Editing Gossops Green (section)

===1946 and After===
Crawley Development Corporation was formed in 1947 as a result of the [[New Towns Act 1946]]. At this time, Crawley had a population of 6,000 people. It was a declared objective that the New Town would be home to 50,000 people by 1961. It had achieved this by 1958 before Gossops Green was built.

According to ''A History of the County of Sussex'' (1987, Hudson ''et al.'', [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18415&strquery=gossops%20green online]), the new neighbourhood of Gossops Green was ninth and last of the original New Town communities laid out during 1956-7 and built between 1958 and 1961. Later developments include The Holy Trinity School (1967), Hillmead and Parkhurst Close (formerly The Craigans) and private housing between The Holy Trinity School and Buckswood Drive (1970-80s).

The old road into Ifield was reconstructed as an extension to Ifield Drive leading into another new neighbourhood of Ifield over a manually operated railway crossing similar to that still found down the line at [[Littlehaven railway station]]. The road name was changed to Craigans (after the adjacent, demolished house of the same name) after the construction of a road bridge over the railway at Overdene Drive, following which the railway crossing was closed.