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A joint statement from the Leader of the Council Peter Lamb for Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½, Leader of the Opposition Cllr Duncan Crow and Deputy Mayor of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½, Councillor Morgan Flack.  

A grant from Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council has helped create an innovative photography exhibition at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Museum. Capturing Lockdown 2020 brings both professional and community captured images of the first lockdown to the museum, on the High Street. Back in the early days of the first lockdown, Linda Woodard, a…

With Ofgem’s announcement of a rise in the energy price cap from April 2022, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ residents are being encouraged to check if they are eligible to receive help to lower energy bills under the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme. Under the scheme, which is delivered by Warmworks on behalf of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½â€¦

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council wants to hear your views on introducing a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), which would prohibit dog-related anti-social behaviour in Tilgate Park. The council intends to introduce the PSPO under Section 67 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, prohibiting dog…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council has extended a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) prohibiting the anti-social use of vehicles.  The PSPO was introduced in 2019 because businesses and residents had been affected by vehicles gathering in large groups and drivers engaging in anti-social use of vehicles, particularly…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is urging residents to sign up for Direct Debit to receive their £150 payment towards their energy bills as quickly as possible. Last week the government announced that a payment of £150 will be made in April to Council Tax paying residents in properties in bands A to D to help with…

A man who unlawfully felled two protected trees in Ifield was fined a total of £7,881 at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Magistrates’ Court on Thursday (3 February). Damian Sawyer was prosecuted by Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council and pleaded guilty to felling a cherry tree and a yew tree contrary to a tree protection order. In 2015, Mr Sawyer…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Councillors will be asked to agree an additional discretionary £150 Council Tax discount for vulnerable working age residents at the Full Council meeting on 23 February. Last year, the government provided councils with Council Tax Hardship Funding, which was intended to give each working age…

A rundown property which had become hazardous and a magnet for anti-social behaviour has been closed by Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council and Sussex Police. The privately rented house in West Green had no heating or hot water. It was the subject of an Emergency Prohibition Order under the Housing Act 2004 on 20 January due…

The new Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Innovation Centre has been given the green light and is set to bring a much-needed economic, innovation and technological boost to Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½. The Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Board has approved (subject to contract) £8.4 million funding ear-marked from the government’s “Getting…