Following an initial Town Council exercise to understand costings, contractors are now being invited to tender for our project to improve the Victoria Pleasure Ground Play Area.
Whilst we give contractors time to draw up designs, we want to hear from Uckfield residents to understand what’s important to you.
A public consultation day will be arranged in April once designs are submitted, but before then, we’ve set up a short survey online and in paper format where you can give us your views.
To complete the survey online, click here: Victoria Play Area Consultation
The deadline for responses is 11:59pm on Wednesday 19 March 2025.
Uckfield Town Council is one of three local authorities delivering services in your local area.
We created a survey back in October/November to find out more about what you as a local resident think about where you live. We were keen to understand:
The survey was created on Google Forms, and has now closed. The highlights from the results will be shared on this webpage shortly.
Thank you to everyone who took part, we really appreciate your time and input!
The feedback received will not only inform our priority setting for 2025, but also inform our conversations with key stakeholders such as the District Council, County Council, partner agencies and developers. It will assist us with our longer term planning and help us understand what you consider important for the town in the future.
Wealden DC would like your views on how they spend their money, how they could raise more money and the level at which the District Council should set the council tax next year.
They provide many services including waste collection, environmental health, council housing, planning and building control. To help shape their budget for 2025/26, they have launched a survey.
Council Budget 2025-26 | Let’s Talk Wealden
The deadline for responding to the consultation falls on: Friday 10 January 2025
East Sussex County Council consultations
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) regularly consults on its ‘Core Offer’.
To help manage the financial pressures that the County Council is under, they have created a Core Offer of what can be provided in terms of services and what residents should expect from them.
They also run several other surveys throughout the year, which relate to their services such as highways, education, and libraries.
If you are interested in keeping an eye on and participating in other consultations run by East Sussex County Council, please visit:
https://consultation.eastsussex.gov.uk/
The Office of the Sussex Police & Crime Commissioner runs frequent consultations with residents, in particular over the December/January period in the lead-up to their budget setting to understand residents’ priorities regarding community safety.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner, Katy Bourne, invites residents to provide their thoughts on policing priorities in a survey about the precept, the element of council tax which funds 41% of the Sussex Police budget.
For information on the breakdown of Police funding, visit:
https://www.sussex-pcc.gov.uk/about/transparency/what-we-spend-how-we-spend-it/what-we-spend-how-we-spend-it/
Please watch this space for further information about upcoming consultations.
https://www.sussex-pcc.gov.uk/get-involved/events-surveys/ or see their latest news page here: https://www.sussex-pcc.gov.uk/about/news/
In February 2024, Wealden District Council announced the publication of its Draft Local Plan.
This superseded the Draft Local Plan that was drawn up in 2019 and subsequently withdrawn in 2020. The new plan intends to offer a plan for how the district will develop between 2025 and 2040.
Between 15 March 2024 and 10 May 2024, Wealden DC ran an eight-week consultation period which would allow for all district residents to have their say on the Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan.
Uckfield Town Council prepared a detailed response to the questions asked within the plan. A copy of the responses are detailed below:
Chapter 3 – Vision and Objectives
Chapter 4 – Spatial Strategy
Chapter 5 – Climate Change
Chapter 6 – Natural Environment
Chapter 7 – Historic Environment
Chapter 8 – Housing
Chapter 9 – Infrastructure
Chapter 10 – Design
Chapter 11 – Economy
Chapter 12 – Town Centres
To review the contents of the draft plan, visit:
https://www.wealden.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-policy/wealden-local-plan/
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