
Conservative Candidate for Forest Row & Groombridge Division, ESCC May 2021
Simon Kirby is your Conservative East Sussex County Council candidate for Forest Row & Groombridge Division - which includes: Balls Green, Blackham, Boarshead, Chuck Hatch, Coleman's Hatch, Eridge Green, Hartfield Village, Lye Green, Mark Cross, Marsh Green, Newbridge, Upper Hartfield and Withyham.
Simon is very proud that he can trace his family history back in Sussex for hundreds of years. Simon lives with his wife, Elizabeth, has six children.
He was first elected as a County Councillor in 1992, has served as a Conservator of Ashdown Forest, set up a radio station, run multiple pubs and restaurants, lived in New Zealand, been an MP and Government Minister, and is now growing grapes in East Sussex to make sustainable wine.