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Wealden District Council co-ordinates the Southern Water Local Authority Stakeholder Group which includes representatives from more than 20 councils across the south east, spanning from Folkestone & Hythe to the New Forest.  Its main objective is to act as a platform for local authorities to come together across political party lines, to hold Southern Water (and their regulators) to account for the poor quality of our waterways and coastline. 

It was set up in the aftermath of a catalogue of issues including flooding, sewage seeping into people’s homes, gardens and roads, the ongoing problem of discharges into rivers and waterways and the inability to deal with additional development.