Crawley Borough Council: Cultural Quarter Feasibility
In-depth feasibility study testing whether Crawley town centre could host a new cultural quarter.
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The question
Could one of four town centre sites become a viable home for culture and creative business, and what would it take?
Crawley Borough Council needed a shared vision, a delivery model and an honest view of each site before committing Towns Fund money.
What we did
Working with HemingwayDesign and Creative Crawley, we consulted local creatives, residents and partners, and reviewed policy, demand and the economic case.
Together we tested four sites against a vision co-designed with the town’s creative community.
What happened next
The study gave the council a clear answer before it committed funding: none of the four sites could work yet, because of land ownership and water neutrality constraints. Culture is now written into the council’s wider feasibility work for the east of the town centre.
Creative Crawley has opened a makerspace and a County Mall gallery space based on the study’s “grow it and they will come” approach.
Explore your next move.
Book a free discovery call with our CEO, Richard Freeman – or send us a brief and we’ll give you an honest appraisal of the best way to get from A to B.