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Ann Newton

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Conservative Group Leader at Wealden District Council
Wealden District Councillor for Framfield, Blackboys & Cross-in-Hand
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Ann Newton is the Conservative Group Leader on Wealden District Council.

Representing Framfield, Blackboys and Crossin-Hand Ann has been a Wealden District Councillor since 2007 and is a champion of the local communities she represents.

A parish councillor from 1995, Ann became Parish Clerk to Framfield Parish Council in 1999, a role she still enjoys.

Having been involved in different levels of government for over 25 years she has a broad knowledge of its idiosyncrasies, representing and working with residents on a variety of different issues.

Although now Leader of the Council, it is her local community which is dearest to her heart, having lived in Blackboys for over 30 years, bringing up her family here.  


Campaigning for our communities
Condemning the Government’s storm water reduction plan, as not being stringent enough, Ann says that “pouring sewerage into our rivers and seas is not acceptable in our so-called ‘civilised’ country.”  To tackle this, Ann has met regularly with Southern Water to bring in new working practices so that any new housing must be connected to a functioning sewerage system which then doesn’t impact on adjacent properties.  

Ann played a leading role in getting Government to agree to the recent consultation to reduce housing numbers imposed on local authorities such as Wealden. 

Ann is also working hard with the NHS to provide and retain doctors for our communities.

News

Sheer incompetence by Green/Lib Dem/Labour-run Wealden District Council ruins many Wealden residents’ Christmas

Saturday, 28 December, 2024
Has your Council Tax or Business Rates Direct Debit been taken early?

Wealden's pensioners "left in the cold" as Green/Lib Dem/Labour political party dogma plays with lives

Friday, 29 November, 2024
An unwillingness by Wealden District Councillor’s Leftist Coalition to send a short coherent and punchy message to government, stating the local impact of removing winter fuel payments, leaves Wealden pensioners in the cold.     Following a two-hour-long discussion over
Neil Cleaver

Lib Dem defector joins Conservative opposition at Wealden as council follows left-wing ideology

Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
To best serve his electorate, former Lib Dem councillor Neil Cleaver has announced he is joining the Conservative opposition group on Wealden District Council. The member for Hailsham Central Ward, Cllr Cleaver left his former part earlier this month due to “Green Party influence” in the leadership
Green Party muddle

Conservatives accuse Wealden District Council of "wasting time" debating defunct 'green' paper

Monday, 26 February, 2024
A prominent Green Party councillor has been accused of time wasting in wishing to support a parliamentary Bill which is already defunct. A councillor’s point of order tried to argue that the matter could even be discussed by the council since it fell outside the authority’s remit and was against it
policies

Policy changes introduced “without proper scrutiny” say Wealden Conservatives

Friday, 23 February, 2024
A £700,000 increase in Council Tax levies has been introduced by Wealden District Council without being properly scrutinised, claim opposition Conservative councillors. The policy change which will affect residents was rushed in by the ruling Green Party/Lib Dem coalition which now runs Wealden. M

Conservatives leave meeting accusing council of gagging them over crucial Local Plan vote.

Thursday, 8 February, 2024
Conservative councillors walked out of a Wealden District Council meeting, accusing the authority of gagging their views over a controversial local plan which could lead to thousands of new homes being built in green spaces. Today’s extra-ordinary Full Council is scrutinizing the 9,000 pages of a n
loca plan

Statement from Wealden Conservatives on release of draft Wealden Local Plan by the Green/Lib-Dem coalition council

Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
STATEMENT FROM CONSERVATIVE LEADER ON WEALDEN LOCAL PLAN RELEASE: Obviously it is difficult for us to comment on something we have only just received and over 600 pages to review.
"Increasingly we see Wealden District Council being used as a vehicle for the promotion of the wider political ambitions of a number of Green Party councillors as opposed to providing quality local services

Wealden District's Green/Lib-Dem Alliance yields to calls from Conservatives for conflicted council Chairman to resign

Friday, 5 January, 2024
After substantial resistance, Wealden District Green/Lib Dem Alliance have finally yielded to calls from Conservative District Councillors for the council Chairman to stand down over a conflict of interest. Cllr Christina Coleman, the Green Party Wealden District councillor for Danehill and Fletchi
Save Our Bins, say Wealden residents as district’s recycling sites closed down

Save Our Bins, say Wealden residents as recycling sites closed down by Green/Lib Dem coalition

Thursday, 19 October, 2023
Recycling is to become much harder for thousands of Wealden residents as the council begins to close its neighbourhood recycling centres across the district. The news comes in national Recycling Week when local authorities encourage us all to recycle more although, in Wealden, it may be about to ge
Wealden council accused of re-writing history over Wealden water grants as both MP and former council Leader airbrushed out of story

Wealden council accused of re-writing history over Wealden water grants as both MP and former council Leader airbrushed out of story

Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
An East Sussex council has come under fire for issuing what’s been called an “incorrect and misleading” news release about grants from South-East Water to local community groups and charities. Wealden District Council was forced to re-issue its original news item after incorrectly suggesting that S
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