RESIDENTS and businesses are being invited to have their say on designs for a scheme which will help create a modern and pedestrian-friendly town centre for Eastbourne.

The Eastbourne Town centre Improvement Scheme is a joint project between East Sussex County Council and Eastbourne Borough Council, for which work is expected to start around April 2018. Continue reading →

THE finishing touches are being applied to a programme of road resurfacing in Hastings.

East Sussex Highways last week completed the major part of a scheme to reconstruct and resurface the busy St Helen’s Road in the town. Continue reading →

CONTRACTORS working on highways schemes in East Sussex are being paid in a new way under a pioneering scheme running in the county.

East Sussex County Council is one of the first local highway authorities in the country to use a Project Bank Account to pay companies which carry out highways work. Continue reading →

A CUSTOMER service team has clinched a national award for a pioneering approach allowing problems with East Sussex roads to be dealt with more quickly and efficiently.

The switch by East Sussex Highways to a new, more ‘personalised’ way of working and a high-tech software system has seen average call response times slashed from 90 seconds to just nine seconds. Continue reading →