Siraj Choudhury
Council: Crawley
Committees:
Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
71 meetings · Page 1 of 15
Planning Committee - Tuesday, 14th October, 2025 7.30 pm
19 attendees, 6 documents, 1 media files
Decisions from Meetings
190 decisions · Page 32 of 38
Subject to Contract, to Award a Building Conversion Works Construction Contract for the Crawley Innovation Centre (Travel House)
From: Constitution - Monday, 27th October, 2025 - October 27, 2025
Subject to the outcome of contract negotiations, to award a building conversion works construction contract under the SCAPE framework to a prime contractor for the Crawley Innovation Centre. Delegation to the Leader was given by Cabinet at its meeting on 6th July 2022 (PES 417 refers).
For Determination
Modern Polling Digital Poll Clerk
From: Constitution - Monday, 27th October, 2025 - October 27, 2025
Digitisation within the poll station will aim to alleviate some of the issues facing Crawley Borough Council when managing the Poll. This will generate many additional benefits for Election staff and management, ultimately providing a better experience for the voter. Within Crawley Borough Council our poll stations use a very traditional, manual, paper-based process. This system has served us adequately but with the increasing demands from recent election bills, covid, challenges with staffing and increasing demands on the electoral system, change is imperative. Existing challenges include; staff recruitment, voter disengagement, poor visibility of election day progress, and increased risk of human error, accuracy of Ballot Paper Accounts, transparency with audits. This was compounded by the implementation of Voter ID and the workload and complexity of administering the poll stations will increase dramatically. Please note the digital aspect relates to the paperwork of the poll clerk & presiding officer and not how the public vote which will remain paper based.
Recommendations Approved
Re-allocation of the Community Grants Budget
From: Constitution - Monday, 27th October, 2025 - October 27, 2025
Due to an increased number of applications received to the small grants scheme, it has been agreed to re-allocate £10,000 from the Strategic Grants Budget to the Small Grants Budget allocation. Both the Cabinet Member for Community Engagement and Culture and the Leader have been consulted and are in agreement with the re-allocation.
Recommendations Approved
Shared Procurement Service: Joint Procurement Strategy 2024 - 2030
From: Constitution - Monday, 27th October, 2025 - October 27, 2025
To approve the Strategy for the joint procurement service
Recommendations Approved
Future Acquisitions for Affordable Housing Delivery
From: Constitution - Monday, 27th October, 2025 - October 27, 2025
The report seeks approval to acquire affordable housing opportunities from the market, to be funded from the HRA Acquisitions Budget for Crawley Homes ownership.
Recommmend Forward to Council
Summary
Meetings Attended: 71
Average per Month: 3.2
Decisions Recorded: 190