Pebsham - consultation meetings

The talks are part of the Rother Local Action Plan.

The plan is being financed thanks to a deal brokered between Rother and the county council which channels into the action plan revenue generated by a change in regulations over Council Tax concessions for second homes.

The Pebsham talks follow those at Sidley and in parishes across rural Rother.

Rother leader Cllr Graham Gubby says: "As chairman of the Rother Local Strategic Partnership and being the person who was instrumental is securing the second homes Council Tax money to support this programme and persuading the LSP board to support me, I am absolutely delighted with the growing success of the programme."

The latest Rother Local Action Plan Newsletter says of the Pebsham consultation: "Funding has been made available through the Rother Local Strategic Partnership to make sure that the views of the local community are at the heart of future decision-making.

"LSP members include Rother District Council, Rother Voluntary Action, Action In Rural Sussex, Bexhill and Rother Primary Care Trust, East Sussex Fire and Rescue, Sussex Police, Rother Homes, 1066 Enterprise Ltd., Rother Race Action Forum and East Sussex County Council."

The first of the Pebsham consultation meetings is expected to take place in February.

Money from a grant fund set up to develop the Local Action Plan and to implement action plan projects across Rother is still available.

Sports grants are available to support clubs and to encourage people into sport.

They include money to support coach training, club support or events for excluded young people.

A community project fund provides grants of up to 5,000 a time for schemes.

Under a crime and safety initiative, 4,000 is available to fund small projects to reduce anti-social behaviour, crime or the fear of crime.

Grants are limited to a 500 maximum.