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Crowborough's hockey club is one of five joining South East Hockey Futures in year two. The scheme reached 2,000 children in over 50 schools in its first year.
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Banking
Crowborough Banking Hub: MP Will Keep Calling for a Review
Nusrat Ghani MP says Crowborough was told it does not need a Banking Hub and wants a review. Birth services and the camp also came up in talks with the Mayor.
Roads
Sybron Way Crowborough: Broken Junction Blamed for Near Miss
A Millbrook Business Park worker says the broken road where Sybron Way meets the B2100 nearly caused a crash on 27 October. His photos show the junction.
Homes for Ukraine
Crowborough Ukraine Hosts: £350 a Month Kept Until March
East Sussex County Council will keep Homes for Ukraine thank you payments at £350 a month to the end of March, after the government cut them to £100.
Danehill
Danehill Coach & Horses: Publicans Retire, Offer Ends 15 Nov
Danehill's Coach and Horses is for sale as its long-serving publicans retire. Villagers have raised £462,000 of £800,000; shares from £250 close 15 November.
Roads
Crowborough Potholes: £2.9m County Grant Is Not New Money
East Sussex has secured £2.9m for road repairs, but it is not new money and one Crowborough road is on this year's list. Checked November 2026.
Wealden
Wealden Council Abolition Back On: New Council April 2029
Ministers are minded to replace Wealden and East Sussex County Council with one East Sussex Council in April 2029, a year later than planned in July.
Council tax
Wealden £100 Energy Payment: 62% of Homes in Bands A to D
About 47,600 Wealden homes are in council tax bands A to D and qualify for the £100 Household Energy Payment from January. In Crowborough it is 58%.
Remembrance
Crowborough War Memorial: Remembrance Goes Ahead on 8 Nov
Both Remembrance services will be held at Crowborough's damaged war memorial. Repairs may be done in time, and volunteers have made a poppy veil for the pillar.
Crowborough Army Camp
Crowborough Army Camp 2030 Plan: No Public Comment Period
The Home Office bid to house up to 540 asylum seekers at the camp to January 2030 went public on 30 October. Residents get no formal window to comment.
Uckfield
Uckfield Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Uckfield
Uckfield roadworks: Public Footpaths in Little Horsted (now, until 16 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the...
Crowborough Town Council
Crowborough Town Council Holds £1.3m of Developer Levy
Crowborough Town Council held £1.31m of unspent developer levy at the end of March, second in Wealden to Hailsham. A new £1.1m district payout adds more.
Food & Drink
Christmas Dinner in Crowborough 2026: Pubs and Prices
Eight pubs and hotels around Crowborough with 2026 Christmas Day prices, from £57.95 to £155, plus deposits and festive menus. Checked November 2026.
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 is due to disappear into a new East Sussex Council: on 29 October 2026 the government said it was minded to go ahead with a new council from 1 April 2029, subject to a final decision.
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.