Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th September (at least) to allow jetting of the highway drainage system.
Author: LocHist
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Green and Pleasant Land
A five week WEA course on the great South Downs estates to be taught by Janet Sinclair at Penfold Hall in Steyning, Tuesdays 2:30pm–4:30pm, from 3rd February to 3rd March 2015. Topics to be covered include the great families, their homes and estates (Arundel, Petworth, Goodwood); demise and rebuilding (Cowdray, Stansted Park, Uppark House, Parham, West Dean, Pallant House); those who worked and lived on the estates (Stansted Park, Petworth); etc. More information and booking details here.
Rushfields Cafe cook required
[With thanks to Colette via poynings.net for the purloined photo.]
Rampion briefing
If you have a technical interest in the difficulties that beset the construction of an offshore wind farm like Rampion, then the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is running an event that may be worth your time. It will cover:
- Engineering challenges
- Ground model and concept selection
- Multi vessel geotechnical and geophysical ground investigations
- 3D ground modelling
It takes place on 23rd September from 6:00pm–8:00pm at the Holiday Inn in Gatwick. You don’t need to be a member of ICE to attend, but you do need to register with them and book. More here.
Steyning Horticultural Society Autumn Show
Saturday, August 30th from 2:30pm at the Steyning Centre. Flowers, fruit, vegetables, photography, craft, cookery, and refreshments
Dog-leg restored
Yellow Ribbon Ball
The 2014 LAMBS Fundraising Ball is to be held in the Beethoven Suite at Hickstead on Saturday 11th October from 6:30pm to 1:00am. The three course dinner starts at 7:45pm. There will be a live band and music to dance to. Tables can be bought for 8-12 people. Use this form [PDF] to book tickets. The same form can be used to order programme advertising.
Beeding Flower Show
Beeding and Bramber Horticultural Society are having their summer show in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, tomorrow, Saturday August 23rd.
Mineral Sites Study
The Mineral Sites Study [PDF] is a recently published document deriving from the joint SDNPA/WSCC exercise known as the Minerals Local Plan. Despite four pages devoted to a potential seventy acre gravel pit on a greenfield site in Woodmancote*, there is little in it to interest a resident of Fulking or Edburton. The one possible exception is a five page section [PDF] devoted to Shoreham Cement Works. There’s a lot of chalk left, apparently, and a planning permission for further extraction that runs until 2042, a fact that appears to have come as an unwelcome surprise to the current generation of planners (as it may to future generations of the ‘rare breeding birds’ who have made the site their home). If you feel inclined to respond to the study, then WSCC provide a form here.
*Not our northern neighbour but a different village, located to the west of Chichester.