problems and inconveniences in its first years as the other early neighbourhoods. No pavements were provided; streets lacked lighting and were either dusty or muddy; and potholes were common. There were also design errors at the main shopping parade: the pillar box was erected outside a chemist's shop instead of the post office, and all of the flats above the shops were mistakenly given the same door lock and key. Queen Elizabeth II visited Crawley in June 1958, principally to open Gatwick Airport; but she visited Northgate and toured the Territorial Army centre in Kilnmead among other places. Location within Crawley The designated area of Crawley New Town according to Anthony Minoprio's masterplan was , of which was to be developed at first. Northgate was to cover immediately north of the expanded town centre. Anticlockwise from the south, the neighbourhood is bounded by The Boulevard (forming the northern limit of the town centre), Northgate Avenue (the A2004), Crawley Avenue (the A2011) and London Road, historically the main north–south route through the town but now bypassed and downgraded. When the New Town was planned, each neighbourhood was allocated a colour, which appears on street name signs together with the neighbourhood's name. Northgate's colour is pine green. Governance When Crawley Urban District was formed in May 1956, it was divided into eight wards whose boundaries were identical with those of eight of the extant and planned neighbourhoods. By 1983, nine years after the district became a borough, the town had thirteen wards. This position remained the same until an electoral review in 2002, which created two new wards. Throughout these changes, Northgate's ward boundaries remained the same. As well as the residential part of the neighbourhood, they cover the town centre to the south and the Manor Royal industrial estate to the north. The ward elects two councillors. In 2002 it was stated that the electorate in Northgate was 3,515 people, rising to an expected 3,918 in 2006; this made it one of the smallest wards in the town. Demography The administrative ward of Northgate covers the residential neighbourhood, the town centre and Manor Royal industrial estate. Wards are used for collecting census and other statistical and demographic data. Northgate's population was 5,298 at the time of the 2011 United Kingdom census. The ward covers , giving a population density of , but much of the area covered by the ward is