Your Passions, Your Ideas…How can YOU inspire others?
If you are aged 16 to 25 then you can apply for part of the £65,000 prize fund to tackle the Big Challenge theme for 2010. The Big Challenge are looking for original project or campaign ideas that will have a big impact and inspire other young people. This is your chance to make a difference!  

Remember the Show is on 7th August. Photography classes are "a Sussex Woodland"' "Winter" and "I spy something beginning with D" - Get snapping now!

Can we please ask anyone making a BLOG entry to keep the title as short as possible.  We have recently had to edit titles from their entered length as they were causing the Home Page layout to be distorted.
Editor

The Ecology Consultancy have been commissioned to carry out a range of wildlife surveys in this part of Hadlow Down on behalf of East Sussex County Council. They form part of the ongoing works at Scullwood Lane Landfill Site. From May to June you may notice that there are pieces of roofing felt around the edges of Scullwood Lane Landfill Site and along the grass verge of Waghorns Lane. These are part of the reptile survey which requires repeat visits over the next month. They should be left undisturbed as reptiles such as lizards and slow worms may be using them to thermo-regulate and interference may delay the survey period.They will be collected up when the survey is finished. Thank you for your understanding. If you have any further questions please contact Ray Smith at ESCC 01273 482965.

Received from The Ecology Consultancy

The proposed re-furbishment and development plans for the New Inn can now be seen on the Wealden District Council Planning Dept. web site.
Cick here to be transferred.

Please note:-
WDC have sent notification that the implementation of the new Kerbside Re-cycling Phase 2 Scheme has been delayed due to not receiving the new vehicles required in time for the planned start date.
All talks/presentations as previously advertised have therefor been cancelled.

 Sales of prints etc., with wine and 'nibbles' refreshments, plus the auction of the ORIGINAL artwork for 'The Village Print' will take place in the Village Hall on Saturday June 5th. at 7.30 p.m.
 

This year's Rose Cottage Garden Open Days for the National Gardens Scheme are as follows:
25th. April, 30th. May & 20th. June all from 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Ken & Heather look forward to showing their wonderful garden to all from near and far.  The NGS supports a number of care trusts including Macmillan and Marie Curie so please make notes in your diaries and spread the word.
The web site is considering publishing other NGS Open Garden dates in the Calendar section - if you would like to see this please let us know.
Ed 

Uckfield Music Club have sent us details of the exciting programme of concerts to be held in St. Margaret's Church, Buxted during 2010.
Click here to see or download the full details.

At the March Parish Council Meeting councillors agreed to make use of the facilities offered by this web site rather than pursue a course of setting up their own separate site. Thus saving a considerable amount of taxpayer's money.  Representatives of Hadlow Down Online agreed to ensure the security of the Parish Council's own dedicated pages on the site and to work with the council on developing a mutually beneficial channel of communication between the Parish Council and villagers.
The establishment of communication via a website also helps fulfill some of the requirements that will be required if our Parish Council should apply for NALC 'Quality Status'.   News of which we hope to bring you sometime in the near future.

Dear Parishioners Young and not so Young !
 

On Thurs, 22nd. Oct. the Claude Jessett Trust Company Ltd. was given planning permission for their Tinker's Park major application involving replacement buildings and a number of new ones after the chairman of the Wealden Planning and Building Control Committee expressed the view that the site needed to be tidied up and that it resembled "Steptoe's Yard"!  Numerous conditions were placed on the permission, some were made after representations by neighbours to the planning officer in charge who granted a discussion meeting prior to the committee sitting and subsequently recommended that no more than two events in any calendar year, other than the June steam rally, should exceed one day in duration. The organisation will now be required to keep proper records of events and make them available to the local Planning Dept.  Other conditions  included the banning of all firework displays, floodlighting and amplified music outside of the confines of buildings.  Neighbours are currently reviewing appeal and legal options.
Click here to read or download the full  planning permission document. 

DID YOU KNOW?

Sussex Police have an ongoing campaign for anti social behaviour for
drivers. This includes motor cycles speeding through our village which has
been raised numerous times in the Community Planning process.