Resurfacing the coastal car park

Coastal car park resurfacing
The Shoreham Herald reports:

From 8:00pm tonight until 6:00am tomorrow, road users travelling eastbound on the A27 wishing to join the A23 northbound and southbound will be directed to remain on the A27 to Hollingbury Interchange (Carden Avenue) and return westbound.

From tomorrow for four nights, between 8:00pm and 6:00am, road users travelling westbound on the A27 will be diverted on to the A283 southbound at Adur Interchange, then, via Old Shoreham Road, on to the A259 Brighton Road, Shoreham, and Grinstead Lane, Lancing, before rejoining the A27 at Manor Road Roundabout.

Full story here.

Steyning Festival feedback

The Sixteen at Steyning Festival 2014
If you attended any of the events earlier this summer, then the organizers are keen to hear from you. Email your comments or suggestions to admin@steyningfestival.co.uk. They want to know what events you attended, which you enjoyed, which you didn’t enjoy and why, your thoughts on the ticket pricing, your thoughts on the printed programme and the website, and what you thought about the communications and marketing in general. Finally, they are interested to know what direction you think the Festival should take in the future.

If you prefer to just tell people your age, sex and ethnic group and strongly dis/agree about things, then they have a questionnaire [DOC] that should meet your needs.

Fewer complaints

Shortlisted for planning excellence in 2014
The Midhurst and Petworth Observer notes a report to the SDNPA from its director of planning, Tim Slaney:

[The] report showed that a total of 19 complaints were received in the year to March 31, 2014 compared with 32 the previous year when the new planning administration system was introduced and “numbers are considered to be relatively low”. .. A total of 2,366 planning applications were decided 
across the park last year by the authority’s own planning committee and all the planning authorities inside its boundaries. .. Almost 80 per cent of the total were decided in the allotted timescale of eight, 13 or 16 weeks and, said Mr Slaney: “This is considered to be a generally good overall level of performance.”

New bus service

A section of the Southern Transit bus route
Southern Transit, a company based at the Upper Beeding butterfly sanctuary, is introducing a new bus service between Shoreham and Horsham that will run every weekend over the period 26th July to 7th September this year. There’s a stop in Small Dole, buses run every couple of hours, and the usual fare concessions apply. Click the map above to download a timetable [PDF].

Update: The Argus reports here.

WSCC dating website

WSCC dating website

West Sussex County Council runs a dating website, love.westsussex.gov.uk which enables members of the public to meet, and perhaps even marry, council employees. Council employees have secure employment, reasonable salaries, comfortable pensions and better than average looks which makes them a sensible choice in the mating market.

Er, no, not exactly. At least one of those claims is as misleading as the name of the website. The purpose of the latter is altogether more prosaic. But useful, nonetheless. Check our new reference page, ‘Potholes, etc.‘, under the ‘The Environment’ menu near the bottom of the left sidebar.