Aug 05
Just a reminder about the VILLAGE PICNIC AND ROUNDERS MATCH scheduled for Sunday August 24 in North Town Field, Fulking.
Meet for picnic at lunchtime – say around 1 pm? Followed by rounders — all welcome.
Fingers crossed we get a warm, sunny day.
Any queries email Jen Green on jengreenuk@yahoo.co.uk.
Aug 04
Right for all you Sold As Seen fans! After the great gig at the Fulking Fair the next outdoor gig is on August 15th 2014 at The Hikers Rest Cafe on Saddlescombe Farm.
£15 per person to include food or £7.50 per person for entry only.
Hot & cold drinks available to purchase separately or bring your own booze!
It starts at 7pm. There are also tent pitches available at a nominal charge.
Tickets are for sale NOW at The Hikers Rest Cafe, Saddlescombe Farm, Saddlescombe Road.
Look forward to seeing you there.
CDs will be available to purchase either on the night or on the website http://kevsoldasseen.wix.com/clapperboard
Aug 02
The Downland Churches
Holy Trinity Poynings, St Andrew’s, Edburton
St John the Evangelist, Newtimber
The Transfiguration, Pyecombe
August 2014
Sunday 3rd August Trinity 7
10 am Family Service Poynings
followed at 11.15 by Holy Communion
11am Family Communion Edburton
Sunday 10th August Trinity 8
10 am Holy Communion Newtimber
6 pm Evening Service Pyecombe
Sunday 17th August Trinity 9
10 am Holy Communion Poynings 11 am Family Communion Edburton
Sunday 24th August St Bartholomew
10 am Holy Communion Pyecombe
Sunday 31st August Trinity 11
10 am Holy Communion Newtimber
Morning and Evening Prayer each week
At 9am on Wednesdays at Poynings
At 6pm: Mondays (Edburton),Wednesdays (Pyecombe)
At 5pm: Tuesdays at Newtimber
Evergreens (for the over 60’s)
Monday 4th August, 3.30 – 5pm
at Manor Farm, Poynings (Carol and Maurice Revell’s home)
Weddings
Sat, 2nd August John Cairns and Larissa Lopes Edburton
Special events and dates this month
Friday 12th Sept, ‘Timespan’ event, Pyecombe, 7.30pm;
Sunday 14th Sept, Pyecombe dedication service, 6pm
Sunday 28th Sept, evening, Pimms and Hymns, Edburton
Clergy contact details:
Revd Dr Caroline Currer, Priest-in-Charge
Tel 01273 857456 c.currer@btinternet.com
Revd Graham Jeffery (mainly Edburton) 01273 494559
Jul 31
Please be aware that if the weather continues to be dry, we would like to harvest the fields west of the village.
This means that we are going to have to be able to move our Combine Harvester, which is rather large and 15 foot wide, through the village, at short notice.
Please could you make sure that your cars are not parked in the road blocking our way through, if you are likely to be away for the day and leaving them unattended.
I have spoken to Sussex Police about abnormal road movements and they have informed me that the vehicle removal regulations allow them to tow away any vehicle that prevents any person from carrying out their lawful work. Any charges for this will fall on the owners of the offending vehicles.
I do not intend to be unreasonable, but the grain moisture is critical as it cannot be stored above a certain percent, and warm periods of hot dry weather are crucial for harvesting. As some of you have got more than 2 cars, with limited parking space, if you need to park a car out of the way there is room up the farm, please ring me.
Thank you, in anticipation of your co-operation.
Mark Lee
857239/07973 749431
Jul 29
This weekend.
For those who have been holding back your plans for Sunday 3rd August we have checked the seaweed and all fine for Newtimber’s Strawberry Tea and Pimms Harp Recital at Newtimber Place. Sunny and 21 degrees – perfect.
Tickets £12 adults, £5 children (3-18 years) includes Pimms or soft drink, Strawberries and cream on the lawns, open gardens of Newtimber Place, harp recitals by Ella Murrell next to the moat and tea and scones in the tearoom.
Plenty of parking, toilet for the disabled. Booking through Shirley Murrell 01273 857353 or Lucy Dalrymple 01273 832009 or on the gate. Bring picnics, chairs and blankets. See you at 2.30 pm
Jul 29
Register your property today
Operation Magpie is our shared ambition to make Sussex a ‘no go’ area for burglars.
Our officers, staff and volunteers are working with our partners to make it impossible for burglars to operate in the county and now we are asking for your help.
When our officers respond to reports of burglary, they often cannot get enough detailed information about the items which have been stolen – without old boxes for electrical items or photographs of jewellery for example it can be very difficult to accurately identify what has been taken.
Better information not only helps us to get a better picture of where burglaries may be part of a series, it also greatly increases the chances of us being able to reunite stolen property with its rightful owner.
Immobilise.com is a free website where you can register the details of your property. The site isn’t just for mobiles and electrical items with serial numbers; you can register absolutely anything using a photo and description.
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Jul 29
Changes to Brighton area 01273 phone numbers in October 2014
01273 is the area code for Brighton, as well as Barcombe, Glynde, Hassocks, Henfield, Hove, Hurstpierpoint, Kemptown, Lewes, Newhaven, Peacehaven, Plumpton, Portslade, Poynings, Ringmer, Rottingdean, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick and Withdean.
From 1st October 2014, it will be necessary to always include the 01273 area code when dialling 01273 numbers, even if calling locally.
Changes to local dialling
Until the end of September 2014 the area code remains optional when dialling between landline phones in the area; calls may be made locally using just the six-digit local number.
From 1st October 2014, it will be necessary to dial 01273 area phone numbers in full, even when calling locally.
