News Articles
Local businesses benefit from council’s priority to spend locally
Publish Date: 16 September 2025
The data comes from an independent data collection agency, Tussell. As a council priority to support local businesses and SMEs, just under half of the total £52 million spent in 2024/25 was with local suppliers based within East Sussex and its neighbours - £4.8 million was spent directly with Wealden-based businesses. The East Sussex Procurement...
Leader’s blog – Sept 2025
Publish Date: 12 September 2025
As far as people are concerned, we believe everyone should improve their health and well-being. It’s vital for them and their neighbours. We have and are supporting several initiatives to enable people to take exercise and to get out into the countryside. The health and well-being page on our website is a mine of information...
Wealden District Council – Local Government Reorganisation
Publish Date: 12 September 2025
Councillor James Partridge, Alliance for Wealden (Liberal Democrat) lead councillor for Governance, Waste & Local Economy and leader of the council, said, “The point of reorganising local government would surely be to make savings and improve service delivery for our residents. We have yet to find a proposal which does either of those things and...
Communities and schools benefit from developers’ financial contributions
Publish Date: 10 September 2025
Developer contributions, or S106 agreements, are negotiated by the planning authority with developers to mitigate impacts on larger development sites, to provide critical infrastructure projects, housing or community services so developers have to pay for necessary improvements to get planning permission. As a result, Wealden District Council has recently authorised the following: Uckfield College will...
Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100th birthday to be celebrated by a long-lasting legacy programme for the Ashdown Forest
Publish Date: 8 September 2025
This investment will help deliver a wide-reaching educational and cultural programme, designed to celebrate the centenary of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2026, while safeguarding the landscape that inspired the story. The Ashdown Forest Foundation (TAFF) is leading a major cultural programme which will focus on three key areas: protecting nature, encouraging reading and storytelling, and bringing people...