Colaboration with local authorities

🏛️ Business & Borough - Shaping Crawley’s Future Together

Aligning Enterprise with Policy for a Stronger, Fairer Crawley

At the Crawley Business Association (CBA), we believe business doesn’t just happen in a place - it helps shape that place. That’s why we work in active collaboration with local government, ensuring that Crawley’s business community has a powerful voice in civic planning, urban development, and public policy.

Together with Crawley Council, West Sussex County Council (WSCC), and key borough institutions, we align business-led initiatives with public priorities - driving growth that is sustainable, inclusive, and community-focused.

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🤝 Our Government Collaboration Principles

CBA acts as a strategic partner to local authorities by:

📌 Representing Business in Public Dialogue

• Providing feedback on council proposals, town centre regeneration plans, and infrastructure upgrades

• Hosting joint roundtables and listening forums to gather real-time business insights

• Submitting business perspectives on transport, zoning, licensing, sustainability, and employment policy

🏗️ Aligning with Urban Development Goals

• Supporting Crawley’s Growth Plan and Opportunity Area strategies

• Contributing to spatial planning, high street regeneration, and mixed-use redevelopment

• Ensuring that small and minority-owned businesses are represented in long-term urban strategies

🧭 Advocating for Business-Friendly Policy

• Lobbying for reduced red tape, flexible licensing, and SME access to council contracts

• Promoting local procurement policies that prioritise Crawley-based suppliers

• Working with the council to create pathways from education to employment, especially in tech, green, and creative sectors

🫱🏽‍🫲🏾 Supporting Community Welfare

• Co-developing initiatives that intersect with health, education, housing, and social services

• Ensuring business participation in public health campaigns, skills training, and neighbourhood improvement schemes

• Bridging business support with charitable and civic action, in alignment with Crawley’s inclusive growth agenda

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🌍 A Shared Vision for Crawley

Our partnership with local government is rooted in a shared vision:

A Crawley that is thriving, equitable, resilient, and ready for the future.

From the Manor Royal transformation, to the East Crawley spatial framework, to community wealth building pilots, we work side-by-side with public bodies to co-create a borough where:

• Business drives opportunity

• Policy fuels innovation

• Community and commerce grow together

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🧩 Recent Highlights

✔️ Business Consultation: Crawley Area Remodelling
✔️ Co-hosted Economic Development Summit with Crawley Borough Council
✔️ Contributed to Crawley’s Local Plan Review
✔️ Supporting roll-out of Community Business Grants in collaboration with regeneration team

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📣 Be Part of the Conversation

As a CBA member, your voice helps shape:

• Local regulations and business policy

• Investment priorities

• Public-private partnership initiatives

• Strategic collaborations with education, arts, and transport bodies

“When business and government co-design the future, the whole community wins.”
— Crawley Business Association

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📬 Get Involved

🔗 [Join the CBA and Amplify Your Voice]
🔗 [Submit Feedback on Local Planning]
🔗 [Partner with Our Civic Engagement Team]