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Sheep at Saddlescombe? Never!

The white and black woolly creatures that you have often seen in the fields around Saddlescombe were just wolves in drag, apparently. The Argus is reporting that 692 real sheep have now arrived together with the “first sheep farmers for 70 years”.

Fulking Parish Council – Planning Meeting Wednesday 16th October 2013

Fulking Parish Council will hold an Planning Meeting on Wednesday 16th October 2013 at 6.30pm in the Village Hall

TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING PLANNING APPLICATIONS:-

SDNP/13/04474/LIS – Customary Cottage The Street Fulking Henfield BN5 9LU

Installation of a chimney flue

Full information available on the South Downs National Park Website – here

Members of the Public and Press are invited to attend.

Members of the public are entitled to speak at the meeting for two minutes, by prior arrangement with the Clerk Mrs. Andrea Dickson , tel 01444 451060 at least 1 hour before the meeting. No more than two speakers for each application and two against.

Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
12 Turners Mill Road
Haywards Heath
West Sussex
RH16 1NN
andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com

More Rampion meetings

The Argus notes:

Various meetings will be held by the Government’s Planning Inspectorate to examine EON’s application.

The first three will be held on Wednesday, October 30, Thursday, October 31 and November 1 at 9.30am at the Brighton Centre syndicate wing one and two.

A development consent order and deemed marine licence hearing will take place on Wednesday, November 6 and Thursday, November 7 at the Brighton Centre auditorium.

Further hearings will take place throughout November and December, a full list of which is available at planningportal.gov.uk – application reference number EN010032.

[If you can find that list, please email us the URL and it will be added to this post.]

Fulking Parish Council – Meeting Thursday 10th October 2013 at 7.30pm

Please note there is a Fulking Parish Council meeting to be held on Thursday 10th October 2013 in the Village Hall.

You can download a copy of the agenda by clicking the link below.

FPC Meeting – Draft Agenda October 2013

Defib-in-the-box

The Shoreham Herald is reporting that public access defibrillators are to be put into defunct telephone boxes across Steyning, Bramber and Upper Beeding.

GMB not at work

The website reNews is reporting that the GMB union has belatedly realized that Rampion is unlikely to provide much work for its members:

UK union GMB has today called on German utility Eon to provide more information on the employment benefits from the 665MW Rampion offshore wind farm near Brighton.

The union, which represents workers in the energy industry, is concerned that the Round 3 project will bring no boost to the UK economy yet would assure Eon “a good return on their investment”.

GMB said it suspected that Eon will source the turbines from Germany or Denmark, transport them on barges from the Netherlands and connect them with cables made in China.

“Trials, incentives and tackling negative perceptions”

More of the same

Hugh Rapley, 1922-2013, RIP

Hut Farm, Fulking c1980, aerial photo by Joe Lancaster — An aerial photo of Hut Farm by Joe Lancaster, taken around 1980. The farm buildings are bottom left, Pippins and Poynings Road are top right.

Hugh Rapley used to live in Clappers Lane and he and his family left many many imprints on Fulking which still echo in the village. Hugh and his brother ran the market garden and dairy from Hut Farm (see photo above). The cows fed in the field which is now the smooth green cricket club pitch (Preston Nomads). Their milk was still being delivered around the village in the mid 1980s. And Hut Farm? Now transformed into Cannonberries, a single storey dwelling precisely on the site of the old farm buildings with extensive and elegant gardens where the long strips of the fuit and veg had grown for years.

Hugh had an interest in clocks especially old clocks. He could mend neighbours’ clocks and he restored beautiful old clocks and sold many of them in the village shop. People were often very surprised having come in for an ice cream to then see these working antique clocks at very modest prices alongside collectible old books, local pottery and paintings, local bread, baked beans, butter and a post office.

Before the war Hugh’s cow field had been the village field, I was told. And our current village field (North Town Field)? That was probably a cow field. And Barn Cottage, in the north west corner of old Hut Farm? Exactly what it says: a bungalow built ‘inside’ a barn when planners said ‘no’ to proposed demolition.

Gill Milner, Old Post Office

Hut Farm, Fulking, 1946 — **Another aerial photograph of Hut Farm, this one taken in 1946**

Snow on the Bomb House

Fulking residents see it every day as they look up at the Downs. But what is it? When was it built? Why is it in that location? Is it a relic of the Napoleonic wars? Was it once a semaphore station? A camera obscura? Did it play a role in James Hubbard’s Victorian recreation complex on the Dyke? Why is it called “the bomb house”? Did it ever have a roof? Why is it half full of earth? Why are several walls damaged? Is Canada to blame?

You’ll find out the answers to these questions, and many others, if you attend Martin Snow’s talk The Devil’s Dyke — Pleasure Ground to Bombing Ground at the Beeding & Bramber Local History Society meeting at 7:45pm on Wednesday 2nd October in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding.