LOCAL NEWS

An application has been submitted for a business park which could create 100 jobs. Wealden District Council has submitted a planning application for business park in Farningham Road, Crowborough. The project could start later this year and be finished by summer next year. Last year, Wealden councillors agreed to retain the land, as opposed to selling it off, and instead deliver industrial units with a total floor space of around 12,900 square feet on the 1.8 acre site.

Wealden District Council councillor Philip Lunn, said: “I am delighted we have now submitted a planning application for Farningham Road, which we believe will go some way in helping alleviate the shortage of smaller units in the Crowborough area.”

Small Batch Coffee has permanently shut its branches in Brighton & Hove; at Seven Dials, Norfolk Square and Wilbury Road. The other two branches – in Goldstone Villas, near Hove station, and its Wellington House café and roastery in Camden Street, Portslade –will remain open. There is also a stand at Brighton Station. It is not known whether this will remain open. Staff held a goodbye drinks at the Seven Dials branch recently after their final day of business. A statutory demand letter on the same door claims that Small Batch Coffee Company Ltd owed creditors £11,250.