The Council’s capital programme includes new school developments and children’s centres, improvements to services for older people, a new link road and new libraries.
The proposed programme, which would be carried out over the next five years, will be discussed at the full County Council meeting on Tuesday 12 February 2008.
“If full council agrees, this will be a huge investment by the County Council designed to improve services for local communities, “said Tony Reid, Deputy Council Leader. “We’ll be spending in the region of £400m between now and 2013 and carrying out major projects across East Sussex. We are able to do this because of sensible forward planning and careful financial management”.
The Council is proposing a further programme of new children's centres and extended schools facilities across the county. Planned works at a number of primary schools, which had been postponed after the government withdrew funding, have been reinstated by the County Council.
Adult Social Care improvements include renovations and improvements to care facilities for older people as well as additional funding for schemes that support older people to continue to live independently.
The £89m Bexhill Hastings Link Road is a major feature of the programme along with over £10million of highways improvement works including monies for improving speed management in our towns and villages. New libraries are also planned for Hastings and Newhaven and funding for the preliminary work for a new archive facility – ‘The Keep’ - to be built near Falmer.
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