Consultation on boundary of Lewes district

Have your say by Monday 25 August 2025

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.

Lewes District Council and East Sussex County Council have launched a public consultation to understand how 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 we thank you in advance for contributing.

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.