Rother Local Plan – Proposed Submission Version (Regulation 19) – Invitation to comment : Rother District Council is preparing a new Local Plan. The Local Plan is the blueprint for how Rother could develop and change up to 2042. It sets out where new homes, jobs, facilities and infrastructure may be located, while protecting the district’s valued landscapes, heritage and character.
Following two earlier periods of public consultation in 2024 and early 2026, we have now published the Rother Local Plan 2025–2042: Proposed Submission Version and its supporting documents for a 6-week period for representations.
This formal Regulation 19 publication stage, which is open from Monday 12th October 2026 until 23:59 on Tuesday 24th November 2026, is your opportunity to review the plan and submit representations on whether it meets statutory legal requirements and national tests of soundness before it is submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination. Further details are available in our Statement of Representations Procedure (available on the Council’s website at www.rother.gov.uk/draftlocalplan2026).
Crime reporting – report any suspicious activity to police on 101 or via. Sussex.police.uk – or 999 in the case of a crime in progress
THREE OAKS HALL HIRE – 3 Oaks Hallmaster
or email : bookings@threeoaksvillagehall.org.uk
Weekdays £10 an hour Weekends £12 an hour (Electric meter takes £1 coins)
GUESTLING HALL HIRE – Colin Jury Tel : 01424 812584
The parish of Guestling and Three oaks lies about 4 miles north-east of Hastings on and around the A259.
Guestling is derived from the Anglo Saxon Gestling (Gesta’s family). Gestlinges is one of the three villages mentioned in the Domesday book as being part of the rape of Gestlinges, also including Luet( Modern Pett ) and Ramslie( a large manor including Fairlight ). The Main Court for the Western towns in the Cinque Ports was held at Guestling.
Three Oaks has its own village hall and Guestling village hall is beside the junction with the A259 and Church Lane which leads to Church of St Lawrence.
Hand made bricks are made in Fourteen Acre Lane, Three Oaks. The Guestling bricks are in great demand for restoring Churches and other old buildings. Customers have included Camber Castle, Hampton Court and Buckingham Palace.
Guestling and Three Oaks are served by two public houses. The Three Oaks in Butchers Lane and the White Hart on the A259.
One of England’s great scholars at the time of Shakespeare birth, was Gregory Martin. He was born in Maxfield, an old timbered house in Three Oaks. He became the tutor in the house of the Duke of Norfolk, and spent the last years of his life at Rheims. Here he translated the Latin Bible into English. He died in 1582 and is buried in Rheims.
The parish is crossed by a network of public footpaths and bridleways, providing great walking and panoramic views of the Sussex countryside.