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Notifications to be discussed at 9th January 2024 HD PC meeting

WD/2023/2995/F for HASTINGFORD OAST FARM, HASTINGFORD LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4DY
Extension to the dwelling and erection of ancillary outbuilding.
Link to documents: Planning and Building Control – Wealden District Council

WD/2023/2759/FR for LITTLE BROADREED FARM, DOG KENNEL LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4EL
Replacement of aged loose boxes and stables with modern equivalents; increase in the height and shape of a roof over an existing building together with retrospective change of use for private equestrian purposes; the provision of two storage sheds within the residential curtilage.
Link to documents: Planning and Building Control – Wealden District Council

 

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Hadlow Down Book Club Review – December.

We have been reading ‘Small Things Like These’ by Claire Keegan (2021), a novella shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. It is set in a small Irish town in the run-up to Christmas 1985, and is about the moral dilemma of Bill Furlong, a coal merchant. He is married with five daughters who are doing well and give him much joy and pride. He is the illegitimate son of a 16 year- old housemaid who was protected by her well-to-do Protestant employer who also acted as a patron to Bill. He is aware of his good fortune and tries to emulate her kindness to him by acts of kindness to others. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – December.”