Fulking Fair 2014 photos here.
Latest News of Local Interest
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.
Edburton School
The end of July brings two new items to the website’s local history section: Edburton School I by F.A. Howe and Edburton School II by Tony Brooks. Term starts 3rd Sept.
Organized mountain bike rides
Mayfield lawfare resumes
The Mid Sussex Times reports:
Mayfield has stated that Horsham District Council (HDC) ‘does not have a full and proper understanding of the full objectively assessed need of the Housing Market Area’. Concern was raised by Mayfield about HDC’s ‘compliance with the legal test for the Duty to Co-operate’. The report states: ‘There is no publicly available evidence base which shows how meaningful engagement has taken place with neighbouring authorities in a continuous fashion prior to submission of the report.’ In addition, Mayfield raises issues with HDC, claiming it has ‘failed to calculate housing requirements’, ‘failed to allocate sufficient housing land’, ‘failed to allocate sufficient employment land’ and ‘absence of an effective Environmental Capacity Assessment’.
Update: the West Sussex County Times also has a report [PDF].
Update 27th July: LAMBS now has a post up on their website. Their main illustration is a Mayfield sewage map [PDF].