The show will be held on Saturday August 17th 2013 in the Mackley Sports Field. The show is open from 1.30pm, entry to the marquee commences at 2pm and the show will close at 5pm. There will be stalls from local charities and societies, childrens’ amusements, music from the Patcham Silver Band and refreshments. The marquee will hold the displays of local produce, handicrafts, photography and cooking that will be judged as part of the show’s events.
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Back to the spring
9:20am: It looks as if Fulking has lost mains water again.
9:40am: Restored.
Village Action Plan Group meeting
The Village Action Plan Group will have its annual meeting on Thursday 15th August.
As the Plan is a living document, various actions are achieved throughout the year or are superseded by other developments and this meeting will review any progress and agree any new actions.
Please feel free to attend even if you haven’t been before.
The current plan can be found here on the village website in the section ‘About our Village’ or click here.
Kate Watson
Chair
Fulking Parish Council
More news from Fernhurst
“This is, I surmise, the biggest decision yet to be faced by the SDNPA and especially its planning committee. It is one they fail at their peril and at the peril longer term, of all life in the South Downs National Park – fauna and flora, visitors and residents, both animal and human.” [Norman Hodgson]
Happy Jack
Your Voice – Your National Park
We are in the exciting final stages of creating a Partnership Management Plan for the South Downs, setting out the priorities for everyone who lives in, works in, and visits the National Park. This is an important strategic document containing policies to ensure that iconic landscapes and wildlife are enjoyed, valued and cared for, and that communities and the local economy thrive.
Many of you may already have been involved with helping us shape the Partnership Management Plan, either through surveys, workshops, sending us a ‘Postcard for the Future’, contributing to the on-line forum or talking to us at shows and events.
For others it may be the first time you are reading this material, and this will be a chance to see if you agree with the work that has gone before.
The final draft of the South Downs National Park Partnership Management Plan is now available for consultation and we are seeking your views on this document.
The public consultation, ‘Your Voice, Your National Park’ will run until 16 September 2013.
This is your chance to let us know if you think the Partnership Management Plan will take the National Park in the right direction, and also to tell us how you might be part of this journey.
To take a look at the plan, and give us your views please go to www.southdowns.gov.uk/managementplan
We are encouraging people to respond electronically if at all possible to save paper, but if you prefer to receive a copy of the Management Plan and survey by post, email your name and postal address to managementplan@southdowns.gov.uk or write to us at :-
Management Plan Consultation,
SDNPA,
Hatton House,
Bepton Road,
Midhurst,
West Sussex,
GU29 9LU
Men behaving oddly
Last night at around 3:00am, a car alarm was activated in The Street. When it was investigated, two or three men were seen hanging around by another parked car. The owner of this latter car went outside to check and the men disappeared. The police were called, but they were unable to find anything, although their tracker dog did trace a scent on to the bridleway at the rear of The Street.
Note also that the number plates were stolen from a car parked overnight at the Shepherd and Dog about ten days ago.
If you see or hear anything suspicious, please report it –- the non-emergency number is 101.
Operation Crackdown
You will now find it easier to report incidents of anti-social driving in Sussex. Sussex Police has re-launched Operation Crackdown – a system that enables anyone to report anti-social driving and abandoned vehicles, either online or by phone
Anti-social driving can be driving that is careless, deliberately aggressive or dangerous. If you see this type of behaviour it is important that you report it, so it can be dealt with in the most appropriate way.
Operation Crackdown is a joint initiative supported by Sussex Safer Roads Partnership (SSRP), Sussex Police and all local authorities in the county. It was first launched in 2002 as a way of reporting abandoned vehicles in Sussex, and was expanded in 2007 to cover anti-social driving reports.
The system for reporting anti-social driving has now been made simpler, to encourage members of the public to easily and quickly report this type of incident and users can now keep track of the progress of their case with a specific reference number provided.
Incidents can be reported, either via www.operationcrackdown.org, or by calling 01243 64 22 22, for those who don’t have access to the internet.
Members of the public who are reporting incidents must remember, where possible, the registration number of the vehicle, the make, model and the colour, so the police can identify the vehicle concerned and make contact with the offender.
Every report received through Operation Crackdown is viewed and a decision is made against a set criteria on how best to deal with it. In the majority of cases a letter of advice is sent to the driver or rider, but a report to Operation Crackdown can also lead to arrest and possible conviction, depending on the seriousness of the offence.
Jim Stobart
Road Safety/ASD Co-ordinator
Operation Crackdown
Road Policing Unit | Operations Department
Tel 01273 404571 Ext. 44053
Community Bus Service
Fulking Parish Council along with Poynings, Newtimber, Hurstpierpoint, Keymer, Clayton and Pyecombe Parish Councils were the original supporters of starting up a community led bus service linking those parishes with Hassocks some twenty years ago.
The bus services commenced on the 17th January 1993. Each parish paid a nominal £1 to become members which allowed us to provide a bus service to the parishes. It also entitled the residents and not-for-profit organisations within the parishes to hire the community bus whenever it wasn’t being used on the bus services.
The bus services that we provide are available to any member of the public and we accept all English disabled and pensioner bus passes.
However the service we provide is loss making but nevertheless considered by those who use it as an essential service. It has this problem in common with many rural bus services. The volunteers that provide the service do so without any form of payment whatsoever. As we are a charitable organisation we cannot make a profit. Most of our income is generated by private hires enabling us to plough this back into the organisation and thus continue to provide a bus service to rural communities.
Peter Gibbons
Driver Assessor Trainer/Driver Recruitment
Hassocks Parish Council