Category Archives: Roads

Major investment in roads and pavements pays off

HIGHWAYS teams are working hard to plan and repair thousands of additional metres of road and pavements across the county funded from an additional £5.8 million investment.

East Sussex County Council’s Cabinet approved additional, one-off funding at the end of 2021 to carry out additional work on top of that covered by the annual £20.4 million highways maintenance budget. Continue reading

Be #deeraware and stay safe on rural roads

MOTORISTS in East Sussex are being urged to be ‘deer aware’ in the coming months to avoid colliding with the animals on rural roads.

Every year there are an estimated 74,000 deer-related traffic collisions in the UK. Deer cross roads all year round but the risk of encountering the animals increases in April and May when young deer are born.

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