You can download the Village Action Plan – August 2013 version by clicking the link below.
Category Archives: Rights of Way
Network of cycle routes
The Department of Transport is giving the SDNPA more than £5 million to create a network of cycle routes into and around the South Downs National Park, including improvements to routes in Hampshire, extensions to routes in West Sussex, and the creation of new routes out of Brighton and around East Sussex. Routes that incorporate railway stations will get particular attention. Implementation is intended to take two years. Further details are due soon.
Happy Jack
Men behaving oddly
Last night at around 3:00am, a car alarm was activated in The Street. When it was investigated, two or three men were seen hanging around by another parked car. The owner of this latter car went outside to check and the men disappeared. The police were called, but they were unable to find anything, although their tracker dog did trace a scent on to the bridleway at the rear of The Street.
Note also that the number plates were stolen from a car parked overnight at the Shepherd and Dog about ten days ago.
If you see or hear anything suspicious, please report it –- the non-emergency number is 101.
The Masterplan
A free concert in which a reformed 0asis perform their old B-sides in Stanmer Park? No, sorry. More like an exercise in which B&HCC attempts to get external funding for all those tasks that have been left undone since Brighton Corporation took the estate over back in 1947. However they are providing an excellent large-scale PDF map of the park which may prove useful next time you visit.
Jack & Jolyon
The Argus reports:
A London barrister plans to spend up to £750,000 on the restoration of a historic Sussex windmill. Jolyon Maugham and his wife Claire bought the Grade II* listed Jack windmill at Clayton for £1.1 million last year and have submitted plans to the South Downs National Park Authority for a “massive” restoration project. If the plans get the go-ahead, the Maughams .. will put back the five-storey building’s distinctive timber cap, which was removed earlier this year for urgent repairs, to match its twin windmill Jill. And they also want to repair the Grade II* listed Duncton Mill on the site, and refurbish a granary and a 1960s house, where the family is currently living.
Heart of Sussex Walk 2013
The British Heart Foundation are organizing a walk from Clayton Windmills to Alfriston on 30th June 2013. Details and registration here.
Walk to Henfield
For those who haven’t already done the walk, Eddie Reader provides instructions at The Argus. His map (above) has a certain visual appeal, but you would be better off clutching a copy of OS Explorer 122.
The View from Bahrain
It is reassuring to discover that the “Round-the-clock Security News Service” of the Police Media Center at the Ministry of the Interior in Bahrain is keeping a close eye on important developments in Fulking. They seem to have missed the recent burglary in Clappers Lane, though.