Status: Current
The council is consulting on our new housing development strategy from 7 February to 31 March 2025. We welcome your views on our plans to encourage and support new housing developments that meets local needs.
Status: Awaiting Results
The council continues to tackle its funding gap between the money we get in and the services that we offer to Rother. We are consulting you on our draft revenue budget for 2025/26. We would like feedback on any potential impact that the council might not know about. This consultation will run from 8 November to 10 January 2025.
Status: Current
Gambling Act 2005 - Rother District Council’s Gambling Act Statement of Principles for 2025 to 2028.
The Gambling Act 2005 requires the Council to prepare and publish a statement of principles every three years. It includes the rules for issuing licences. We are consulting on our draft principles to 19 Nov 2024.
Status: Awaiting Results
The council is consulting on its draft Council Plan that sets out its direction for the next four years, 2024-2028. This is an overarching, high-level document. This consultation runs from 6 September to 9 am, 21 October 2024.
Status: Awaiting Results
We are conducting research until 2 September 2024 on whether or not to renew or extend our current public space protection order (PSPO) about certain anti-social behaviour in Rother.
Status: Awaiting Results
We are consulting until 3 May on whether or not to create a public space protection order to fine people who drive, park or camp on Rother’s beaches. After incidents in 2023 at Herbrand Walk, Bexhill and on Camber sands, this is a possible solution to stop anti-social behaviour and environmental damage.
The council would particularly like to hear from beach users, neighbouring residents, businesses and services on or near the beaches and various groups that use the beaches for business or leisure. We are consulting the relevant town and parish councils with beaches in their borders.
Status: Awaiting Results
We would like the views from taxi drivers and passengers on some proposed changes to the conditions for a licence for hackney carriage and private hire vehicles (taxis) in Rother.
Status: Awaiting Results
We would like the views from our car park users on our proposals to relocate cash payments from Rother District Council owned car park machines to PayPoints. We propose to stop our ticket machines from taking cash but they will continue to take both contactless and credit/debit card payments. Instead, people using our car parks could pay in cash at nearby PayPoints which are located, in local shops and businesses. This consultation relates to our 2024/25 budget and previous budget consultation.
Status: Past
Council Tax Reduction is a discount for Council Tax. The level of discount is based on the income of the household. Currently the maximum discount for pension age households is 100% and for working age households 80% of Council Tax liability.
The Council can only make changes to the working age scheme as the Council Tax Reduction scheme for pensioners is prescribed by Government.
The CTR scheme in Rother currently helps around 6401 households on a low income to pay their council tax. Of these, 3,648 households are of working age and their eligibility is calculated using Rother's Local Council Tax Reduction Scheme. 2,753 are of pension age and their eligibility is calculated using the national scheme.
Status: Awaiting Results
The ongoing difficult financial climate continues to put council budgets under severe pressure.
Inflation, increases in the cost of providing local services such as waste and housing, coupled with over a decade of reductions in central Government funding means that we now face a £3.8 million budget shortfall for 2024/25.
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