Latest News of Local Interest
Farm conversion
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.
Remembrance Sunday
To the Glory of God and in memory of the men of this parish who laid down their lives in the great war: James Baker, Samuel Baker, Charles E. Sheppard, William Baker, Charles Baldey, Arthur W. Brown, James E. Lucas, Elias Luff, Richard Wearn.
Risk area for flooding
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.
Allow another 30 minutes?
The West Sussex County Times advises that the northbound A23 between Bolney and Pease Pottage will be closed tonight (Friday) between 9:00pm and 6:00am: “Road users will be directed to follow a fully signed diversion route via the A264, A24 and A272”.
Pushing bikes
Habitat Management for Invertebrates
A Sussex Wildlife Trust course at Woods Mill taught by Graeme Lyons. How to plan and manage the best habitats for invertebrates – the building blocks for a properly functioning ecosystem. Saturday 7th December, 10:00 – 16:00, members £27.50, non-members £38. Click here to book.