Work preparing for a new access road into Crawley’s Tilgate Park is set to start next week.

Plans to create new visitor access from the K2 Crawley junction into Tilgate Park (off the A23), were agreed recently and work to fell trees will start on Monday.

172 trees will need to be felled to make space for works but at least the same number of trees will be planted in the park when work is completed next year.

The improvements will see the existing emergency access road widened to allow two-way traffic flow and 30 new spaces added to the main car park.