Westham & Pevensey Local Transport Partnership
Much needed service sets out its aims and gives information about its services
Our aims are “to encourage the provision of improved public transport for the benefit of local residents as a whole, including the establishment and operation of a community transport service and to provide and keep under review, a community transport service for such of the inhabitants of the civil parishes of Westham and Pevensey who are in need of such a service because of age, sickness or disability (mental or physical), or poverty, or because of a lack of availability of adequate and safe public passenger services”.
We were incorporated on 13 November 2007, Westham & Pevensey Local Transport Partnership (WPLTP) is company no 6425892, limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales.
We are run entirely by local volunteers in conjunction with Cuckmere Community Bus, Queen’s Award winners.
Our bus is wheelchair accessible as well as being easily accessible for all people with mobility problems and mothers with pushchairs.
All WPLTP drivers are regularly tested using MIDAS (Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme), in addition they are all CRB checked.
services
Our bus services run in and around Westham and Pevensey, including Beachlands, Pevensey Bay, Hankham, Stone Cross, Langney and Hailsham. A travel pass is accepted on all our public transport services. They are used by anyone, to go shopping, to get to our medical centres, to attend meetings at the village halls and to visit friends. All of us are volunteers, keen to look after you. Will you join us as a volunteer, we need more help?
Rover 6 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays only, is the ‘good neighbour’ providing door-to-door transport from your door to your destination or to connect with other services in the area.
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Call 0845 606 6951, (charged at local call rate) between 09:00-12:30 and 13:30-16:30 to book or ask for advice from one of our friendly local volunteers. Call on Monday (even a Bank Holiday Monday) for Tuesday travel, or Tuesday for Wednesday travel.
Local Shopper (46) on Saturdays only, runs a regular timetabled route, picking up and setting down at bus stops. No booking required.
Our bus services do not operate on Bank Holidays.
