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Panto in Poynings

Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp Poynings pantomime
Note: The cast includes a well known local celebrity. When his or her identity becomes known in December it will attract attention in the local press and tickets will sell out rapidly. If you want to attend, you should probably purchase tickets before the end of November (on sale at the Royal Oak from this weekend and via poynings.net soon thereafter).

A second runway for Gatwick


Readers will recall that the Parish Council held a public meeting on Wednesday 30th April to hear the views of the local community and to respond to an earlier consultation document.

Yesterday, the Airports Commission published for consultation its assessment of proposals for additional runway capacity at Gatwick and Heathrow airports.

The consultation presents the commission’s analysis of the proposals shortlisted by the commission last year: two for expansion at Heathrow Airport and one proposal at Gatwick Airport. It invites public comment on the commission’s detailed consideration of each proposal. This includes analysis of the cost of each proposal, the effect on communities of noise, property loss and construction, and the economic benefits and environmental impacts.

The information included in this consultation will enable respondents to give their view on the strengths and weaknesses of each short-listed option. It also invites comment on the commission’s review of the underlying evidence and analysis. These comments will then be taken into account and used to validate and challenge the commission’s assessments, ahead of the final report in the summer of 2015. During the consultation the Airports Commission will hold open discussion sessions for local stakeholders in both the Heathrow and Gatwick areas. The consultation will close on 3 February 2015.

Preston Nomads: licence change

Preston Nomads bar as it once was
Preston Nomads has applied for a change in the way it is licenced. They wish to change from a club certificate to a premises licence. The main differences are as follows:

  • The ability to hire out the premises, provide alcohol and regulated entertainment to non-members;
  • Provision of regulated entertainment — films or recorded music between 8:00am–10:30pm Monday to Sunday, indoors;
  • Supply of alcohol 8:00am–10:30pm, Monday to Sunday indoors and outdoors;
  • Hours of the premises: 8:00am-11:00pm Monday to Sunday.

Further information can, in principle, be found at www.midsussex.gov.uk. Good luck!

Cold call burglaries

Cold-callers linked to 26 burglaries in the region
Sussex Police report:

Since August there have been 26 break-ins at towns and villages across the Horsham district that detectives believe have been committed by the same people. The offences began in August in Storrington but have spread to Coolham, Henfield, Steyning, Horsham, Pulborough, Bramber, Billingshurst, Kirdford, West Chiltington and Ashurst as well as Petworth in the Chichester district. The thieves have escaped with jewellery, cash and unusual household ornaments.

Katy Wood, from the Operation Magpie team, said: “We believe the offenders could be cold-calling at homes to try to work out who is in and whether they are likely to have valuables. We think they are then returning when no one is home — perhaps because the residents have told them they won’t be there — and breaking in”.

The victims closest to Fulking were located at Broomfield Road in Henfield, Kings Barn Lane in Steyning, Maudlyn Park in Bramber, and School Lane in Ashurst.