Crawley BC and Crawley Museum Society Awarded £1.1 Million for New Museum

Crawley Borough Council and Crawley Museum Society, have been awarded over £1million by the Heritage Lottery Fund to provide a new museum in the town centre.

Work on the new museum, which will be located in The Tree and The Tree Annexe with a glass link between the two, is expected to start in April 2015 and take around 18 months to complete.

The project will see The Tree restored, renovated and fitted out as a new museum space. There’ll also be specialist display facilities and equipment in The Tree and The Tree Annexe, and lots of exciting opportunities ahead for volunteers and the public to get involved.

The current museum in Goffs Park House is cramped and only holds about 10 per cent of the society’s artefacts.

Reigate MP Opposes Hard Runway at Redhill Aerodrome

Reigate MP, Crispin Blunt, has lodged his formal opposition to the planning application for a hard runway at Redhill Aerodrome.

In a joint letter with fellow East Surrey MP, Sam Gyimah, Mr  Blunt says that he feels there are no special circumstances to justify the development of the green belt in this area.

Urging the rejection of the hard-surface runway, the letter also states that such a plan would have a detrimental effect on the landscape and would increase noise and light pollution in the area.

The planning appeal will be heard in January 2014

Susy launched on Sunday 15th July at 12 noon, broadcasting to Redhill, Reigate, Horley, Gatwick, North Crawley and the surrounding villages.

Programme Controller, Geoff Rogers says: “We started our full programming schedules on Sunday 15th July and are here to provide a proper local radio service for the community that we are licensed to serve. We promise listeners an excellent line-up of shows from some first-rate presenters.”

Chairman, Neil Munday, comments: “We’ve had some hold-ups along the way and we won’t be just keeping ourselves in the confines of the studio but getting out and meeting the community, just as we did on virtually every day during the recent Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.”

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On the morning of Friday, June 8th, at 10am, Ofcom attended the Susy Radio transmission site on Reigate Hill. Testing and compliance checking was carried out in the presence of our Chief Engineer John Stockley and Susy Radio Chairman Neil Munday.

Over a period of several hours, the transmitter was switched on and off on 103.4FM, all specifications checked and figures recorded from the transmitter and RDS unit. The final result is that Susy Radio’s transmission kit has passed inspection and we are good to begin full test transmissions which we will commence very soon. Watch this space for details.

Neil Munday – Chair