Poynings Parish Council has a vacancy for a Councillor and is looking to Co-Opt shortly.
If you wish to express an interest, please contact myself or a councillor ASAP.
Kind regards
Colin Warburton
Clerk to the Council
6 Poynings Road
Poynings
West Sussex
BN45 7AP
Tel: 01273 857024
clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.com
Jan 15
Vacancy for a Councillor
Jan 07
Poynings Christmas Tree
The village Christmas tree and its shining lights are staying on until February 2nd.
While it is customary for Christians in some countries to remove their Christmas decorations on Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve) those in other Christian countries historically remove them on Candlemas.
This year we are adopting the longer model to add cheer and comfort. Our Christmas tree will remain lit, shining in the darkness until Candlemas.
Jan 07
Parish Council – Community Covid19 Support
Given the current lockdown and our need to adhere to the government restrictions, at the recent PC meeting the councillors wanted to reassure the residents of Poynings that Poynings Parish Council is here to help. We’re a small community and we’ll all want to look after our neighbours, especially those who may be vulnerable – offers of help getting food / meds or even a “check-you’re OK” phone call. If you need help, or know someone who might, contact Colin (PC Clerk) by phone, text, email, or however, we will see if we can help, or find someone else who can, via the councillors or the volunteer group. Don’t forget the Facebook page at Poynings Community | Facebook There is also a good WhatsApp group, if you want to be added to this, just send Colin your name and telephone number.
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives
Poynings Parish Council – Paula, Mike, John, Neville and Colin
07941 460 582 – 01273 857 024 – clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.com
Dec 31
POYNINGS PARISH COUNCIL
PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
The next meeting of Poynings Parish Council to be held online using Zoom software on Wednesday 6thJanuary 2021 at 7pm.
Please contact the clerk for Login details.
Agenda
- Apologies for absence
- Volunteer to run the meeting in the absence of a chair
- Minutes
- Matters Arising
- MSDC and WSDC
- Public Participation
- Expenditure for Nov and Dec
- Planning applications
Southdown View The Street Poynings BN45 7AQ
Notification of intention to prune overall by 2m on 1 no. Beech tree.
SDNP/20/04601/TCA. Decision. - Co-opting new councillor.
- Zoom
- Roundabout finger post
- Budget 2021 – 2022
- Devils Dyke Sewage outlet
- Ash Dieback
- Speed indicator device
- Item’s for next month’s Agenda
- Dates of Next month’s Meeting
Mr Colin Warburton
Clerk to the Council
Hideaway Cottage
6 Poynings Road
Poynings
BN45 7AP
Tel: 01273 857024
clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.con
Dec 28
Real Christmas tree recycling points open from 30th December
Mid Sussex District Council has arranged for Christmas tree recycling points to be located across the district to help residents dispose of their real Christmas trees when the festive fun is over.
The Council has arranged for 24 temporary Christmas tree drop-off points in towns and villages across the district, so there will be a place nearby where residents can recycle their real Christmas tree. Residents can take along their tree to the most convenient local site, place it in the marked area and it will be taken away to be recycled locally.
Residents with a green garden waste wheelie bin can put their tree directly into it, as long as the lid can still close firmly. Alternatively, people can take their real tree along to one of the Household Waste Recycling Sites at Fairbridge Way in Burgess Hill or Imberhorne Lane in East Grinstead.
Sites will be open between 30 December 2020 and 8 January 2021 at the following locations.
Town / village |
Location |
Street / Road |
Ardingly |
Ardingly Recreation Ground |
High Street |
Ashurst Wood |
John Pears Field |
Wall Hill Road |
Albourne |
Village Hall |
The Street |
Bolney |
Recreation Ground Car Park |
The Street |
Bolnore |
Woodside Pavilion Car Park |
120 Middle Village |
Burgess Hill |
Cyprus Road Car Park |
Cyprus Road |
Burgess Hill |
Football Club |
Maple Drive |
Copthorne |
Humphreys Field |
Borers Arms Road |
Crawley Down |
Haven Sports Field |
Hophurst Lane |
Cuckfield |
Whitemans Green Recreation Ground |
Whitemans Green |
East Grinstead |
Imberhorne Lane Car Park |
Imberhorne Lane |
East Grinstead |
Chequer Mead Car Park |
De La Warr Road |
Handcross |
Recreation Ground Car Park |
High Street |
Hassocks |
Dale Avenue Car Park |
Dale Avenue |
Haywards Heath |
Beech Hurst Gardens Car Park |
Butlers Green Road |
Haywards Heath |
Heath Road Car Park |
Heath Road |
Horsted Keynes |
Recreation Ground Car Park |
Lewes Road |
Hurstpierpoint |
Trinity Road Car Park |
Trinity Road |
Lindfield |
Lindfield Common |
West Common |
Poynings |
Rushfield Plant Centre |
Henfield Road |
Sayers Common |
Berrylands Farm Recreation Ground |
Berrylands Farm |
Scaynes Hill |
Scaynes Hill Common Car Park |
Church Road |
Turners Hill |
Recreation Ground Car Park |
East Street |
West Hoathly |
Finches Field Car Park |
Church Hill |
Dec 22
NOTICE OF VACANCY
IN THE OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR
POYNINGS PARISH COUNCIL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
A casual vacancy exists in the Office of Councillor for Poynings Parish Council.
A by-election to fill the vacancy will be held if, within 14 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays) TEN electors of the electoral area give notice in writing claiming such an election to the Proper Officer.
