Mid Sussex District Council able to transfer £430,000 after positive first quarter
A positive first quarter for 2026/27 has seen Mid Sussex District Council able to transfer £430,000 to its reserves – including money for local government reorganisation.
The news was shared during a meeting of the cabinet on Monday (September 14).
The money came from Treasury Management returns – council income from investments – and will be split equally between the general reserve and the process & efficiency reserve, which covers extra costs for projects such as local government reorganisation (LGR).
Leader Robert Eggleston accepted that ‘some people may raise an eyebrow’ over the latter, given that the government recently paused the LGR process to carry out a review.
Describing the path to LGR as ‘extremely complex and difficult, time-consuming and pressured’, he hoped for clarity from Westminster in the coming weeks about what exactly was going to happen.
Mr Eggleston added: “It’s obviously created a huge amount of uncertainty for the sector, for our staff here and across West Sussex in particular.
“Whilst there’s a pause going on, it would be inappropriate for us to assume that the government has changed course. So the right thing to do is to continue to provide for LGR because the government has committed to doing it – albeit, we don’t know now whether it’s in the same form, a different form, or what.”