1. Increased number of litter pickers, doubling the frequency of street cleansing
2. Joint working arrangement with the other seven West Sussex councils to improve service delivery
3. Lowest Council Tax increase in all of Sussex seven years in a row
4. £8 m efficiency savings
5. K2 attendance figures
6. Supporting a much-needed new library
7. Highest leisure satisfaction ratings of any council – 83%
8. Fast Way carrying 4m passengers p.a.
9. Adopting a Heritage Policy
10. Successful Lottery bid to restore Worth Park Gardens
11. Expanding the Community Wardens Service by one third to increase the number of active patrols
12. Combining the Community Wardens and Civil Parking Enforcement teams to improve the coverage of both functions.
13. Applying the maximum permissible litter fines
14. Proposing a major general hospital west of Crawley
15. Introducing the State of the Borough Debate
16. Introducing the Business Debate
17. Requiring that all new developments of more than 15 units contain 40% affordable homes
18. New Council logo
19. Established Facebook and Twitter presence
20. Accelerated neighbourhood centre improvement programme by two years
21. Kept faith with the Bewbush and Langley Green neighbourhood centre regeneration schemes
22. Improved the jet washing of town centre and neighbourhood parades
23. Project to desilt Ifield Mill Pond
24. Eliminated one stage of the staff appeals procedure
25. Revised scheme of delegation improving the efficiency of decision making
26. Streamlined Full Council, faster Cabinets
27. Reduced number of committees and working groups
28. EMAS re-accreditations
29. Winners of South East in Bloom and Britain in Bloom and the Champion of Champions award
30. Scores on the doors
31. Redesigned Crawley Live
32. Completed the Decent Homes programme
33. Balanced budget in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2012/13 onwards
34. Green waste collection service
35. Glass recycling in red top bins
36. Support for Crawley Times
37. Increased resources for tree maintenance deliver major improvements.
38. Faster processing and increased funding for disabled facility grants
39. Major reductions in electricity and gas usage
40. Major reductions in business car mileage
41. No traveller incursions for extended periods
42. Exploring options for a university presence and part-achieved within Central Sussex College
43. Anticipative flood prevention
44. Launch of the Venture Service
45. Launch of Crawley Faith, Belief and Culture Guide
46. Member Link programme
47. Green Space Strategy
48. Increased delivery and funding of Residential Environmental Improvement Schemes
49. Opened the popular Crawley Skate Park in September 2007
50. Abolished the lease car scheme for job status beneficiaries
51. Reformed staff pension arrangements
52. Dramatically reduced absence and sickness
53. Improved EJCF (Employees’ Joint Consultative Forum) dialogue and value
54. Brought in Systems Thinking
55. Maidenbower Pavilion project
56. Princess of Wales’s Regiment association
57. Raised opinion of Crawley in Sussex
58. LDF Core Strategy
59. Bio City feasibility study
60. Major improvements on housing responsive repairs
61. 100% gas servicing compliance
62. Grafitti and fly tipping reductions
63. Youth Mayor
64. Reduced Heads of Service from 15 to 8
65. Introduced CPE (Civil Parking Enforcement)
66. Tilgate flood prevention measures
67. Delivery of Kilnwood Vale
68. Delivering Forge Wood
69. Free on-line advertising for neighbourhood centres
70. Gaining the South East Employers Charter for Elected Member Development
71. BMX track in Langley Green
72. Return of boating to Tilgate Lake
73. Increased investment in the Nature Centre with new animals etc.
74. Digital cinema at The Hawth
75. Town Centre North Phase One building out
76. Go Ape tree-top adventure trail at Tilgate
77. Community Covenant with the Armed Forces
78. Living Wage employer
79. Town Centre North Phase One – Travelodge, Morrissons, restaurants, car parking
Future
1. Town Centre North and other development sites
2. Addressing the issue of parking on grass verges
3. Working on selected private sector parades