Green businesses
Crawley recreates town centre
around Morrisons and bronze
clad car park
A stunning new Morrisons supermarket atop a two storey car
park with bronze coloured cladding is the centrepiece of a major
redevelopment of Crawley town centre.
T
he 75,000 sq ft
superstore, 110 bed
Travelodge hotel,
500 space car park
and four restaurants
made up phase
one of Crawley Borough
Council's Town Centre North
masterplan on the former
Sussex House site at the
northern end of the High
Street.
The scheme designed by
architects Lyons Sleeman
Hoare was being developed
by Land Securities and St
James’s Investments, with
McLaren Construction and
Warefence appointed to
install the car park steel
mesh and cladding supplied
46 Landscape & Urban Design
by perimeter fencing
manufacturer Zaun.
Zaun supplied Duo6 panels
and posts, a fencing system
based on a twin wire design,
consisting of two horizontal
6mm wires resistance
welded on either side of
5mm vertical wires.
The result was a rigid
perimeter fence that offered
a high degree of vandal
resistance and an extremely
high level of through
visibility.
The mesh also offered the
versatility of integrating into
a 'green screen'.
The major upgrade of
the town centre included
£750,000 of improvements
to the public highway
with pedestrianised areas,
improved street lighting and
new LED traffic signals at the
junction of Pegler Way and
The Boulevard.
A further £3.2m of
improvement work to
Queens Square, the heart
of the town centre, will be
complete in early 2017. An
additional £18m of capital
has also been secured
from the Local Enterprise
Partnership for transport and
infrastructure improvements.