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Wealden's Cabinet decides on 7 October how to share up to £450,000 of Home Office money: £170,000 for a Crowborough community fund, £50,000 for the town.
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Wealden
Wealden Claimant Count Up 11%, Steepest Rise in East Sussex
Wealden had 2,275 claimants in August, up 11% in a year, the steepest rise in East Sussex. Crowborough's six wards held at 235, all below the district rate.
Crowborough
Crowborough Athletic 1-2 Wimborne: FA Cup Run Ends
Wimborne Town won 2-1 at Crowborough in the FA Cup third qualifying round on 3 October. The seven-game run earned £10,069. Lewes visit on Tuesday.
Christmas
Santa trains near Crowborough 2026: three railways, from £10
Santa Specials near Crowborough for 2026: Bluebell from 28 November, adults from £35 and children from £10; the Lavender Line at Isfield on six December days.
Christmas
Sheffield Park at Christmas: Snowdog trail from 28 Nov
Sheffield Park and Garden's free Snowdogs trail runs 28 November to 10 January. Garden 10am to 4pm, closed 24 and 25 December; adults £20.90, parking free.
Crowborough
Crowborough Heritage Cabinet: Town Council Adds a Second
Crowborough Town Council now runs the heritage cabinet volunteers curated since 2015, and has added a second at Pine Grove. First display: the allotments.
Wealden
Wealden House Prices Jump £6,009 in July, Still Down on 2025
The Wealden average rose £6,009 in July to £391,211, yet is still £3,195 below a year ago. Tunbridge Wells turned positive; June is revised to a 1.2% fall.
Local Info
Crowborough Roadworks: Buxted Shut, Rail Buses to 2 Nov
Framfield Road at Buxted is shut 24/7 to 13 November. The A265 at Burwash shuts overnight 5 to 10 October. Uckfield line buses run to at least 2 November.
Crowborough
Uckfield Line: Southern Says Sorry, Crowborough Q&A 2 Oct
GTR and Network Rail admit the Uckfield line 'has not been good enough'. Senior managers take questions at Uckfield this Friday and at Crowborough on 2 October.
Crowborough
Wealden Local Plan: Crowborough's 10 housing sites named
Ten sites around Crowborough take 356 of Wealden's 16,833 planned homes, led by 120 at Beechenwood Farm. Representations open Monday, close 5pm 2 November.
Crowborough
Crowborough Athletic Hold Hampton 3-3, Home Replay Tuesday
Ten-man Crowborough Athletic led 3-2 in stoppage time at National League South Hampton & Richmond. The FA Cup replay is at Fermor Road on Tuesday at 7.45pm.
Crowborough
Crowborough Trains: Last Direct Train From London Now 17:07
Southern is ending the Uckfield line early each evening while Network Rail works on the points failure. The 20:07 and 22:07 from London Bridge are cancelled.
Crowborough
Crowborough Athletic Win 3-2 in the 92nd, Hampton Up Next
A stoppage-time winner at Whyteleafe took Crowborough Athletic into the FA Cup second qualifying round, away at National League South Hampton on Saturday.
Wealden has four towns of roughly the same size and no centre at all. Crowborough and Uckfield are in the north, up in the High Weald with Forest Row, Buxted, Mayfield, Wadhurst and Hartfield around them and Ashdown Forest on the doorstep. Hailsham and Polegate are in the south, closer to Eastbourne, and Heathfield sits between. The council’s own offices are at Hailsham. Wealden was due to disappear into a new East Sussex Council in April 2028, but the government paused the programme on 7 September 2026 and has not said when it will decide.
Crowborough Today reports from the record for all of it. In a district this rural the planning register matters more than anything else, because a field on the edge of a village becomes an estate on paper long before it does on the ground. We read the register, the licensing notices and the committee papers, and we link to the document on every fact.
Nothing goes up without a link to the source.