Crawley Eastern Gateway

Crawley's Eastern Gateway is a project within the £60 million pound Crawley Growth Programme which aims to:

• Upgrade the business and living environment in the town centre and Manor Royal
• Secure £750 million further investment
• Improve sustainable transport infrastructure in the town centre, Manor Royal and at three railway stations
• Unlock private funds for new Crawley railway station
• Unlock over one million square feet of much needed new Grade A commercial space
• Enable delivery of 1,000+ new town centre homes
• Deliver 7,000 extra jobs.

The growth programme has been working towards these aims for the previous five years. In the next year, the growth programme will undergo a review to re-evaluate its key priorities ensuring the programme still best serves Crawley.

Eastern Gateway was a £9 million project and one component of the Growth Programme. The scheme was completed in August 2022 and Councillors and partners joined on site to celebrate its completion. The project has improved connectivity between the town and key development sites by supporting the delivery of residential and commercial development and improving the public realm and living environment in Crawley Town Centre.

From left to right: Colin Bexley (Project Manager with principal contractor VolkerFitzpatrick), Duncan Crow (County Council Cabinet Member for Community Support, Fire and Rescue), Marie Ovenden (County Council Growth Programme Delivery Manager), Councillor Atif Nawaz (Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development at Crawley Borough Council), and Ayad Hassan (Project Manager for consultants WSP).

For the full press release, please click the link (opens in a new tab).

As shown in the video below, Eastern Gateway enhances sustainable travel to and within Crawley Town Centre by improving pedestrian and cycling facilities, improving urban realm and supporting key development opportunities including County Buildings and Crawley College. Included in the project is the provision of 1.8 metre-wide stepped cycle tracks, the decluttering of highway, incorporating soft-landscaping proposals, and the maintenance of traffic flows.

Recent Press Releases:

For recent press releases, please click on the links below (opens in new window):

Construction starts in £8.85million project to help Crawley’s economic growth

Milestone moment in multi-million-pound schemes to support Crawley’s economic growth

Celebration time: £9million Crawley town centre regeneration scheme successfully completed

Alternate formats

If you require any of the information for this project in an alternative format, please contact us on 01243 777100 or email us at EasternGatewayWorks@westsussex.gov.uk. If you are deaf or hard of hearing and have an NGT texting app installed on your computer, laptop or smartphone, you can contact us on 18001 01243 777100.