The Shoreham Herald reports that the John Horler Trio will be performing at Steyning Centre tomorrow evening at 8:30 (doors open 7:45).
Latest News of Local Interest
Under-age moto-cross
The Shoreham Herald reports:
Dan Beamish, who co-runs Golding Barn Raceway in Small Dole, visited key stage one children at Upper Beeding Primary School to talk about the extreme sport .. He took along a moto-cross bike, which is used in races, together with the equipment worn while racing. ..
Golding Barn Raceway is a professional moto-cross practice and race facility in Henfield Road. It was built by Danny and Steve Beamish, an ex professional moto-cross racer.
Beginning Nature Photography
Tutor: David Plummer
Venue: Woods Mill
Date: Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th April
Time: 10:00 – 16:00 both days
A two day course for beginners with digital SLR cameras only. Day 1: Camera basics, manual control, manual metering, aperture priority and depth of field control. Day 2: advanced metering, composition, making a good shot better, fieldwork and supports, focussing and where it goes wrong, putting it all together.
Cross the A283 and live! [update 2]
The Shoreham Herald reports that WSCC Rights of Way Committee has now agreed to the new bridleway that will allow users of the Downs Link to avoid having to cross the A283:
It will run close to the River Adur, passing under the A283 road bridge, through a field, across a ditch and through a wooded highway verge to rejoin the Downs Link at its existing crossing point. It adds 970m to the length of the route.
Measure twice, cut once
Steyning Grammar will be celebrating 400 years of existence in May with a variety of events including:
- 24th May: the opening of the Church Street School and grounds to the public with archive material relating to the school’s history on display;
- 24th-25th May: three performances each day of ‘Carvings, Corridors and Timbres’, a musical about the school, at the Church Street site;
- 26th–28th May: a heritage quilt will be on display in the Church of St Andrew and St Cuthman;
- 29th May: Janet Pennington will give a talk on ‘Steyning Grammar School, 400 Years of Education’ at 2:00pm in Bolton House;
- 7th March–31st August 2014: an exhibition titled ‘The Scholar’s Tale — 400 Years of Schooling in Steyning’ at Steyning Museum.
Further details about these and other events can be found here.
Mid Sussex Police – January 2014 Newsletter
Mid Sussex District Monthly Update – January 2014
You can read the January 2014 newsletter from Chief Inspector Simon Beardwell, Mid Sussex District Commander, West Sussex Division by clicking here (PDF).
A penny for your thoughts
You have until the end of April to express your views on the Community Infrastructure Levy – Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule and to participate in the Local Plan Options Consultation.
The wrong kind of snow
The Worthing Herald reports:
Despite £800,000 being spent fixing the drainage on the A27, the busy trunk-road is still vulnerable to flooding with fed-up motorists facing yet more delays last week.
After months of disruption and lane closures in 2012, the dual carriageway still could not cope with the volume of water coming off the South Downs this winter.
But the Highways Agency denies that its drainage work has failed, arguing that it was never meant to deal with this kind of flooding.
Iconic views
The Sussex Express reports the Director of Planning for the South Downs National Park, Tim Slaney, as saying:
The Rampion wind farm proposals would harm the landscape and cultural heritage of the South Downs National Park introducing 175 turbines into the iconic views from the Sussex Heritage Coast and cause large scale disruption to the landscape of the National Park through the construction of a 14km long and 30m wide cable corridor.
The South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA), which attended 11 days of public examination and submitted in excess of 270 pages of evidence, recommended that the Secretary of State should refuse to grant permission to ensure that the landscape and cultural heritage of the National Park is conserved.
Wealden wins
The Sussex Express reports:
A consortium of landowners have failed in a High Court bid to tear up Wealden District Council’s housing plans for the next 16 years and force it to go back to the drawing board.
One of the country’s top judges dismissed the challenge brought by the group, known as Ashdown Forest Economic Development LLP, to the Council’s Core Strategy Local Plan (CSLP.)
The group claimed the Council, the South Downs National Park Authority and a Government planning inspector who had cleared it to be adopted had been too cautious and protective of the environment and nearby Ashdown Forest. However, Mr Justice Sales today rejected all of the group’s grounds of complaint.
More details at the link.