The Proper Officer is: Tom Clark, Returning Officer,
Mid Sussex District Council, Oaklands,
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1SS
Email: elections@midsussex.gov.uk
If no such notice is given the Parish Council shall fill the vacancy by co-option.
Dated: 22nd November 2020 Signed: C. Warburton Parish Clerk
Address of Parish Clerk:
Colin Warburton
Hideaway Cottage
Poynings Road
Poynings
BN45 7AP
Tel: 01273 857024
clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.com
Dec 17
Christmas bin collection dates
For those of you that have lost the label that was put on your bin last week, here are the Christmas collection dates.
Don’t forget, they are coming this Saturday.
Black Rubbish bin collection Saturday 19 December 2020
Blue Recycling bin collection Monday 28 December 2020
Black Rubbish bin collection Monday 04 January 2021
Blue Recycling bin collection Monday 11 January 2021
There will be no garden waste collections between Monday 21st December and Friday 1st January
All collections will return to normal from Monday 4th January 2021
Dec 17
Poynings Community 2020 – Lighting up the Christmas tree!
This year, our community Christmas tree will be on display outside Holy Trinity church for all to enjoy.
Do come to Cora’s Corner, opposite the church, from 5.45pm on Saturday 19th December for our special lighting up ceremony!
Pyecombe Choir will lead us in carols until 6pm when Rev’d Tim will light up our village Christmas tree.
Join in with the carols ~ words are here.
Please bring along your own mulled wine ~ warm mince pies will be served.
Stay safe: Face-masks advised, wear high viz if you have it and keep all children carefully supervised.
Traffic calming measures will be in place through the village.
We would once again like to express our gratitude to Rushfields, who has generously donated our tree and 3000 sparkly fairy lights!
For song sheet, CLICK HERE
Dec 17
Village newsletter
For those of you who have lost the village newsletter (or don’t live in the village).
Click here for a copy
Dec 17
From the Rectory
Well, it has certainly not been the year we were planning for. This is the year we should have been celebrating the 850th and the 650th anniversaries of our churches in Pyecombe and Poynings respectively. Instead, our churches have predominately remained closed, although more recently we have been able to open some of them for private prayer. Newtimber remains open all day, every day. Pyecombe was open during the day until the recent lockdown curtailed this for the time being. Poynings is open for private prayer on Saturdays, but sadly we have not been able to facilitate the opening of St Andrew’s at Edburton yet, at all.
Sundays on Zoom
Church services for all four parishes have been conducted on Zoom since March, initially from the Rectory study but for the past several weeks, it has been lovely to be able to host them from within Holy Trinity, Poynings where we have also welcomed a small congregation to be present in the church. During the recent lockdown we have continued to Zoom from Holy Trinity, but without a congregation present in church. This has enabled us to continue to worship together and has, I think, strengthened our sense of being a single community.
Mid Downland Parish
Hopefully our greater sense of community will make our transition from four distinct ecclesiastical parishes to one all the more natural. We will become the single ecclesiastical parish of Poynings with Edburton, Newtimber and Pyecombe on 1st January, 2021. That’s a bit of a mouthful, so our working name will be the Mid Downland Parish. This formalising of the informal union that has been in place for some time will make for easier administration and will safeguard us against the possibility of being unable to recruit churchwardens and other parochial officers in all four communities. It will also enable us to gain some financial benefit from managing a single relationship with utility and service providers.
There will be a single Parochial Church Council (PCC), with representatives from each parish church. All four of our churches will maintain their status as parish churches and there will, of course, remain a need for a group of volunteers with a particular interest in each of the churches. The first Annual Parochial Church Meeting (APCM) of the Mid Downland Parish will take place in January, when churchwardens, Deanery Synod representatives and PCC members will be elected. Full details of the meeting will be published in due course.
Currently each church is financially independent but they already share common costs. The biggest is our Parish Share – the contribution we make to the diocese – which is simply divided between the four. Apart from that the main costs are utilities, insurance premiums, and day to day running costs. These are met through the regular subscriptions of individuals and through the wonderful fundraising efforts of each of our communities. The income and expenditure is remarkably similar in each of the four churches so bringing them under a common account will not in any way result in funds being diverted away from the community in which they we raised, and they will remain absolutely essential.
The union of our parishes does have some potential benefits to all our parishioners; for example, anyone who could have been married or baptised in any one of our churches could now be married or baptised in any of the four.
Christmas services
Our planning for Christmas is necessarily a bit speculative, but our hope and intention is to hold our Carol Service at Pyecombe at 6.00 p.m. on Sunday 13 December, when the Pyecombe Choir will be singing outside the church before we go in. It will be a simpler service than usual, with restricted seating and no public singing. On Christmas Eve, at 4.00 p.m. we will Zoom a Nativity service, with children in mind, and at 9.30 p.m. we will Zoom a Bethlehem Midnight Mass (Bethlehem is two hours ahead of us).
On Christmas Day, at 10.30 a.m. a communion service will be Zoomed from within St John the Evangelist, Newtimber, when we hope we will also be able to host a small congregation so that those without access to Zoom can still join in.
I very much hope that you will be able to join us for one or more of these occasions.
If you would like to be added to the invitation to our Zoomed services, please let me have your email address and I will ensure that you receive them.
With every blessing for a joyful Christmas and looking forward with you, in hope, to the New Year.
Revd Tim.