{"id":393560,"date":"2026-01-27T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393560\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:11:07","slug":"24-flood-alerts-issued-in-sussex-amid-storm-chandra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/393560\/","title":{"rendered":"24 flood alerts issued in Sussex amid Storm Chandra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Environment Agency said flooding is expected in two areas of the county &#8211; Barcombe Mills on the River Ouse, north of Lewes, and at Hellingly and Horsebridge on the Cuckmere and Bull Rivers, near Hailsham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Barcombe Mills, The Anchor Inn, fields and gardens are expected to flood, with Anchor Lane and Barcombe Mills Road &#8220;likely to be impassable&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  People living nearby have been advised to activate flood protection products.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Hellingly, the Environment Agency said flooding will affect properties in Mill Lane, as well as Grove Hill near Grovebridge Farm and Hammer Lane near Cowbeech.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  From 2pm, flooding will also affect properties in Station Road, Church Lane and Church Road, as well as the roads, fields and gardens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A further 22 flood alerts have been issued across West and East Sussex, meaning flooding is possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/25794439.sussex-face-heavy-rain-met-office-warning-issued\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued in Sussex<\/a> as Storm Chandra hits the county.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The flood alerts are in place at:\n<\/p>\n<p>Bridge Road, Emsworth<\/p>\n<p>  Lower Arun<\/p>\n<p>  Lower River Ems<\/p>\n<p>  River Adur East Branch<\/p>\n<p>  River Adur West Branch<\/p>\n<p>  River Lox<\/p>\n<p>  River Mole and its tributaries from Kinnersley Manor to South Hersham<\/p>\n<p>  Rivers Eden and Eden Brook<\/p>\n<p>  River Uck<\/p>\n<p>  Tilmore Brook Petersfield<\/p>\n<p>  Upper Arun<\/p>\n<p>  Upper Ouse<\/p>\n<p>  Upper River Medway<\/p>\n<p>  Upper River Mole, Ifield Brook, Gatwick Stream and Burstow Stream<\/p>\n<p>  Upper River Wey<\/p>\n<p>  Western Rother<\/p>\n<p>  Combe Haven<\/p>\n<p>  Cuckmere River<\/p>\n<p>  Langney Haven<\/p>\n<p>  Polegate and Wannock<\/p>\n<p>  Rivers Tillingham and Brede<\/p>\n<p>  Upper River Stour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency said flooding is expected in two areas of the county &#8211; Barcombe Mills on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-393560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}