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Architecture of Crawley New Town
As the New Year begins, there is one date on the immediate horizon which is of particular resonance for our town. We are approaching the 75th anniversary of the official designation of Crawley as a post-war New Town on 9th January 1947. Crawley's history, of course, goes back far beyond this date, indeed as far back as the Stone (Neolithic) Age.
Architecture of Crawley New Town
The Crawley new town licensed premises committee was set up in 1953 to advise the minister of housing and local government about the number, disposition, and type of new public houses at Crawley. Four public houses had been finished by 1957, and by 1961 the development corporation had provided one public house in each new neighbourhood..
Architecture of Crawley New Town
Crawley was designated as a new town on January 9 1947, merging the villages of Three Bridges and Ifield with the small market town of Crawley filling in the gaps. The planners envisaged.
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Footnotes GROWTH OF THE NEW TOWN. The master plan provided for 4,000 a. of the designated 5,920 a.; the rest was to be kept in reserve and as green belt land. (fn. 1) Much of the land was already covered by Crawley town, Ifield village, and outlying settlements.
Architecture of Crawley New Town
10 March 2020 Crawley East - RH10, Crawley West - RH11 The Birth Of Crawley New Town For more than 70 years thousands have called Crawley home, and although there has been a community living in the area since the Stone Age, it is following the end of the Second World War that it has grown.
Architecture of Crawley New Town
Crawley Development Corporation was set up in February 1947 by the Government of the United Kingdom to establish, administer and control the development of the New Town of Crawley in accordance with the New Towns Act 1946.
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Footnotes CRAWLEY NEW TOWN CRAWLEY (fn. 1) was one of the six original new towns designated under the New Towns Act, 1946, as part of the planning of the London region after the Second World War.
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Crawley New Town 1947-2000, A Historical Atlas of Sussex (Phillimore, 1999) The Story of the New Towns, Eunice Clement (Crawley Museum Society, 2008) Please note that the lists below are largely based on Crawley Development Corporation annual reports for 1956-1958, Goad plans for 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1986, 1998, 2006 and 2012 and later.
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Northgate Three Bridges Langley Green Pound Hill Ifield (originally intended to be called Ifield Green) Southgate Tilgate Gossops Green The Final Expansion By the 1960s, the New Town had become securely established, and was flourishing. Low unemployment meant a low surplus population, and hence a decrease in the power of capital over labour.
Crawley New Town Growth of the new town British History Online
Crawley West Sussex 'Mark One' New Town - Designated 9 January 1947 The second of the New Towns and designed to accommodate London's overspill, Crawley New Town included within its designated area the existing market town of Crawley, the villages of Three Bridges and Ifield and a few surrounding hamlets.
Architecture of Crawley New Town
This paper examines the occupational class structures of New Towns, in particular Crawley New Town, in the light of such policies. A considerable degree of class balance has been achieved in the town as a whole but neighbourhoods have begun to take on distinctive class characteristics. However, the evidence as a whole does not justify the.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) is a town and West Sussex. It is 28 miles (45 km) south of , 18 miles (29 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 32 miles (51 km) north-east of the county town of . Crawley covers an area of 17.36 square miles (44.96 km) and had a population of 106,597 at the time of the 2011 Census
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Latest news Crawley bidding to be the first New Town to become a city Published: 21 October 2021 From: Business and economy Crawley will apply for city status - on the 75th anniversary of.
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Crawley is a town of 119,000 people (2021) in West Sussex, on the border with Surrey, in the South East of England. The biggest influence on the town is Gatwick Airport, which lays claim to being the 6th-busiest airport in the world. Understand [ edit] Crawley was a small town until 1947 when it was designated a New Town.
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Take a look back at Crawley's 70 year history
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1. Tilgate Park Source: Pedro Cruz / shutterstock Tilgate Park On Crawley's southern border, Tilgate Park is a former country estate across more than 2,000 acres of sumptuous countryside in the High Weald. It's a joy to navigate the park on foot, on trails through fragrant pine forest and next to the expansive Tilgate Lake.
