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Talk With Us

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South Mid Sussex County Local Committee
Albourne, Burgess Hill, Bolney, Fulking, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint &
Sayers Common, Newtimber, Poynings, Pyecombe, Slaugham & Twineham

MEET YOUR LOCAL COUNTY COUNCILLORS

SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONCERNS ON LOCAL ISSUES

Tuesday 26 November 2013 at7.00pm
Schering Suite, Downlands Community School, Dale Avenue, Hassocks, BN6 8LP

Peter Griffiths

Peter Griffiths

Anne Jones

Anne Jones

Andrew Barrett-Miles

Andrew Barrett-Miles

Andy Petch

Andy Petch

West-Sussex-Logo-238x152For further information and an agenda please contact:
T: 0330 22 22527
E: talkwithus@westsussex.gov.uk

The Mayfield Horror

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The Mayfield Horror starring Matthew Taylor
The first public screening on Tuesday proved to be a sell-out: “so many turned up at Oaklands, Haywards Heath, .. that some had to be seated in an overspill room .. and listen on a sound link” (Mid Sussex Times). BBC Radio Sussex coverage of the screening can be found here (top story — interviews with several of the stars) and here. Fans will have to wait a couple of weeks to find out whether this slasher — arguably the best since Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — is to be allowed out on general release.
GJMG

Update 16th November: The Mid Sussex Leader has published a review (PDF).

Farm conversion

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The conversion of Hazeley Farm into houses
The Hampshire Chronicle reports that the SDNPA has just approved the conversion of an entire farmyard into housing:

Eight barns will be turned into dwellings in Twyford, near Winchester, after applicant Hazeley Farm was granted planning permission by the South Downs National Park.

This is very similar, albeit on a slightly larger scale, to what Terry Willis did with the original Perching Manor farmyard twenty odd years ago.

Risk area for flooding

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The risk area for flooding in Edburton and Fulking
This post is not a flood alert! But you may have thought that river flooding is something that only happens elsewhere in the locality (e.g., along the banks of the Adur and its larger tributaries). The Environment Agency thinks otherwise and marks a strip of Fulking and Edburton that stretches north from Brook House, via Perching Sands, then west past Lower Edburton and Tottington Sands to Woods Mill. This strip is at significant risk of flooding where ‘significant’ means more than once every 75 years. The Agency’s map has been added to the end of the Local Geology page.