Update 4th August — photos by Tony Brooks of the work in progress over the weekend:
Latest News of Local Interest
The UK National Property Register
[There’s a sister service called CheckMEND, the fence’s friend: if someone offers you a purportedly stolen iPad in a pub you can use this service to check that the item really has been stolen and that the seller is not simply trying to palm you off with something that he bought from a shop quite legally but has got bored with.]
SDNPA issues first article 4 direction [update 2]
The Hampshire Chronicle reports the views of the farmer in the case:
The national park misrepresented the situation. They have decided that because I repositioned a gateway that I was going to sub-divide the field. They have used their powers wrongly. They have stopped us putting stock there. They have misused the legislation. The trouble with the national park is that they have too much power. They should have come to me and consulted me. At no point was I going to sub-divide or put horses there. I have spent a lot of money restoring the field to meadowland from arable. The national park is wasting everybody’s money. Authority gone mad. They have taken away my right and I cannot even put cattle in. The park authority is jumping because a few people make a fuss.
Bob talks to The Argus
Fulking Fair 2014 photos here.
Short distance operator
She won’t be routing your calls from 1st October. You will no longer be able to dial 857XXX in order to reach your neighbour and delicately suggest that 2:00am on a Monday morning is perhaps not the ideal time for testing his new Jamaican subwoofers on the patio. You’ll just have to dial 01273-857XXX instead. Colin Warburton has more from the girl at the Poynings exchange.
Lake Pippin [déjà vu]
On Monday 4th August, WSCC are due to begin another of their occasional attempts to inhibit the formation of Lake Pippin during the West Sussex monsoon seasons.
Call for volunteers [reminder]
Work will be starting on the project at 10:00am on Saturday 2nd August. Volunteers are needed to work between the hours of 10:00am–4:00pm on Saturday and 10:00–1:00pm on Sunday. Volunteers may also be required on Monday 4th and Tuesday 5th August. If anybody is interested in volunteering please can they let me know by email or just turn up at the spring.
Contact:
Andrea Dickson/Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
01444 451060/andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
More open access land
The Argus reports:
Brighton and Hove City Council has created free public access to another 670 acres of Sussex downland. .. Five miles of new footpaths and bridleways have been created, meaning walkers on the Sussex Border Path can divert on to a route keeping them further away from busy roads. Works have involved installing gates and cutting a new path up a steep bank at Braypool. .. The surrounding landscape includes ancient burial mounds on top of Tegdown Hill, lynchet terraces .. and the Chattri monument.