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Eastbourne Driving Order Pauses 31 Oct; Call to Run All Year
Eastbourne's anti-social driving order lifts on 31 October until April. Councillors want it all year: the roads it covers, the fines and what happens next.
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Planning
Eastbourne Local Plan Consultation: Have Your Say by 13 Nov
The final Eastbourne Local Plan consultation is open until 5pm on 13 November. Where the new homes would go, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, and how to make a comment that counts.
Pier
Eastbourne Pier made a community asset: what it can stop
Eastbourne Pier went on the council's community asset list on 21 September. It buys a six-month pause on a sale, but a sale in an insolvency is exempt.
Planning
Eastbourne Local Plan: 4,400 homes, 7,330 short of target
The plan builds 4,400 homes by 2042 against a government need of 11,730. All 24 sites named, three added, three dropped. Consultation opens 2 October.
Council
Devonshire Park tennis courts set for long lease to LTA
The council agreed a long-term lease handing six Devonshire Park assets to the LTA. Five groundstaff transfer, and the terms were taken in private.
Council
Eastbourne Carpet Gardens: 69.56% back the new planting
16,014 people answered and 69.56% backed the sustainable planting over Victorian bedding. The council says the new scheme now stays, and the report shows why.
Council
Eastbourne Borough Council abolition paused by government
The April 2028 merger of Eastbourne into a new East Sussex Council is on hold while ministers review it. May 2027 elections now run on existing boundaries.
Housing
Eastbourne rough sleeping: £1.5m award to expand support
Eastbourne Borough Council has won more than £1.5m over three years for work on rough sleeping. Last autumn's official count found 29 people on the streets.
Council
Carpet Gardens survey ends 31 Aug: bedding costs £803k more
Carpet Gardens vote ends Sunday 31 August at 5pm. Council figures put traditional bedding at £1.06m over ten years against £257,000 for the new planting.