THOUSANDS of visitors have had to be turned away from the county’s busy waste sites since they reopened on May 18, leading to calls for residents to consider if their visit is necessary.
Following a change in Government guidance, East Sussex County Council reopened its 10 Household Waste Recycling Sites, but urged people to only visit if they had potentially dangerous waste that couldn’t be stored or be disposed of in their kerbside collection. Continue reading
PREPARATIONS for parking enforcement in Rother to be transferred to the county council has begun after formal approval from Government.
Work to start installing new parking lines and posts in streets identified during a public consultation last year began this week, with signs and parking machines to be put in place later this summer. Continue reading
DOG walkers returning to the county’s countryside are being urged to keep their pets under control after sheep were attacked in two separate incidents.
Since lockdown restrictions eased and travel for exercise became permitted, large numbers of people are heading to countryside sites across East Sussex. Continue reading
VULNERABLE and disadvantaged young people in East Sussex have been given a boost to their learning with the arrival of a shipment of over 1,000 free laptops.
East Sussex County Council was the first authority in the country to place an order under a Department for Education (DfE) scheme aimed at ensuring pupils can continue learning at home during the coronavirus lockdown. Continue reading
