Our Highway Network
East Sussex County Council is responsible for maintaining most roads and pavements in the county.
Our highway network is vital for keeping local communities safe and connected, and for supporting the economic growth of the County. It is the most valuable publicly owned asset managed by East Sussex County Council and has a current value of around £5.54 billion.
Roads we look after
We repair and maintain most roads and pavements in East Sussex.
Search the map of roads we maintain.
Read more about East Sussex Highway maintenance services.
Roads we do not look after
We do not look after private or unadopted roads.
We also do not look after trunk roads. They are maintained by National Highways (previously Highways England). The trunk roads in East Sussex are:
- A21 outside of Hastings
- A26 between the A27 and Newhaven
- A27 and most of the A259, east of Pevensey (excluding Hastings)
District and Borough councils collect litter and carry out street sweeping.
Our highway network
We are responsible for:
- 3,120 km (1939 miles) of roads
- 2482 km (1542 miles) of footways (pavements)
- 763 km (474 miles) other public rights of way
- 201 km (130 miles) of cycleways
- 2499 km (1533 miles) of road markings
- 100,000 drains
- 505 km (314 miles) of ditches
- 766 grit bins
- 513 bridges
- 2 tunnels
- 246 retaining walls
- 43,695 road signs
- 40,000 safety bollards
- 26 hectares of wildlife verges and 20 hectares of meadow verges
- 55,000 individual trees (estimated)
- 50 ornamental shrub sites
- 4468 km of vegetated verges
- 35 km of hedges
- 37,500 streetlights
- 66 signal-controlled junctions
- 140 signal-controlled crossings.
