Brian Holdstock PC

The Parish Council welcomes Mrs Fay Merrick who was co-opted to the Council at its meeting last Wednesday.

On Monday 1st July work starts in Church Road for two weeks which promises to disrupt traffic.  Highways will be drilling holes in the Centre of the road at intervals to take core samples of the sub-surface.  Expect to see road closed signs from Woods Corner to Kitchenham Road though the actual restricted section should only be between The Pound and Ponts Green.  They have agreed to suspend all work on Election Day.  On Church Road itself there could be holdups until an escort vehicle takes you round the obstruction (or so says the notice). Feedback will be posted here  once we find out in practice what’s happening next week.

Whether or not you go to one of the local exhibition venues it’s worth looking at the plan online.  Click on this news item title to see the links.  To go directly to the document click document.  To go to the cover page where you can make a comment click comment.

As part of the public consultation there is an exhibition of the plan at numerous venues. Details of those nearest Ashburnham are:

Bexhill Wed 12th June 3pm – 7pm – Beulah Baptist Church, Clifford Road, TN40 1QA  *
Battle Wed 19th June 3pm – 7pm – Battle Memorial Hall, High Street, TN33 0AQ  *
Bexhill Tue 25th June  2.30pm – 6.30pm – St Marks Church Hall, Green Lane, TN39 4BZ  *
Bexhill Tue 2nd July  3pm – 7pm – The Pelham, Holliers Hill, TN40 2DD

Cllr Paul Spicer was elected Chairman at the Annual Meeting of the Parish Council on Wednesday 29th May.  Cllr Spicer was previously Deputy Chairman, a position to which Cllr Jay Ashworth was elected.

It was the wish of the Annual Village Meeting that the Parish Council write to the fund raisers organising events to raise money for the new village hall and convey to them the wishes of the meeting now that it has been generally agreed that the new hall project has run into difficulties which seem insurmountable.  The letter has been sent and can be viewed by clicking here.

The minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 25th April are now available to view on the parish council minutes page.  To go straight there click above then this link.

In his resignation letter Cllr Ron King said how much he enjoyed being part of the Parish Council these past few years, but felt it was time to step back and let others come forward with new energy and ideas.  We shall miss his quick wit and sometimes pithy comments as well as the enormous amount of hard work he put in patrolling the roads and keeping an inventory of the salt bins and the status of pot hole repairs.

The Annual Village Meeting is on Thursday 25th April 2024 at the village hall from 7 pm.  More on the parish council meetings page or click above and then the link to the page.

Click the title of this item and then the link to the minutes.