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Keeping Council Tax LOW

Conservatives at all levels across Wealden work hard to ensure the best value from Council Tax

Providing high-quality, best-value services

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VALUE FOR MONEY - Conservative councils deliver high-quality, accredited services.

By working with you, business leaders, partners and our neighbours, in East Sussex we deliver value-for-money and constantly strive for improvement.

Keeping Council Tax low in Wealden:

The majority of county councils have increased Council Tax by 5%, including the adult social care precept; but in well-managed East Sussex, we have kept the increase to £1 a week for a Band D property.

Careful financial management by Conservative Wealden District Council has meant that services can be maintained whilst keeping Council Tax at the same level for 2021/22.

“The Coronavirus crisis has increased the pressure for Council services from residents who rely on the safety net provided by local government,” said Councillor Bob Standley, Leader of Wealden District Council. “The impact it has had on local economy and businesses is something we have never experienced before. It is vital we have the resources to be able to help with the economic and social recovery of the District. But we do not want to increase the financial burden on households, many of whom have faced increased hardships.

“That is why we have decided to freeze the Wealden District Council’s element of your council tax bill for the coming year. Other public organisations are having to increase the amount of money they seek from council tax.

“The fact that we can freeze the Wealden part of the council tax bill is thanks to many years of careful financial management. Additional Government support has gone some way to meet the extra costs we have faced. We are freezing pay for all but the lowest paid Council employees, and freezing Councillors’ allowances.

Restart & Recovery

“This month we updated our ambitious Covid Restart and Recovery Plan for Wealden. We have identified six strategic objectives essential to the District. The first two of these are to support existing businesses, which have been forced to temporarily close, and create the conditions to encourage new businesses to open in Wealden. The Plan also includes:

  • Helping the owners and employees of closed business to find new employment.
  • Encouraging communities to make positive changes to promote physical and mental wellbeing.
  • Building on the strengths of our community and voluntary groups which have proved so important over the past year.
  • Continuing to support the most vulnerable in our community.

“We have already made sure that more than £48 million has been paid out to local businesses. The Council is looking forward to continuing the work of Restart and Recovery in the year ahead.”

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this kind of underhand and mischievous public outburst is not in the best traditions of local councils”

A parish council's outburst is described as "unhelpful" and "inaccurate" by Conservatives on Wealden District Council

Friday, 26 August, 2022

Wealden councillors have reacted to what they consider to be a “thoroughly confused, ill-informed and misleading” statement by one of the district’s parish councils.

the AONB and the rural character of our area not only should, but must be preserved for ourselves and future generations.”

Wealden’s “impossible housing targets” to be scrapped, Conservative leaders at the council are assured by incoming PM

Friday, 26 August, 2022

Wealden’s “impossible housing targets” are to be scrapped, the next prime minister has confirmed to Conservatives running the district council.

Conservative MPs in Sussex demand an end to ‘unacceptable’ Sewage Discharge in strongly-worded letter

Conservative MPs in Sussex demand an end to ‘unacceptable’ Sewage Discharge in strongly-worded letter

Thursday, 18 August, 2022

Conservative MPs from across Sussex have written to Southern Water and the Environment Agency demanding that the Sussex waterways and coast ‘are respected and protected.’

Objections in two planning appeals withdrawn "with a heavy heart" after top legal advice

Objections in two planning appeals withdrawn "with a heavy heart" after top legal advice

Friday, 12 August, 2022

Wealden District Council has decided to withdraw its objections concerning two planning appeals following extensive legal advice.

Developers lodged appeals after the council’s planning committee refused permission for two applications within the Wealden area.

Councillors demand that sewer capacity is properly assessed before granting permission for development

Councillors demand that sewer capacity is properly assessed before granting permission for development, in effort to clean-up rivers

Saturday, 23 July, 2022

In an unprecedented step, Wealden District councillors supported unanimously a decision to censure a statutory water and sewerage company, during a full council meeting this week (20 July).

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Good news from Wealden District Council which reports an end to the bin strike, forthwith

Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

Wealden council are pleased to announce that our waste contractor, Biffa, has informed us this afternoon it has reached a negotiated settlement with the GMB union and as a result the industrial action has been brought to an end.

Conservative-led Wealden District has a new leader as Ann Newton from Framfield is appointed

Conservative-led Wealden District has a new leader as Ann Newton from Framfield is appointed, selecting a new top team

Wednesday, 18 May, 2022

A new leader has been appointed at Conservative-led Wealden District Council and has been ratified by a full meeting of the authority held today.

Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, and leading Conservative councillors force further Government meeting over housing numbers

Wealden's MP, Nus Ghani, and leading Conservative councillors force further Government meeting over housing numbers

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

Conservative leaders at Wealden District Council have intensified their campaign to persuade the Government to lower the number of homes the area is obliged to provide in future years is continuing.

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Over £41 million pledged for cheaper and better bus services across Wealden and East Sussex as part of transport levelling-up

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

Conservative-run Wealden and East Sussex are among thirty-one areas across the country chosen to receive new funding to level up their local bus services through the Government’s £1.2 billion bus transformation programme announced this week.

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New era poised for Wealden district as long-serving Conservative council leader, Bob Standley, stepping down after 12 years at the helm

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Wealden District Council leader, Conservative councillor Bob Standley, has announced he is standing down as leader of the authority in May.

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Council tax is LOWER under Conservatives

Wealden freezes its share of the council tax

Publish Date: 25 February 2021

There will be no increase this year in the amount of council tax Wealden households pay for District Council services.

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