The community website of the village of Fulking, West Sussex
On Saturday 27th September, we will celebrate 200 years of the modern railway.
Pop into the ticket office between 9:30am and 5:00pm where Hassocks Rail Group will have:
Historic exhibition: discover the station’s history through photographs
Model railway: miniature trains with sounds
Railway memories: sharing your stories
Kid’s corner: stickers and colouring books
We’ll also have keepsake cards produced by a local artist to take away
For further information click here
Quotations Group
This group continues to meet in the village hall at 11am on Mondays. It is a friendly group of villagers who have become good friends. Each meeting has a catalyst of a word chosen by popular demand around which the meeting is based. Attendances are rarely more than ten which we have found is an ideal number for a discussion. We seem to be mostly female but welcome anyone. Discussions are friendly and cover any subject that those present care to bring up. It would be of great value if more and similar groups could meet up and possibly discuss local ideas and problems as well as international matters.
Old Friends
Just bumped into Harry Diamond in a restaurant. He was looking very fit and it reminded me of an occasion probably twenty years ago or more: I was then Chair of the Parish Council and Harry and I met the Chair of Mid Sussex District Council (MSDC) in the field next to Harry’s house whish was too large for just he and Charmaine to live in. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the possibility of Harry transferring the whole of his bottom field to the Parish Council, completely free with no charges whatsoever so that that a new village hall with adjacent parking might be built. In exchange for this very generous and highly practical offer Harry was to get planning permission to build a smaller house than his own in the adjacent field. The MSDC Chair immediately dismissed the offer saying ‘we don’t do deals at MSDC’. So that is why a considerable amount of money is being raised to acquire the current village hall.
The fund raising appears to be on target for the acquisition of the Village Hall from the Church.
It would be good to know that plans are in place for the really necessary repair and maintenance work that is going to need to be funded.
Because I am aged and disabled I am particularly concerned about the highly dangerous steps and entrance door opening out onto those steps. Wheelchair access is impossible which excludes anyone with that need from attending the hall. In order to update this entrance from the entrance gate to the front door must cost several thousand pounds and I hope this has been budgeted for in future costings.
In setting out the foregoing I am only expressing concern that the enthusiasm for acquiring the hall has not obscured the serious costs that are going to be needed to improve and indeed maintain the hall, if it is going to continue to be the asset it has been in the past.
Having just spent nearly a fortnight in the Cardiac ward
of the Royal Sussex County Hospital followed by a further two weeks
in the Furzefield Manor care home at Sayers Common I have
to comment on the quite extraordinary level of kindness given
by the nursing staff at both NHS and private establishments.
At both of these I received a level of care I did not expect and
find it making me very proud of the wonderful way patients such
as myself are treated in Britain.
Councillors are summoned to an Extraordinary Meeting on Monday 21st July 2025 at 6.30pm. This will be a virtual meeting via Microsoft TEAMS. Any member of the public wishing to take part should email parishclerk@fulking.net for an invite to the meeting.
Mark Hind – Chairman
Following the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, and regarding regulations on Access to Local Government Meetings, members of the public are advised that they have a right to film/record the meetings of Fulking Parish Council. Members of the public are also advised that by attending a meeting of Fulking Parish Council, they give their consent to being filmed/recorded by other members of the public, if such activity is taking place.
AGENDA
Public Participation: There will be a period of 15 minutes set aside at the beginning of the meeting for the public to ask questions or make comments on items on the Agenda. Comments on items not appearing on the agenda can be made at the chairman’s discretion.
25/047/PM. Apologies for Absence.
25/048/PM. Declaration of Members’ Interests.
25/049/PM Playground Inspections
25/050/PM. Planning matters – SDNP/25/02836
Proposal: Creation of new access from Clappers Lane to maintain the field and support livestock
Location: Land to The rear of, Pippins, Poynings Road, Fulking, West Sussex,
Grid Ref: Eastings: 524966, Northings: 111631
Next Scheduled Meeting: Ordinary Council Meeting on Thursday 9th October 2025