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LAMBS Public Meeting

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St Paul's Catholic College, Burgess Hill
Friday, 20th June at 7.30pm, at St Paul’s Catholic College, Jane Murray Way, Burgess Hill. Plenty of car parking in the College and across the road in The Triangle Sports Centre. Speakers Nick Herbert, Nicholas Soames and Anthony Watts Williams. Representatives from both Horsham and Mid Sussex Councils’ Planning Authorities will be available to answer questions. Poster and flyer available here (PDF).

Update: the West Sussex County Times is planning to take some photos to accompany their Mayfield stories. LAMBs would welcome your attendance at this event. Turn up at ‘Nightingales’ in Bob Lane, Twineham (just East of The Old Cheese Factory) at 3:45pm on Friday 13th June, map here. The backdrop for the photo is a beautiful vista from the Northern tip of Mayfields’ proposed ‘Option 1’ site, with the Downs in the background. The photos will take no longer than 15 minutes, starting at 4:00pm. Bring the family.

Another update (11th June): LAMBS is hoping to get some placards advertising the public meeting out onto the verges by this weekend but is running out of time. Are you able to make some signs? They need to say something along the lines of: No New Town Here, Public Meeting at St Paul’s, Burgess Hill, 20th June at 7.30pm. If you can help, please call 07789 841888.

Yet another update (20th June): the list of speakers.

LAMBS meeting speaker list

Ealthy Eating Evening

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Pizza and Pop
As part of Children’s Hospice Week, the Steyning Friends of Chestnut Tree House are holding a pizza and pop event on Sunday, June 22nd, at Steyning Cricket Club from 5:00pm until 10:00pm. There will be home-made, wood-fired pizzas served up with live music, games, pottery painting, face painting and a raffle. Tickets are £3 and under 16s go free. They are available from The Steyning Bookshop, or on 01903 812062.

Update 9th July: the Shoreham Herald reports that the event raised £800.

St Andrew’s Church Edburton PCC – EGM

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St Andrews Church - Edburton

St Andrews Church – Edburton

St Andrews’s Church Edburton PCC invite you to join us for an Extraordinary General Meeting to elect a new Church Warden to fill the current vacancy.

Sunday 6th July at St Andrew’s Church – 12.15 approx.

Everyone welcome.

All parishioners and those on the electoral roll are entitled to vote.

The Queen’s Speech

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Running to keep in the same place

Governance of National Parks Draft Bill

The purpose of the Bill is to enable the composition of National Parks’ authorities to be broadened in the future. The main purpose of the draft Bill would be to provide for the holding of local elections to the authorities.

1 Direct elections

Enable eligible residents of the National Parks to directly elect some of the Authority members responsible for running their Park and taking planning decisions.

2 Amending the political balance requirement on local authority appointees

Allow local authorities to depart from the political balance rule if they appoint three or more members to the Park Authority where doing so would allow them to appoint a representative of a ward within the Park.

3 Allowing a wider range of parish representation

Allow parish councils to select their representatives to a Park Authority more widely. Currently they must select a parish councillor or chairman. They would be enabled to include anyone eligible to stand as a parish councillor.