Parish Council Meeting Dates 2023
Minutes, Agenda & Cllr. updates for HD PC meeting 6th December 2022
Notifications to be discussed at 6th December 2022 HD PC meeting
WD/2022/2825/F – CHESTNUTS, WILDERNESS LANE, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4HT
Description: ERECTION OF AN OAK FRAME CAR PORT TO SOUTH SIDE OF PROPERTY AND AN OAK FRAME PORCH TO THE FRONT ENTRANCE; SINGLE-STOREY REAR SIDE EXTENSIONS ON BOTH SIDES WITH VERANDA INFILL BETWEEN; ASSOCIATED INTERNAL ALTERATIONS
Link to documents: https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/disclaimer.aspx?returnURL=%2fplandisp.aspx%3frecno%3d159875
FUNDING NEEDED FOR VILLAGE SPEED CONTROL
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Village Speeding – Your chance to help
As vehicles enter the village on the A272 from the Buxted direction, the speed limit changes straight from 60mph to 30mph, and this results in a very high proportion of these vehicles passing the four public crossing points between the 30mph sign, at the entrance to Waste Wood, and the School Lane/Wilderness Lane crossroads often at speeds exceeding 50mph.
These four pedestrian crossing points are used by the pupils of St Mark’s School to access the designated learning play area “Smile Meadow”; by our senior school children crossing to use their school buses morning and afternoon, and by the many residents that use Waste Wood for general recreation.
It has been noted that the existing speed detection device does encourage vehicles to slow down but to have a similar impact in the vicinity of where these four crossings are then the village needs another speed detector mounting post in the vicinity of the Church.
The Parish Council has obtained ESCC Highways permission for an additional post to be installed but the Parish Council only has sufficient funding to cover 50% of the £2,000 cost.
This is your chance to help reduce speeding throughout the village. This appeal is asking both parents and residents to support this project by helping to fund the additional £1,000 required to have this speed detector pole installed. Should we be successful in raising sufficient extra funds then the village could even purchase an additional speed detector device!
Such “Crowd Funding” cannot be administered by the Parish Council, so I have agreed to manage this appeal as a long-time resident of the village. St Mark’s School parents may wish to act together, through the School Office, to provide a donation.
To ensure accurate auditable payment records to be kept, it is only possible to accept cheques made out to Mr S L W Godfrey and posted through the letter box of Fir Tree Cottage (top of School Lane) or Bank Transfers to Sort Code 40-47-86, Account No. 80791415. Please use your “Surname – Speed”as your Reference. Full records of payments will be kept and be available on request from myself.
Thank you for taking the time to read this appeal and thank you in advance for any payments that you generously offer.
Steve.Godfrey@live.co.uk
01825-830670
27 years a resident in Hadlow Down
Hadlow Down Book Club Review – December
Grief “like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody can see you”.
The book group has followed the Lucy Barton novels by Elizabeth Strout so we were interested to read the third in the Amgash series Oh William! (2022) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize this year. Amgash was of course the remote settlement where Lucy grew up in abject poverty and in an abusive home before marrying William, moving to New York and becoming a successful novelist. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – December”
LIVE Music at the New Inn 3rd December
SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER 8PM
A date for your diaries, live at The New Inn MIDNIGHT CANONBALL
come and have a listen, have an excellent beer and maybe a jig around to set you up for the festive season, come and let your hair down and forget all the doom and gloom……hope to see you all there……
Services at St Mark’s during December:
Services at St Mark’s during December:
Sunday 4th December 9.00 am – All-Age Service
Sunday 11th December 9.00 am – Parish Communion
Sunday 18th December 9.00 am – Parish Communion
Saturday 24th December 5.30 pm – Crib Service
Sunday 25th December 9.00 am – Christmas Day Service
There are other Christmas services at St Margaret’s and St Mary’s in the Parish but I need to find out from the Rector what the timings are because this hasn’t been decided yet. I’ll let you know soon.
ST MARK’S CHURCH NEWS – December 2022
I’m writing this in early November, and I feel that Christmas is almost upon us. That time of fun, families, and conspicuous consumption, although the latter might be a little more restrained this year!
A good number of shops and garden centres started decorating in September, which I think is a bit premature; tv channels are already wallowing in Christmas-themed films about good-will to all men; always with a happy ending, and hey, Strictly Come Dancing is on again – a sure sign that Christmas is around the corner. Continue reading “ST MARK’S CHURCH NEWS – December 2022”
Christmas Rubbish Collections
Wealden D. C. are not sending out Waste and Recycling Collection Calendars to residents this year and we will not be producing bin hangers with the Christmas Collection Dates on.