Author: Irene - Parish Clerk

High Weald AONB Management Plan Consultation

From the High Weald AONB – there are links to their Biennial Review and to the survey for their 5-year management plan, to which all are invited to take part.

Dear Parish or Town Councillor,

Please see below some information on our current High Weald AONB Management Plan consultation; we’d be very grateful if you could share the survey link and accompanying information with your residents, please, as we would appreciate their feedback.

We have also just published our Biennial Review, covering the financial years 2020-21 and 2020-21. The report sets out our activities and achievements over this time period, including how we dealt with the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The report can be downloaded here so again please feel free to share as you see fit.

Many thanks,

Emma White
Communications Officer

High Weald AONB Unit 

Have your say on the future of the High Weald AONB

We are currently seeking feedback as part of our work towards the next High Weald AONB Management Plan, which is due to be published in 2024. 

A draft version of the next Plan will be available for formal public consultation in late Spring 2023. 

In the meantime, we are keen to gather early feedback on some of the new topics we are hoping to include in the next Plan. Your comments are important; they can help us shape the next Management Plan and how the High Weald AONB is managed for the next 5 years.

Please find a link below to a quick survey on the proposed new content – you do not have to be familiar with the current Management Plan to take part in this survey, however you can access the current High Weald AONB Management Plan here if you wish.  The survey is open until the end of November 2022. 

Complete the survey: https://www.highweald.org/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=70

Tel: 01424 723017

Woodland Enterprise Centre, Hastings Road, Flimwell, East Sussex, TN5 7PR

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The Messenger Magazine PARTY (and AGM) this Friday

All readers of the Messenger Magazine are warmly invited to the annual party (and AGM), which will be held THIS FRIDAY (30th September) – starting at 7.30pm in Brightling Village Hall.
There will be FREE DRINKS (alcoholic and soft) and nibbles.  This is primarily a social occasion, an opportunity to have a relaxing chat with neighbours and others in Brightling, Dallington, Mountfield and Netherfield.  It is also our AGM (Annual General Meeting) so there will be some brief formalities (very brief, we promise!) including electing the Committee that runs the magazine, and an opportunity to discuss the magazine if you wish and perhaps make suggestions for making it even better.
The Committee hopes that as many people as possible will come.  It’s an opportunity to show your support for the magazine or tell us what could make it better – or just a relaxing evening with a glass of wine or something.
Hope to see you on Friday.
Irene – Parish Clerk

Vacancy for a Mountfield Parish Councillor

Mountfield Parish Council have a vacancy for a Councillor due to the resignation of Nick Randle.
We hope to co-opt a new Councillor at our meeting on 8th November 2022.
If anyone is interested in applying, please download the application below and for any further information, contact the Clerk on – clerk@mountfield.org.uk – or phone me on 01424 838414.

Click on this link to download the application form

All application forms must be received by the Clerk by 4.00pm on 01.11.22
Irene – Parish Clerk

Agenda for MPC meeting on Wednesday 28.09.22

AGENDA FOR THE MOUNTFIELD PARISH COUNCIL MEETING ON 28th SEPTEMBER 2022

22nd September 2022

Parish Council Members are summoned to a Council Meeting of Mountfield Parish Council to be held on 13th September, at 7.30pm in Mountfield Village Hall.

Members of the press and public are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Irene Marchant – Parish Clerk/RFO

St. Giles, Woods Corner, Dallington, East Sussex TN21 9LA

01424 838414/07711 224150

clerk@mountfield.org.uk

1. Disclosure of Interests

To receive any disclosures by Members of personal interests in matters on the agenda, the nature of any such interest and whether the Member regards the interest s a disclosable pecuniary interest under the terms of the Code of Conduct.

2. Dispensations

3. Apologies for absence

4. Accuracy of the minutes of the previous meeting(s)

5. Open Forum

5.1 County Council report (ESCC) – Councillor K. Field

5.2 District Council report (RDC) – Councillor E. Kirby-Green

5.3 Public Question Time – to receive any questions/concerns from the public on matters on the agenda.

6. Co-option of new Mountfield Parish Councillor

To discuss the details of the co-option process for a new MPC Councillor.

7. “Quiet Lanes”

To discuss the possibility/implications of “Quiet Lanes” in Mountfield (Councillor Miles)

8. DEFRA Deer Management proposal

To discuss the above and the British Gypsum information.

9. Matters Outstanding

  • Due to the resignation of Nick Randle the proposed MPC Resilience Plan and Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme are presently in abeyance.
  • Welcome Packs (Councillor Miles).
  • MPC Environmental Policy (Councillor Miles).

10. Planning

10.1 Planning applications for consideration

  • RR/2022/1750/P – John’s Cross Inn, John’s Cross Road (A21)

Alterations and improvements to an existing Grade II listed property. Works to include: the removal of the existing brick and tiled lean-to extension to the rear and replacement with a new low pitched extension; adaptions to the existing staircase to enlarge the first floor landing; installation of a new fence to the front of the property and other minor improvement works.

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

  • RR/2022/1752/L – John’s Cross Inn, John’s Cross Road (A21)

Listed building consent for above application.

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

  • RR/2022/1996/O – Little Millham Annexe, Mountfield Lane

Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing change of use from office space to a residential dwelling.

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

  • RR/2022/1098/L – Carpenter’s Cottage, Vinehall Road

Creation of window and associated dormer to north elevation.

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

  • RR/2022/1962/P – Castle Farm Cottages, Mountfield TN32 5JU

Extension of residential curtilage and erection of timber framed double garage on land previously used as a parking area outside the curtilage of property.

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

  • RR/2022/2180/P – Baldwins Farm, Mountfield Lane

Retention of garden landscaping works, dwarf retaining wall and log/bin store (retrospective).

Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website

10.2 To discuss the issues surrounding planning application RR/2022/840/P (Sedlescombe)

and any future actions by MPC.

10.3 Any other planning matters for discussion.

11. Enforcement

11.1 No Mountfield items on the most recent RDC Enforcement List.

11.2 Any other enforcement matters for discussion.

12. Highways/Rights of Way

To consider any urgent matters that need reporting to ESCC Highways and RoW.

13. Finance

13.1 Bank balances at 31.08.22

  • MPC deposit account – £23,953.87
  • MPC current account – £1,535.93
  • KGF current account – £4,121.46

13.2 Payments for approval

  • Clerk – salary/home office (Aug/Sep 2022) – £910.80
  • ***Dallington Parish Council – £301.97
  • * ESALC/NALC subscription 2022-23 – £162.70
  • * SP Services (2 defibb carry cases) – £144.00
  • * T. Tidmarsh (keys cut for KGF) – £40.00
  • * PlaySafety (playground inspection 2022) – £84.00
  • * Mitch Safety (KGF pavilion fire inspection 2022) – £70.00
  • * Mastercard fee – £3.00
  • * Satswana (DPO services 2022-23) – £90.00

*** Godaddy charge for hosting (3-year) term, Godaddy charged to incorrect card.

* Paid already

13.3 To approve the cash book, bank reconciliations and budget monitor at 31.08.22.

14. Dates of next meetings

  • 11.10.22 – planning meeting (provisional)
  • 08.11.22 – full council meeting

Eucharist with special intention for Queen Elizabeth II

There will be a Eucharist with special intention for Queen Elizabeth at 10am on the 18th September at All Saints, Mountfield.  The service will follow our normal format, but the readings are recommended to us as being favourites of our late Queen.  There will also be prayers for the Royal Family and King Charles III.  We will sing two verses of God save the King at the end of the service.
Irene – Parish Clerk