Reconfiguration ~ Transfiguration

Pyecombe Church
Work has started on the new loo and kitchen at Pyecombe Church. The Reverend Caroline Currer comments:

The church is the only public meeting place available in the village, and is used for meetings and events such as parish council meetings. We believe the extension and its facilities will encourage the start-up of smaller local, social groups such as coffee mornings and informal meetings. In addition, the toilet facilities will encourage greater links with the many hundreds of charities and groups who organise sponsored walks, bike rides and the challenges along the South Downs Way.

Landfill Communities

A landfill community
The South Downs National Park Authority reports:

The Veolia Environmental Trust have awarded a grant of £40,000 through the Landfill Communities Fund which is helping to improving the chalk grassland near Saddlescombe Farm, Brighton, where rare and threatened butterfly species such as the Small Blue, Chalkhill Blue and the Brown Argus can still be found. The funding means that newly improved chalk grassland on the edge of Waterhall Golf Course will join up with chalk grassland already managed by Brighton and Hove City Council — increasing the area that the butterflies can call home by 50 per cent.

Small but perfectly formed

Small but Perfectly Formed An Introduction to the Small Mammals of Sussex

An Introduction to the Small Mammals of Sussex

Tutor: Laurie Jackson
Venue: Woods Mill
Date: Friday 11th April
Time: 10:00 — 16:00

This course looks at identifying small mammals and their field signs, conservation status, introduction to ecology (distribution, habitat requirements), survey and monitoring.

** Booking and detailed course information sheet **

Highways A23gency

Highways A23gency
Drainage works at Randolph’s Copse:

Work is currently programmed from 10 March until the end of May. The works are located on the A23 between its junctions with Patcham Interchange and the B2117 to the north of Brighton.

Lighting relocation, Hickstead–Bolney–Pease Pottage

The work will all be carried out overnight and involve carriageway and lane closures. It is expected to be completed on the morning of Thursday 17 April.

These works are additional to the “major improvements” to the A23 that local readers will already be very familiar with.