A report on Crawley and Crawley Development Corporation

Crawley Development Corporation used Broadfield House, a 19th-century villa, as its headquarters
St John the Baptist's Church from the southeast
The public inquiry into Crawley's New Town designation took place at the Montefiore Institute in November 1946; meanwhile, the committee which became the Development Corporation had already been formed.
Crawley signal box in 2008
Smalls Mead in the West Green neighbourhood was the first residential street built by the Development Corporation.
Queen's Square in the central shopping area, looking towards the bandstand, The Body Shop, Marks & Spencer and the former Woolworths store
Most of the Corporation's housing stock consisted of "Group I" houses. Many were terraced or semi-detached, as here at Paddockhurst Road in Gossops Green.
One of the neighbourhood churches: St Mary's in Southgate (now a locally listed building)
Few flats were built by the Development Corporation; the Sunnymead flats in West Green were among the first.
Borough of Crawley shown within West Sussex
The Corporation built many factories to a standard design in the 1950s on the Manor Royal industrial estate.
Crawley Town Hall, on The Boulevard in the town centre
The Development Corporation led the way in establishing the Weir Wood Reservoir, which serves the town's water needs.
Ordnance Survey map of the Crawley area, 1932
The Southgate neighbourhood's parade of shops
Each neighbourhood has colour-coded street name signs (Southgate example pictured).
Neighbourhoods of Crawley, identified in the table
Church Road in Lowfield Heath village, looking east towards St Michael and All Angels Church. No houses remain here; a hotel, depots and light industrial units have replaced the earlier development.
Graph of population growth in Crawley 1901–2001. Horizontal axis: year. Vertical axis: population.
Former Virgin Atlantic head office.
Schlumberger House, the head office of WesternGeco at Gatwick Airport
34 and 36 High Street - Grade II late 18th-century brick building with sash windows, two chimneys and a tiled roof.
The Friary Way entrance to County Mall
Crawley police station
Crawley library, opened in December 2008
Crawley station, with five storeys of offices above the ticket office and concourse area
A Metrobus double-decker bus at Crawley bus station
Gatwick is the world's second busiest single-runway international airport.
Entrance to the K2 Leisure Centre
Pond at Goff's Park Crawley, January 2009
The Memorial Gardens
The Grade II listed Worth Training Centre, Turners Hill Road, Pound Hill, Crawley
1902 Autocar in the 2018 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, High Street, Crawley.
The main building of Central Sussex College
Broadfield House, which now houses the Atelier 21 Future School
Erin Doherty
Ms. Dynamite
Romesh Ranganathan
Gareth Southgate
Daley Thompson
Alan Minter
Leadley
Laura Moffatt
Robert Smith

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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Architect Thomas Bennett was appointed chairman of Crawley Development Corporation.

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Goffs Park

Southgate, West Sussex

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Goffs Park
The Half Moon Pub
Victorian houses in Malthouse Road
The Imperial Cinema
Looking east along Southgate Drive
St Mary's Church
Southgate street sign
The Crawley Borough area, showing the 13 neighbourhoods; Southgate is shown in brown
Arora International Hotel
The hotel occupies the site of Longley and Company's factory and yard, seen here in 1983.
Meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
St Wilfrid's Catholic School
Goffs Manor—a Grade II listed building
Goffs Park House—a locally listed building

Southgate is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Apart from these residential buildings, farms and their associated land, there was little else in the area now known as Southgate until Crawley Development Corporation started building the neighbourhood in the 1950s.

Looking northeast along Smalls Mead, the first residential development of the New town

West Green, West Sussex

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Looking northeast along Smalls Mead, the first residential development of the New town
The Crawley Borough area, showing the 13 neighbourhoods; West Green is shown in dark blue
Crawley Hospital
Crawley Baptist Church
The George Hotel
34–36 High Street
44–48 High Street

West Green is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Crawley Development Corporation was formed, led by the architect Thomas Bennett, and planner Anthony Minoprio provided a master plan for the town's development.

Saville Theatre, London

Thomas Bennett (architect)

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Saville Theatre, London
Odeon Marble Arch (opened 1967)

Sir Thomas Penberthy Bennett KBE FRIBA (14 August 1887 – 29 January 1980) was an English architect, responsible for much of the development of the new towns of Crawley and Stevenage.

In 1947, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Development Corporation of Crawley New Town, in West Sussex, a post he held until 1960.

Early 1950s terraced housing on Woodfield Road, with extensive green space in front

Northgate, West Sussex

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Early 1950s terraced housing on Woodfield Road, with extensive green space in front
Northgate street sign
The Crawley Borough area, showing the 13 neighbourhoods; Northgate (including the town centre and Manor Royal industrial estate) is shown in pine green

Northgate is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Crawley Development Corporation was formed, led by the architect Thomas Bennett, and planner Anthony Minoprio provided a master plan for the town's development.

Tilgate

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Tilgate is one of 14 neighbourhoods within the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England.

It was named after Sir Thomas Bennett, chairman of Crawley Development Corporation.

Fairacres, Roehampton

Anthony Minoprio

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British architect and town planner.

British architect and town planner.

Fairacres, Roehampton

Later he worked more as a town planner, particularly the New Town of Crawley.

Three years later, Crawley Development Corporation appointed him as consultant planner in place of Thomas Wilfred Sharp after the latter's sudden decision to resign soon after submitting his master plan—"an extraordinary decision [... which was] never completely explained".

The Green Wing with the Urgent Treatment Centre entrance on West Green Drive

Crawley Hospital

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The Green Wing with the Urgent Treatment Centre entrance on West Green Drive

Crawley Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Both Crawley Urban District Council (the forerunner of the present Borough Council) and Crawley Development Corporation (the body responsible for planning and developing the New town) supported this proposal, but the regional health authority preferred building a new hospital on the existing site.

The house from the south

Broadfield House, Crawley

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The house from the south

Broadfield House is a 19th-century villa-style house in the Broadfield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Broadfield House was chosen as the headquarters of the Crawley Development Corporation, and became the base where all the decisions that shaped Crawley's future were made.