The county town of East Sussex, as elsewhere in the UK, has experienced soaring social inequality over the past 45 years ...

The council said councillor Paul Davies was elected Chair of Lewes District Council for 2025/6 at a meeting of Full Council on Monday, May 19. He replaces the outgoing Chair, Councillor Lesley ...

Local families on the council's housing register are expected to move into the new properties from spring 2023. The development by Lewes District Council will include 19 one and two-bedroom flats ...

Council tax payers in parts of East Sussex say they have been getting demands for extra payments, some for hundreds of pounds. Lewes District Council said it had had problems with its computer ...

Lewes District Council has been ordered to pay a developer’s appeal costs in connection with a rural housing development. Earlier this month, a planning inspector issued a decision connected ...

Controversial proposals related to a 5G mast in Lewes are set to go back in front of councillors. At a meeting, due to be ...

A council has agreed what it describes as a "massive step forward" to achieving its climate goal. Lewes District Council has passed plans that will lead to a new fleet of low emission refuse and ...

Meanwhile, 1,400 families in the Lewes district are on the council house register, and no housing in the area is affordable to low-income families, except at social rent levels. Santon’s project ...