Residents Meeting

The next Forge Wood Community Forum residents meeting is on Tuesday 9 July, 7pm at Forge Wood Primary.

All resident welcome.  Please come along for updates on various issues and to get more involved in local community projects and events.

For further details email or see facebook

Residents set about cleaning up their new community

On Sunday 23^rd June residents living in the new neighbourhood of Forge Wood got together to set about cleaning up their development. The event was organised by Forge Wood Community Forum, an active resident’s association formed on the development.

Forge Wood benefits from a lot of open space and woodland but the woodland linking the development to Gratton’s Park had suffered from many years of neglect and antisocial behaviour, predating the establishment of the community. Nadine McCreadie from Forge Wood Community Forum said “all the rubbish left many residents feeling unsafe walking through the woodland, which is regularly used by children to get to Milton Mount Primary School and Hazelwick School, so this seemed an ideal first event for the community forum to tackle.

We are so fortunate to live on a development that benefits from great woodland which is rich in wildlife and now following our clean-up we can properly start to enjoy it.”

A surprising variety of items were removed including a bike, microwave, shopping trolley and shoes. It was great to see the pile of rubbish we had cleared at the end of the morning.

The event was supported by Crawley Borough Council and attended by Cllr Tina Belben, Councillor for Pound Hill North and Forge Wood.

Forge Wood Community Forum is looking forward to organising more events in the future.