Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) Consultation – opportunity to comment on draft SPD

The South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) is consulting on a draft Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

We would like to hear your views on this document. Further details of how to respond to the consultation are given below.

The aim of the Design Guide SPD is to raise design standards in the National Park and to provide best practice guidance regarding the design of new development. The Design Guide SPD applies to both residential and non-residential development and will be a material consideration in the determination of relevant planning applications once adopted.

Responding to the Consultation

The Design Guide SPD and related documents are available to view on the SDNPA website.

The consultation will run for a period of ten weeks, starting on Monday 28 June 2021.

All comments must be received by 11.59pm on Monday 6 September 2021.

If you have no means of access to the internet, please contact the SDNPA on 01730 814810 to arrange an appointment to view the consultation documents at the South Downs Centre.  Please note that this service requires officer time to come into the South Downs Centre and is strictly for those who have no other means of accessing the documents.

Please respond by email to planningpolicy@southdowns.gov.uk or in writing to Planning Policy, South Downs National Park Authority, South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 9DH.

After the end of the consultation period, any comments received will be considered in reviewing the amended draft SPD prior to adoption.

The next meeting of Poynings Parish Council to be held on the Village Hall on Wednesday 30^th June 2021 at 7pm.

Agenda

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes
3. Matters Arising
4. MSDC and WSDC
5. Public Participation
6. Expenditure for May 2021 and June 2021
7. Planning applications
   a) Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of single replacement 3 bed dwelling. Replacement of existing detached garages and workshop and consolidation into a single garage and home office building | Orchard Cottage Dyke Lane Poynings BN45 7AA
   Decision
   b) SDNP/21/01631/TCA | Common Ash tree REF: 09MN – Section fell down to close to ground level. Tree canopy appears to be at least 50% dead. Ivy removal from around stem base revealed bark coming away with ease. | Holy Trinity Church Poynings Road Poynings West Sussex
   Decision
8. Financial Report – Clerk
   a. Annual Governance Statement
   b. Accounting Statement
9. Church Wall and Bank
10. Cora’s Corner
11. Finger post
12. Passing place
13. Winter plan
14. Defibrillator training
15. Item’s for next month’s Agenda
16. Dates of Next month’s Meeting

Clerk to the Council
Mr Colin Warburton
clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.com

An Extraordinary meeting of Poynings Parish Council is to be held in the Village Hall on Wednesday 2^nd June 2021 at 7pm.

Agenda

• Apologies for Absence
• Minutes
• Planning
  New planning applications
  1. SDNP/21/02630/HOUS | Exterior Oil Boiler as replacement for internal oil cooker/boiler | Glebe Cottage The Street Poynings Brighton West Sussex BN45 7AQ
  https://planningpublicaccess.southdowns.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QSZR4OTUI4Q00&activeTab=summary 
  2.  SDNP/20/05773/FUL | Part demolition of light industrial building, formation of a new east facing elevation and the erection of 3 dwellings, access, car-parking and landscaping alterations | Aviation House The Street Poynings BN45 7AQ
  https://planningpublicaccess.southdowns.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QLP7Z9TULHZ00&activeTab=summary

Social Distancing to be observed.

Mr John Digby
Chair of the Council

You are invited to join with the Parish Council and the Church for a brief celebration of VE Day at Cora’s Corner

It is the anniversary of VE Day on Saturday May 8^th (Victory in Europe Day).
VE Day celebrates the Allied Forces accepting the German unconditional surrender from World War 2. The final document was signed on May 8^th 1945. The war was not yet fully over, as Japan had yet to surrender – which they did on Sept 2^nd 1945.
For many people, VE Day signalled an end. It gave millions of people a glimpse of a future not entirely governed by global war. And for families who were lucky enough to be reunited with loved ones, it was a day worth celebrating.

2.45pm. Gather at Cora’s Corner, subject to Covid restrictions, by our “Two Tommies” from Royal British Legion Industries.

Welcome from Tim Harford the Vicar

3pm.  2 minutes silence, giving us the chance to remember the sacrifice made by those who lost their lives, and to reflect on the unimaginable pain and suffering caused by the war.

Poem: Flanders Field (John McCrae)  – read by Rene Reynolds

Moonlight Serenade – played by James Bell

Poem  for VE Day, Victory in Europe (John Carter Brown) – read by Rob Delacour

Last Post – played by Nick Andrews

3.30.  End of programme.

Bell Ringers – led by Keith Chittenden, with Alice Day, Sophia and Emelia Miarkowska

Tea and cakes will be served  – donations welcome.

POYNINGS PARISH COUNCIL

The next meeting of Poynings Parish Council to be held online using Zoom software on Wednesday 5th May 2020 at 7pm.

Please email clerk at clerk@poyningsparishcouncil.com for Login details, which will be emailed prior to the meeting.

Agenda

1. Election of Chair and Vice Chair
   
2. Outgoing chairman’s report
   
3. Apologies for absence
   
4. Minutes
   
5. Matters Arising
   
6. MSDC and WSDC
   
7. Public Participation
   
8. Expenditure for Mar 2021 and Apr 2021
9. Planning applications
   a) SDNP/21/02207/FUL | Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of single replacement 3 bed dwelling. Replacement of existing detached garages and workshop and consolidation into a single garage and home office building | Orchard Cottage Dyke Lane Poynings BN45 7AA
   https://planningpublicaccess.southdowns.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QRUQOATUHJO00&activeTab=summary
   

   b) SDNP/21/01631/TCA | Common Ash tree REF: 09MN – Section fell down to close to ground level. Tree canopy appears to be at least 50% dead. Ivy removal from around stem base revealed bark coming away with ease. | Holy Trinity Church Poynings Road Poynings West Sussex
   https://planningpublicaccess.southdowns.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=QQD46VTUGL600&activeTab=summary

10. Insurance
11. Financial report.
12. Virtual Meetings
13.  Volunteers
14. Co-opting councillor
15. VE Day
16. Chairman’s Allowance
17. Item’s for next month’s Agenda
18. Dates of Next month’s MeetingMr Colin Warburton
    Clerk to the Council

    Hideaway Cottage
    6 Poynings Road
    Poynings
    BN45 7AP
    Tel: 01273 857024
    
    

– including when it comes to tackling age-old issues, such as potholes.

Highways officers and staff from contractors Balfour Beatty have seen the JCB Pothole Pro in action, repairing both potholes and larger damaged areas in roads in Rogate and Goring. The one machine tackles all the stages leading up to the new surface being laid. It:

Cuts out the repair area,

Crops the area, to ensure a stable surface…. and then

Cleans, ready for the laying of the new surface material.

A West Sussex Highways spokesperson said: “The Pothole Pro can be used for both pothole repairs and larger areas of patching.

“We were able to see first-hand its precision, speed and efficiency in tackling the tasks. It’s one of the innovations we have been trialling and will be assessing the results.”

Caption: Montage picture: from top left: cutting, cropping (bottom left to right) and cleaning/ removing old surface material

Roads are not permanent structures and deteriorate over time from constant use, the weight of vehicles using them and the effects of weather.

Repairing defects, such as potholes, is done on a priority basis, dependent on size and depth.

More than 20,500 potholes were repaired by West Sussex Highways in 2020 – that’s the equivalent of about 390 a week and compares to 16,000 pothole repairs in 2019.

If a pothole is a significant and immediate risk to public safety, phone 01243 642105.