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A275 South Street, Chailey

Balfour Beatty is working in partnership with East Sussex County Council to manage the highways service across East Sussex. We will soon be carrying out carriageway investigations on the A275 South Street, Chailey.

When do they start?

Work will be carried out from Monday 15 December to Thursday 18 December 2025 between 8pm and 6am. We will inform you of any changes to the dates or times via advanced warning signs on site.

What are we doing? We are carrying out site investigations, including trial holes and core holes, to gather information about the condition of the road, to help plan possible future works to the carriageway.

How will this impact highway users?

We will be working between the Mill Lane and Markstakes Lane junctions.

The road will remain open with temporary traffic lights in place and work will be carried out in phases to minimise disruption.

Information for residents and businesses:

Parking: If required, we will put out ‘no parking’ signs and cones on the site to advise where parking is restricted. Please avoid parking in these locations as it will delay our works.

Weather: All of these works are subject to favourable weather conditions, for example heavy rain may affect the progress of the works.

Properties close to the carriageway may notice some noise, flashing lights, or reversing sirens. We will do our utmost to keep this to a minimum.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologise in advance for any inconvenience or disruption this work may cause, however this forms part of our continuing improvement for the East Sussex highway network. Should you have any concerns regarding these works, you can contact us at eshcomms@balfourbeatty.com.

For information on roadworks and journey planning, visit One.Network. Please follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @esccroads or Facebook @EastSussexHighways for updates. If you would like to know more about East Sussex Highways and what we do, please visit our website www.eastsussexhighways.com.
Thank you,
East Sussex Highways

Lewes District Council is set to implement Alternate Weekly Collections (AWC) in February 2026 to increase the district’s recycling rate.

Collection days will change for most residents and new collection calendars will be issued in January 2026 ahead of the changes.

The new system will see residual refuse (black sack waste) collected fortnightly, while recycling collections will also remain fortnightly, alternating with the refuse collection day.

Food waste collections will continue, along with weekly collections for non-infectious medical waste for those who register.

For concerns about pests, residents are reminded to put the food waste caddy handle all the way forward to ‘lock’ the lid shut.

To help get ready for the change, the following options are available:

• Free weekly food waste collections
• A larger recycling bin
• An additional recycling bin
• A larger refuse bin
• An assisted collection
• Weekly clinical waste collection e.g. for adult incontinence pants
• A voucher for reusable nappies, wipes, and sanitary products to help reduce refuse waste

The move to alternate weekly collections follows an engagement exercise which
indicated that many residents were happy to embrace a two-weekly refuse collection, provided the food waste service stayed weekly. Some 97% of the 2,150 respondents thought it was important or very important to recycle from home. Furthermore, 71% of respondents currently put out a refuse bin each week that is not full.

Read the FAQs and download the engagement report at www.lewes-eastbourne.gov.uk/AWC

It happens every year, doesn’t it?  You get the carving knife out to serve the turkey and it’s blunt. You get the Christmas tree lights out and they don’t light up. You put your favourite music  on your vintage CD/vinyl player and it doesn’t work. Fear not – we are open on  8^th November and 13^th December to help you get things going again. Don’t forget that we also can help with computers and printers which are playing up, as well as repairing  wooden items, ceramics, clothing, cycles and repairing/sharpening those garden tools!

 

We are now getting seriously busy, with over 100 visitors bringing us nearly 60  repairs to October’s Repair Café, all of which we  tackled in 3 hours. That included a ride on Unicorn and a remarkable tablecloth  autographed by stars of the 1940s and 50s…!! But please don’t arrive at 1250hrs with a really complicated repair….

 

Portable domestic items only please – and, sorry, but no fridges or microwaves. We will try to repair your item while you wait and watch what we do, so you’ll be able to fix it yourself next time!! We do not charge for the service, but invite you to make a donation to support our running costs. There is no need to book – just turn up and we will see you as soon as we can.

 

You’ll find us at St Peter’s Church, Chailey on the A275 at Chailey Green on the second Saturday   of each month (i.e. 8^th Nov, 13^th Dec) between 1000hrs and 1300hrs where we’ll have a full Café service including our legendary cakes.  Not sure if we can fix your item?  Email us   at chaileyrc@gmail.com  and  we’ll see what we can do to help.

 

See you  soon!!

 

Bryan McAlley and the Chailey Repair Café team

South East Water – Customer and business restrictions

To conserve as much water as possible, from today, 10 October, South East Water have removed some of the exemptions currently in place as part of our Temporary Use Ban, or hosepipe ban.

These exemptions include:

• Watering new lawns at domestic premises
• Watering trees, whips, saplings and hedges planted before the ban and within the last three years
• Watering food crops at domestic premises or private allotments

If we previously wrote to customers to explain they were exempt from the hosepipe restrictions, this has ended and they are no longer able to use their hosepipe.

If they were not exempt but activities they were doing were covered by an exemption, this has also now ended.

This means the only time where a hosepipe can now be used is for health and safety purposes.

Alongside this, we’ve fast-tracked several projects to:

• Make sure water can move more easily around our network
• Take the pressure off existing supply sources
• Transfer more water into Sussex

For example, a new pipeline connecting treated water from Bewl in Kent to the East Sussex network will soon be active. This will move water between the counties for the first time, giving us greater resilience and flexibility and allows us to move water from areas with a good supply to those that need it more.

While all this will help, as mentioned previously if we do not apply for this Drought Order, there is likely to be a severe impact to the public water supply meaning we will not have the water available to supply to customer taps.

We do not take applying for a Drought Order lightly, and the actions we are taking will help us to carefully and responsibly manage these vital resources for the benefit of both our customers and the environment.