Vacancy on the parish council

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Pursuant to section 87(2) of the Local Government Act 1972, that due to the resignation of Amanda Callard, a vacancy has arisen in the Office of Councillor for the Parish Council.

If by 7 November 2025 (14* days after the date of this notice) a request for an election to fill said vacancy is made in writing to the Returning Officer , Ian Fitzpatrick, Lewes District Council, Town Hall, Grove Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4UG, by TEN electors for the said East Chiltington Parish, an election will be held to fill the said vacancy, otherwise the vacancy will be filled by co-option.

If an election is called, it will take place not later than 14 January 2026

Dated: 20 October 2025

Jenni Toomey

Clerk to East Chiltington Parish Council

Expansion of Brighton into Lewes District

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Have your say on Brighton & Hove City Council’s proposal to expand the city boundaries into Kingston ward, East Saltdean, Telscombe, Peacehaven and Newhaven.

Local Government Reorganisation (a central government policy) will see new unitary councils established across East and West Sussex, including Brighton & Hove. A unitary council provides all the public services that are currently split between district/borough councils and the county council.

East Sussex is responding to the government policy in September 2025 with a desire to create one single unitary council, covering the existing East Sussex footprint.

Brighton & Hove City Council has announced that as part of local government reorganisation it is looking to potentially grow the city boundaries and is looking at options to expand into parts of Lewes district, specifically Kingston ward, East Saltdean, Telscombe, Peacehaven and Newhaven.

We have launched a public consultation to understand how our residents feel about these proposals. This is in addition to the previous county-wide consultation to seek views on the changes that will happen because of the reorganisation process.

For those of you that contributed to that survey – thank you. We appreciate an additional survey is a bigger ask on your time and thank you in advance for contributing.

Views of our residents are what matter most. By answering the following survey, you can have your say.

Your feedback will be fed into the East Sussex proposal, which will be considered by government when they decide the size and boundaries of the new unitary councils.

The survey will be stay open until 5pm on Monday 25 August 2025.

Take the survey

 

£1,000 awards for Students in further and higher education

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Up to £1,000 Scholarships available for
Students in Further or Higher Education in the

Parishes of East Chiltington or Westmeston

Deadline 1 October 2026

The Springett and Campion Educational Trust awards Scholarships of up to £1,000 each year to residents of East Chiltington or Westmeston. The Scholarship is for students proceeding to, or already taking, a course of Further or Higher Education and who are in need of financial assistance. The student must be between the ages of 16 and 25 at the date of the commencement of the award.

Applications are eligible from students who are undertaking post-16 education (e.g., A-levels, International Baccalaureate, Higher National Diplomas, Foundation learning, apprenticeships, training courses) as well as post-18 learning that takes place at universities, colleges and institutions (e.g., undergraduate and Masters’ degrees (not PhD), professional qualifications and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) modules).

Tell your friends in East Chiltington and Westmeston if you think they would be interested – we want to make sure everyone knows about this Scholarship which has been running in our parishes since 1710!

An application form can be obtained from:

Professor Phil Ashworth – phil_ashworth@btinternet.com

Completed applications forms must be received (preferably by email) by 1 October 2025 and a decision will be communicated by end-October 2025.

 

Trustees – Phil Ashworth, Justin Fleming and Tessa Haughton

Eton Town “not deliverable”

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Lewes Council Publish Preferred Options for development

Lewes have published their decision on potential sites for development. The good news for East Chiltington is North Barnes Farm (the proposed site for the Eton Town development) has been assessed as ‘Not deliverable or Developable’ and therefore is considered to NOT be a suitable location for development for this plan to take forward through this consultation’.

For more information, click here to see the the full report.

Parish Priority Statement

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Following a survey of residents for the South Downs Park, we now have the results. A very high response of 122 people from 173 households in the Parish made it very clear they did not want to see development in the Parish, and if anything favoured further re-wilding initiatives. To see all the results of the survey please see the attached document:

East Chiltington Trust

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Please find the link to the East Chiltington Trust Website here;  http://theeastchiltingtontrust.org/

Managing your data – privacy and data management statement

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Privacy and data management statement

East Chiltington Parish Council, which manages this website, takes the protection of your data seriously. Our aim is to provide a personalised and valuable service whilst safeguarding our users’ privacy. Collecting some personal information is necessary if we are to satisfy the expectations and requirements of our users and we have set out below what we will do with your personal information.

Visitors to this website

This website does not collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about you when you visit this website, including via Cookies, but please read the details below, which include an explanation of some exceptions.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics service offered by Google, to tracks and analyse traffic to this website. This helps us offer a better user experience for you.

Every device (router, desktop, tablet, smartphone etc) that is connected directly to the Internet is allocated an Internet address called an IP address. This IP address is considered to be PII because it identifies your location.

By default, Google Analytics saves your IP address. To maintain your privacy, however, we have prevented your IP address from being saved by Google Analytics.

Forms

On some pages of the website, there is a form with which you can send a message to our organisation. The forms can include fields of PII, including your name, email address, phone numbers and postal address.

None of this PII is stored in the website’s database or anywhere else. It is only included in an email, which is sent to the recipient of the form and a copy of it to you.

Members of this website

You can register as a member of this website so that you receive an email alert when news items or events are published on the website by an administrator. When you register, we ask for your name and your email address, which are then held in the website’s database. Subsequently, you will receive an email confirming your registration and issuing your password. With your email address and this password, you can sign in to change your email address or your password or remove your registration from the database. Please note:

Only your name and email address are held in the website’s database.
Your email address is not used for any purpose other than:
a) for you to sign in (with your password).

b) to email you a new password if you have forgotten it.

c) to send you email alerts when a news item or event is published on the website.

3. Your name is only used by you or by an administrator of the website to identify your registration record in the website’s database.

4. You can see the information about you that is held in the website’s database by signing in at any time.

5. You can remove your name and email address from the website’s database by signing in at any time.

6. An administrator of the website can remove your name and email address from the website’s database at any time.

This website’s administrators

Administrators can manage the content (text, documents, pictures) on the pages of this website. To do so, the provider of the website creates accounts for administrators, which authenticate them with a username and password and authorise them to do specific administrative tasks.

The only PII held in an administrator’s account in the website’s database is an email address belonging to the administrator. This email address is entered as the username which, with a password, authenticates the administrator. Please note:

The email addresses are not used for any other purpose.
If an individual ceases to be an administrator of this website, we will instruct the website’s provider to delete this administrative account immediately, which will remove any record of their email address from the website’s database.