Tricia Robinson with staff and villagers at the Shepherd and Dog with HART volunteers
Read the rest of the story at The Argus.
Fulking was featured in The Argus last night.
Every Tuesday The Argus runs a feature called “In Your Street”. It’s a look at the history and current set-up of streets and villages in Sussex.
So reporter Ben Leo visited our village last week and met up with some local residents including Jenny Tooley and Bob Rowland.
We reproduce Ben’s feature here with kind permission. Click the thumbnail on the right for the full version.
For further details see The Fulking Winter Management Plan here
or for general winter advice visit the Met Office site here
The annual external audit of Fulking Parish Council accounts for year ending 31st March 2012 has now been completed.
The annual return is available for inspection. It can be downloaded from the website here or you can request a paper copy from Andrea Dickson, Clerk to Fulking Parish Council on 01444 451060 (cost £1.50)
Hurstpierpoint Library
If you have some spare time and are interested, they will be recruiting from Wednesday 12th September and the contact person is Carol Tester 01444 235549
Fulking Parish Council will hold an Extraordinary Planning Meeting
ON
Tuesday 28th August 2012 at 6.30pm
In the Village Hall
TO CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING PLANNING APPLICATION:-
SDNP/12/01455/HOUS
Broadreeds The Street Fulking Brighton West Sussex BN5 9LU
Demolition of existing garden building/garage and construction of holiday annexe
Plans available for viewing on the South Downs National Park Website.
Members of the Public and Press are invited to attend.
Members of the public are entitled to speak at the meeting for two minutes, by prior appointment with the Clerk (Mrs Andrea Dickson, tel 01444 451060 at least 1 hour before the meeting)
No more than two speakers for each application and two against.
Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
12 Turners Mill Road
Haywards Heath
West Sussex
RH16 1NN
andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com
Future Parish Council meetings will be held at 7.30pm in the Village Hall on the following dates:
Thursday October 11th 2012
Thursday January 10th 2013
Planning meetings are provisionally planned for the first, third and fifth (where available) Wednesday of each month at 6.30pm in the Village Hall.
If planning applications are received and a meeting is required, details of the meeting will be published on the notice board outside the Village Hall and on the website.
As the start time may be subject to change, please check each meeting.
If anyone would like to speak for or against a planning application, he/she should notify the Clerk at least one hour before the published start time of the meeting.
If you are planning a party, the village has some items for hire!
If you would like to hire anything please call Carolyn on 280. All proceeds to Fulking Social Fund.
Many thanks!
Carolyn Loveless
After a month or two of hard work, I am pleased to announce the new Fulking Village website is now live.
As reported by Aidan in the June PP, I have taken over from James Lightfoot after his three year stint. I am sure all in the village would like to thank James for his great efforts over that time.
You may have noticed that the old site has not been updated as efficiently as James did it since I have taken it over. This is because I wanted to get the website in a form I could easily maintain. So I have completely reworked the layout of the site and brought most of the old content across to the new site. I have also added a new and improved interactive village diary.
I have decided to follow the Poynings website naming convention – so our new site is now to be found on https://fulking.net. The old domain name “fulkingvillage.co.uk” will also bring you to the new website for the foreseeable future but why not change your browser shortcuts now. I have introduced the new name as we are not really a UK company and the “.net” ending suggests a network of friends and neighbours. And its 9 characters shorter too – less typing!
We will be publishing a series of local history articles over the coming months. The first two are already on the site. So keep your eyes peeled for the new ones to appear.
Finally if anyone has any ideas for a new page or topical news story, spots an error, typo or inaccuracies etc, please get in touch by email on webmaster@fulking.net or give me a call on 957. The website belongs to all of us!
John Hazard
People should be wary of buying goods from cold callers after dozens of reports of suspicious sellers in villages across Sussex.
Residents have been calling police and Trading Standards about vans turning up in streets and opening their doors to illegally sell chainsaws and televisions amongst other items.
There have been reports of people have paying a high price for the items to find they are cheap and of poor quality.
Sgt Chris O’Leary said: “We have had reports of illegal selling of chainsaws and gardening equipment in numerous locations including Horsham, Littlehampton, Worthing, Uckfield, Hastings, Lewes, Mid Sussex and Rye in recent weeks.
“As a police service we need to reduce the risk to people and warn them to be wary of buying from cold callers. If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. However, at this time, we have not linked the goods to any theft offences.”
Louise Baxter, Trading Standards Team Manager at East Sussex County Council, added: “With the recent warmer weather we’ve seen a rise in incidents of cold calling and illegal sales across East Sussex. We are very concerned, especially when older or vulnerable people in our communities are targeted and we would advise people to avoid the cold callers and only use reputable traders.”
East Sussex County Council has the following advice for people:
East Sussex County Council Trading Standards has a good trader scheme ‘Buy With Confidence’. The list contains a diverse range of businesses including builders, plumbers and gardeners. In East Sussex, to find an Approved Trader please call 01323 463440 (Option 1) or visit http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/buywithconfidence.
West Sussex County Council also has advice about cold callers on their website at http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/living/consumer_advice/consumer_issues/no_cold-calling_at_my_home.aspx along with information about their ‘Buy With Confidence’ scheme.
For consumer advice on trading standards issues, contact the Citizens Advice Consumer Services line on 08454 040506.
John Wright
Chairman
Sussex Neighbourhood Watch Federation.