January Book Club Review

 

This month we have been reading Anne Tyler’s ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’, one of the shorter and more bittersweet of her novels but, nevertheless, quietly profound and longlisted for the Booker Prize.

It is about Micah Mortimer:- a man in his 40s, the youngest of a chaotic family of sisters; the only one to go to university and then have a professional job, but who opted out of corporate life and now scrapes a living running a one-man computer repair business and caretaking his block of flats, giving him free accommodation. His family regard him with affectionate bewilderment.
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St Mark’s Church News for February 2021.

St Mark’s church news for February 2021.

I suppose this should begin with ‘A Happy New Year to all our readers’!  I think we have all been saying ‘Well it couldn’t be worse!’

As I write, 3 of the new vaccines have been approved for use in the UK, and the Buxted surgery has just started calling the over 70s for vaccination.  Let us pray this will indeed be the beginning of a Happy New Year for us all.  So sadly we are presently in the process of a 3rd lockdown, and that has meant some big decisions needing to be made for our Parish of Buxted and Hadlow Down.

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Notifications in December to be discussed at 12th January HDPC meeting

WD/2020/2346/FA – CROUST BARNS, HADLOW DOWN ROAD, FIVE ASHES, TN20 6JH
Description: MINOR MATERIAL AMENDMENT TO WD/2014/2537/F (CHANGE OF USE AND CONVERSION OF REDUNDANT AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS TO FORM A SINGLE DWELLINGHOUSE, ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL NEW BUILDING WORKS LINKING THE TWO BARNS) INVOLVING VARIATION OF CONDITION 10 TO ENABLE MINOR DESIGN CHANGES.

Link to documents on web:  http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=151872

WD/2020/2451/F – LAND ADJACENT TO THE OAKS, SCHOOL LANE, HADLOW DOWN TN22 4JE

Descripoin: DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MILKING PARLOUR AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING FOLLOWING APPROVAL OF COUNCIL REF:
WD/2019/1629/F, ACCESS, LANDSCAPING AND OTHER ASSOCIATED
INFRASTRUCTURE.

Link to documents on web: http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152021