News releases
A MAJOR milestone in the development of a new school for secondary age SEND students in Crowborough has been celebrated with the completion of the roof at Acre Wood Academy. Children and their families were joined by representatives from East Sussex County Council and London South East Academies Trust (LSEAT) at a special event on Wednesday, July 8, where construction specialists Willmott Dixon...
Karen Bowles Wednesday, 8 July 2026
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Councillor Zoe Nicholson, Leader of Lewes District Council, said: “I want to be clear about the considerable disappointment we feel regarding the eleventh-hour proposals put forward by Brighton and Hove City Council for local government reorganisation. As a result of their last-minute bid, these plans have been developed for communities they have failed to consult and, quite frankly, do no...
Karen Bowles Wednesday, 17 September 2025
LEADERS have welcomed approval of their plans to collaborate in a single strategic authority for Sussex with a directly elected mayor. The government has agreed to move forward with a Mayoral Combined County Authority (MCCA) and confirmed the first mayoral election will take place in May 2026. The new MCCA will bring together all upper tier local councils across Sussex to operate across th...
Karen Bowles Thursday, 17 July 2025
EAST Sussex County Council has overcome huge challenges to deliver vital services to thousands of residents, an annual report shows. State of the County reveals how the authority supported more than 30,000 people through adult social care services in 2024/25 and had contact with more than 48,000 children and young people through its children’s services team. The report, which will be presented...
Karen Bowles Tuesday, 17 June 2025
RESIDENTS are being invited to take part in a consultation that will help reshape local government and how services are run in the future. Government wants to reorganise local government so that everyone in East Sussex gets their services from just one council. This could mean the county council and district and borough councils would be replaced by a single authority. Other options could also...
Karen Bowles Monday, 12 May 2025
ROAD users will benefit following a successful bid for £875,000 to improve the safety of a road in Hastings. East Sussex County Council has been awarded funding from the Government’s Safer Roads Fund (SRF) to implement safety improvements on a section of the A2101. The scheme, which is the first Safer Roads Fund scheme in East Sussex, will deliver improvements at 15 locations from the junction...
Karen Bowles Wednesday, 20 March 2024
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