As from the beginning of this month, mountain bikes can be hired in Shoreham as well as at Hassocks. A visitor to Fulking can arrive at Shoreham by train, walk to AOAC, hire a heavily subsidised mountain bike, cycle north on the Downs Link, then turn east on the South Downs Way. Such a route avoids the road system almost entirely.
Category: Home Page
Seedling Sunday – 11th May 2014
11th May 2014 — 11:00am till 3:00pm in the Village Hall
Come and buy or swap seedlings, vegetables and flowers and have tea and cakes.
Chris Gildersleeve, 552
Fulking Public Path 4f – Proposal to divert public footpath
Fulking Public Path 4f – Part Diversion Order is now being formally re-advertised during the period 27th March 2014 to 24th April 2014. Click the map above to download a four page PDF of the order. You can see the original advertisement here.
To make any comments or objections (by the deadline of 24th April 2014), email West Sussex Legal Services here or write to:
Legal Services (Reference CL/FP 4f)
County Hall
Chichester
West Sussex
PO19 1RQ
Andrea Dickson, Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451 060 / andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
Newtimber Place Gardens
The gardens at Newtimber Place will be open as part of the NGS (National Gardens Scheme) on Sunday 13th April between 2pm and 5.30pm. The gardens are lovely at this time of year with stunning daffodils and beautiful fritillaries. Beautiful Grade I listed C16/C17 moated house (not open). Gardens and woods full of bulbs and wild flowers in spring. Herbaceous border and lawns. Moat flanked by water plants. Mature trees. Wild garden, ducks, chickens and fish. Tea and home made cakes. There are ducks, chickens and guinea fowl wandering around so dogs need to be kept on a lead. Admission £4.00, children free.
Volunteer for a year
Saddlescombe Farm
In memoriam
Fulking Parish Council — Meeting Thursday 10th April 2014 at 7:30pm
In the Village Hall. Members of the press and public are welcome to attend.
- Chairman’s Welcome.
- Apologies.
- Declaration of Interest.
- Approval of minutes 9th January 2014
- Matters Arising from the above minutes not on the agenda (to include Planning inc. Old Pump House, Highways Flooding & Operation Watershed, Lady Brook Spring, Footpath 4f update, Winter Management, NTF Trees).
- Reports from District & County Councillors.
- Preston Nomads
- NTF mowing contract
- Water Fountain
- Fireworks
- Financial Matters (including Cheque List & Stubs, Income & Expenditure to date, quarterly bank reconciliation), Financial Regulations.
- Annual internal audit.
- Annual Parish meeting speaker update & refreshments.
- Thank you — Street Light, Table, NTF Trees & Fencing
- Comments from the floor.
- Dates of next meetings.
Andrea Dickson, Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451 060 / andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
Tommy Brock safe in Fulking
West Sussex is a low risk area for bovine TB with a herd prevalence of around 0.1%, a level that has remained stable since 2006. So contractors with rifles are not likely to come after our large mustelid neighbours any time soon. If you really want to learn more then the just-published Strategy for achieving Officially Bovine Tuberculosis Free status for England [PDF, 85 pages] awaits your attention.
There is no music in the nightingale
Click on the bird for a full LAMBS report. The BBC has elicited a response from the ecowibble office at Mayfield Market Towns Limited:
We have already employed ecologists to carry out preliminary studies, and the next stage will be to conduct more in-depth ecological studies which we will be consulting on at a later stage. This is all part of the normal planning process and we wouldn’t be allowed to develop without showing that we have looked at our ecological impact.
[Title from Shakespeare, illustration by Henry Stannard]