For example, callers could reach the city council by dialling 290000 prior to the change, if they were calling from an 01273 landline phone. Now they must dial 01273 290000, just as callers from mobile phones or outside the area always had to.
Reason for the change
The 01273 area code is heavily used, with very limited supplies of numbers available for new customers. Previously, extra capacity would be created by lengthening local phone numbers – such as by moving from six digits to seven and giving a corresponding ten-fold increase in capacity.
In Brighton, regulator Ofcom is trying a different strategy, requiring individuals to use the code for dialling local numbers to allow previously unusable local phone numbers beginning with 0 or 1 to be used.
By not carrying out a full renumbering, there is less upheaval for consumers as numbers do not actually change. However it also releases a much smaller quantity of new numbers and removes the ability to dial local numbers without the code.
Phone numbers stay the same
Only the ability to dial between 01273 area phones without the code is being removed – the full national phone numbers in use by residents and businesses stay the same. Long-distance calls to and from Brighton remain unchanged, as do calls to and from mobile phones.
Further changes in the future
This change only releases a small pool of additional numbers, which is expected to last between 5 and 10 years.
After these numbers are used up, it is likely the area will be given a second batch of numbers beginning with a different area code. This means some numbers will begin with the traditional 01273, while others may begin with completely different digits. This situation does not exist anywhere else in the UK as yet, although it is common in other countries. For example, telephone numbers in central New York can begin with any of three area codes: 212, 646 and 917.
Due to the change, it is now advisable to always quote 01273 numbers in full – ‘01273 290000’ and not ‘Brighton 290000’, for example. This will remind people that the full number must be dialled, while also minimising any future confusion should numbers starting with a code other than 01273 come into use in the future.
Jul 27
27th July 2014
Dear All
We have added a new article to the website today detailing Mayfields plans as shown in their submission to Horsham District Council – to see the scale of their proposals logon to our website at \http:lambs.org.uk\
Thank you to everyone who has contacted the County Times with their response to the Mayfields submission. Please do take the time to send your views on the Mayfields plans to ct.news@jpress.co.uk. The deadline for this week is tomorrow night (28th July). To ensure we get fair press coverage, it is important the local papers are aware of the strength of local feeling against Mayfields so we would ask that you continue to send letters for use in future issues.
Below are a list of the key points.
· This scheme is not supported by elected local councils, local MPs or by local communities.
· Both Mid Sussex and Horsham Districts have made provisions for housing which do not include this development.
· This area is a Greenfield site which is partly on a flood plain, includes many miles of ancient hedgerows and is valuable habitat for many endangered and listed species of wildlife.
· The site is not on a railway line and has little or no existing infrastructure. The nearest rail service, 7 miles away, is already at capacity.
· The area has historically suffered from flooding.
· There is a great risk that increasing the flow of waste water into the river will cause devastating flooding downstream.
· This area also suffers from water shortages in the summer.
· Despite ridiculous claims that the settlement would be self contained it would soon become a commuter town causing terrible congestion.
· The local services would become overloaded – hospitals, schools, emergency services.
· Historic local villages like Twineham and Wineham, which date back to Anglo Saxon times, would be wiped out.
· The continued uncertainty hanging over the area is causing Blight and has seriously affected property values.
· The issue is causing real and genuine distress in the local communities.
· The stunning view from Devils Dyke would be ruined forever.
· There are enough Brownfield sites in the UK to build one and half million homes – so no excuse for destroying the countryside.
· One of Mayfields’ Directors is Lord Matthew Taylor who overhauled Britain’s new planning laws (the NPPF). He stands to make a fortune if the new town goes ahead. This is a conflict of interest.
· The Government has stressed many times the importance of ‘Garden Cities’ being locally led. This is absolutely not the case with Mayfields.
· Mayfields has behaved in a dishonest and manipulative way – trying to set one community against another in desperate attempts to gain local support.
· Mayfields has been subjecting local councillors to considerable pressure in an effort to persuade them to support the scheme – They have even sent letters to their private addresses. Our councillors should be commended for resisting!
· Mayfields is claiming to have consulted with local people; that is nonsense. One meeting with a worried resident does not constitute a consultation.
· The Mayfields’ Park and Ride service would be the only one in the country designed to get people out of a town not into one. People simply wouldn’t use it, preferring to drive themselves directly to the station or work, causing chaos.
· Mayfields’ fast coach service to London would be a joke – it is impossible to drive to London quickly from here!
· The carbon footprint created by Mayfields would be immense. No amount of wind turbines or green initiatives could compensate for the destruction of countryside on that scale, or for the tens of thousands of extra car journeys.
Together we will defeat Mayfields
Thank you
LAMBS
Jul 26
Mayfields have objected to Horsham Council’s District Plan which proposes to build 13,000 houses over 20 years. Mayfields say thousands more homes are needed on top of the planned 13,000 and suggest the figure should be closer to 24,000. This would mean a huge increase in building throughout the area in addition to the new town itself. The Horsham half of the new town plan accounts for only 5,000 of this increase – the other 5,000 being in Mid Sussex.
The County Times have this week printed details of Mayfields submission and we would urge all our supporters to contact the paper this week at ct.news@jpress.co.uk to let them know your views.
The article is here County Times and you can see the Mayfields submission at:
http://horsham-consult.limehouse.co.uk/common/search/advanced_search.jsp?id=0&eventId=22692&page=0&pageSize=20&sortMode=response_date&lookingFor=representations&tab=find&searchQuery=mayfield&x=0&y=0
and click the PDF at the bottom. The direct link is on the LAMBS website.
If localism is to work, we need to ensure there is no doubt of the opposition for the number of houses Mayfields say are necessary – 1,000 per year as opposed to 650 recommended by Horsham..
with thanks
LAMBS
