incorporation conferring considerable powers, and were governed by a municipal corporation headed by a mayor. The corporations had been reformed by legislation beginning in 1835 (1840 in Ireland). By the time of their abolition there were three types: * County boroughs *Municipal or non-county boroughs * Rural boroughs Many of the older boroughs could trace their origin to medieval charters or were boroughs by prescription, with Saxon origins. Most of the boroughs created after 1835 were new industrial, resort or subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of English Districts By Population
This is a list of the districts of England ordered by population, according to estimated figures for from the Office for National Statistics. The list consists of 164 non-metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 62 unitary authorities, and two ''sui generis'' authorities (the City of London and the Isles of Scilly). {{#invoke: AutosortTable , create , class = wikitable plainrowheaders sortable sticky-header-multi , separator = -- , order = 1 , numeric = 1 , caption= English districts by population ({{English statistics year) , rowheader = 1 , header = -- Rank -- District -- Population -- Type -- Ceremonial county -- Region , -- {{cardinal, {{English district rank, GSS=E07000223 -- Adur -- {{English district population, GSS=E07000223 -- Non-metropolitan district -- West Sussex -- South East , -- {{cardinal, {{English district rank, GSS=E07000032 -- Amber Valley -- {{English district population, GSS=E07000032 -- Non-metropolitan d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
