Hassocks Station plaque
Fulking residents will remember Gina Field as one our MSDC Councillors, when she came to Fulking PC meetings. By 2003, Gina had taken a back seat at the PR business she founded (Field McNally Leathes PR) — still based in Hurstpierpoint.
One of her key local campaigns was to persuade the train companies to retain frequent services through Hassocks Station, and also to improve the indifferent 1970s station building. She always saw Hassocks as a vital stop on the London to Brighton line, and a gateway station for the forthcoming South Downs National Park.
Hassocks Station was rebuilt and opened in July 2013. The improved underpass opened a few weeks ago, and it allows disabled people to use lifts to traverse the station, whether they are rail travellers or not.
This plaque is now at the main entrance to the station.
Richard Corner
Horsdean traveller site gets ministerial approval
The Argus reports:
The Department for Communities and Local Government have confirmed that they will not be calling in a planning application for 12 permanent residential traveller pitches at Horsdean .. the Secretary of State confirmed the site will be given the go-ahead following his scrutiny. Brighton & Hove City Council will now be able to go ahead with their plans to create the site, which extends and improves an existing traveller transit site just to the east of Patcham on the north side of the A27.
Earlier coverage here.
Dyke Farm House open garden
Sunday 29th June, 2:00pm–5:00pm visitors are welcome to bring a picnic. Tea & cakes. Donations on the gate in aid of the Martlets Hospice. Parking at Manor Farm will be signposted, a 5 minute walk from the garden.
In A Gadda Da Vida
Shoreham Cement Works may yet become the Garden of Eden. Upper Beeding Parish Council is planning an open day with a bus trip and guided tour for August to give local people the chance to find out more. Parish Council Chairman Simon Birnstingl asks “The Eden Project was made on a similar site, could we do something similar?”. Read more at the Shoreham Herald.