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Hadlow Down Book Club Review – April 2021

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
‘Pachinko is a foolish game, but life was not.’

Our book this month was “Pachinko”, by Min Jin Lee, an American Korean who spent time in Japan with her husband. This was one of the most popular choices among writers offering their summer choices to the Irish Times and a runner-up to the National Book Award for Fiction 2017.
Pachinko is a game of chance – a cross between pinball and slot machines in which the managers tilt the pins to make more money. Popular in Japan, but disreputable because of its element of gaming, Pachinko halls were often one way for Korean immigrants to make money, as do three of the main characters in the novel. The title of the book is literal but also metaphoric – life is like the game of Pachinko, especially for despised immigrants like the Koreans in Tokyo.

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Hadlow Down Book Club Review – March 2021

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
‘Everything ends… doesn’t mean it wasn’t good’.

A few years ago the Book Club read Francis Spufford’s debut picaresque novel ‘On Golden Hill’. Described as a frolicsome, exuberant romp, all of us really enjoyed it and we were therefore keen to read his next novel, Light Perpetual’, a title taken from the Requiem Prayer. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – March 2021”

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Notifications to be discussed at 1st June 2021 HD PC meeting

PROPOSED UPGRADE TO BASE STATION INSTALLATION AT CTIL 10801821 / TEF 2419 POPESWOOD RESERVOIR, BUXTED, EAST SUSSEX, TN22 4QA

Site plan and letter:

 

WD/2021/1207/OH – TINKERS LANE, HADLOW DOWN
Description:  OVERHEAD LINE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT, WHICH IS NECESSARY TO RESOLVE A LOCALISED VOLTAGE COMPLAINT. THE PROPOSAL IS TO REFURBISH THE OVERHEAD LINE TO AERIAL BUNDLED
CONDUCTOR (ABC).
Link to documents on web: http://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=153985

WD/2020/2483/F – HADLOW HOUSE FARM COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD, HADLOW DOWN, TN22 4EP
Description:  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND RE-BUILD USING TIMBER FRAME WITH LIKE FOR LIKE REPLACEMENT ROOF. EXTERNAL
FOOTPRINT OF THE EXISTING BUILDING WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED,
WITH THE ADDITION OF THE PROPOSED EXTENSIONS
DIMENSIONED ON THE DRAWING. EXTERNAL MATERIAL PALETTE
WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED TO ENSURE THE AESTHETICS OF THE
BUILDING ARE RETAINED.
Link to documents on web:  https://planning.wealden.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=152059

 

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Neighbours Object as New Plan Submitted for Homes on Village Hall Site

From Uckfield News:

A new outline planning application has been submitted to demolish Hadlow Down Village Hall and build three homes on the site.

Outline permission was given in 2018 for the project- see a previous Uckfield News story: Plans to demolish village hall and build three homes approved – but reserved matters have not been submitted within the three years required.

The same design and access statement submitted for the first application, number WD/2018/0089/0 accompanies the new application, number WD/2021/0471.

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The Great British Spring Clean

From Wealden District Council

Save the date: The next Great British Spring Clean will be held in Wealden from 28 May until 13 June 2021.


Our outdoor spaces are more important to us now than ever before. We are once again proud to support Keep Britain Tidy and their Great British Spring Clean campaign to free our outdoor spaces from litter. Close to a million bags of litter were collected in the UK in 2019. Wealden District Council has supported this initiative for the past five years. In the past year alone, volunteer litter pickers in Wealden have been very active, collecting well in excess of 1,500 bags of litter. This Spring, Keep Britain Tidy call on you to join their #MillionMileMission to clean up the country and show some love for those special places that helped us though lockdown. If 250,000 people pledge to pick up litter for 90 minutes each, a million miles of outdoor space would be covered – that’s to the moon and back twice!

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