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David’s funeral will be at Brightling Church on Tuesday 4th March 2025 at 11.00am. The Rev Ann-Marie Crosse will conduct the service.
Joanna Coleman has very kindly agreed to provide refreshments and everyone is welcome to come to the Village Hall afterwards.
PLEASE COULD YOU LET ME KNOW IF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING by emailing [email protected] – so Joanna knows the numbers to cater for.
Dear Resident,
We’re offering a chance for New Subscribers to join our Garden Waste Service now, but have a collection right up until July 14th next year!
That means we’re already offering up to 17 months of service for a single year’s subscription, but in addition to this, you can take up a subscription that covers next year before the price increases – £81 for your first bin, plus £66 for any additional bins you want after that.
Our Valentines Day offer will end at Midnight on Sunday 2nd March, so you have a couple of weeks to decide if you want to take up this offer before we close our subscriptions for this year and re-open them again in April for the 25/26 season.
We hope this offer gives you a chance to manage your garden more easily without having to think about disposing of your waste, giving you peace of mind until Summer 2026!
For more information and to subscribe to the service, please visit our Subscribe to the Garden Waste webpage.
Best wishes,
Rother District Council
Rother District Council, Town Hall, London Rd, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN39 3JX
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Many of you will know and remember David, who was born in and lived in Brightling all his life.
When Freddie and I moved to Dallington in 1988, we met David through Brightling and Asburnham Cricket Clubs when Freddie joined.
He became a good friend and would often pop in for a coffee and a chat – I typed up his “Brightling Birds” section for the Messenger for many years.
He was the centre of village life for most of his life and served as Chair of the Brightling Parish Council, he was also a Churchwarden and Member of Brightling PCC for many years.
He was a Trustee of the Brightling Village Trust and took over the running of all the other village charities.
A keen bellringer from childhood and Captain of the Bells from 1999.
He played for Brightling Park Cricket Club from his youth, regularly topping the batting and bowling averages as well as maintaining the cricket ground.
David was the driving force behind Brightling’s annual village litter clean-up and the carol singers at Christmas.
He will be much missed and Freddie and I have lost a good friend.
The intrepid Mountfield Navy launched their longboat and fished 35 – yes 35 – tyres out of Mountfield Pond and then disposed of them legally . These were illegally dumped, probably the same bunch that dumped a load of tyres at the King George’s Field.
Seriously, very many thanks to Susan O’Sullivan, Cliff Thompson, Nick Holden, James Fraser and Barry O’Sullivan, great work and effort.
Use this link for ticket booking
RR/2025/50/O – Land to the rear of Church House
Certificate of Lawfulness for the existing use of land as residential curtilage.
Deadline for comments is – 18.02.25.
Click on this link to see full details on the RDC planning website
The Met Office have issued a Yellow Warning for strong winds and rain tomorrow – 23rd January 2025 – for London and the SE of England.
For full details please click on the link below.
Met Office Yellow Warning 23.01.25
Dear Stakeholder
We’ll shortly be carrying out resurfacing works to the A21 between Johns Cross and Westfield Lane.
To carry out these works safely there will be overnight closures to the A21 in both directions from Johns Cross to Westfield lane between the hours of 8pm to 6am weeknights only.
Works will be carried out in two sections to reduce impact to local residents and businesses along the A21.
Section one:
Johns Cross to Sedlescombe Golf Club
Section two:
Marley Lane to Westfield Lane
Diversions:
Southbound traffic will be diverted onto the A2100, A2690, Mount View Street, Westwood Road, Hastings Road, A259 to rejoin the A21 at Hastings.
Northbound traffic will follow the above diversion in reverse.
Where to find out more
You can visit, https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/south-east/south-east-maintenance-schemes/ and scroll down to A21 Resurfacing works.
If you have any questions about this work, you can contact National Highways Customer Contact Centre on 0300 123 5000 open 24/7, who will direct your enquiry to the most appropriate person, or email: [email protected].
Kind regards
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Parish Council Members are summoned to a meeting of Mountfield Parish Council, to be held on 21st January 2025 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 – [email protected]
16th January 2025
AGENDA
To receive any disclosures by Members of personal interests in matters on this agenda, the nature of any such interest and whether the Member considers the interest as a disclosable pecuniary interest under the terms of the Code of Conduct.
5.1 County Council report – Councillor K. Field
5.2 District Council report – Councillor E. Kirby-Green
5.3 Public Question Time – to receive any questions or concerns from members of the public on matters on this agenda.
6.1 To approve by resolution the MPC Draft Revenue Budget for 2025-26.
6.2 To approve by resolution the MPC precept for 2025-26.
For Members to consider how the remaining CIL amount can best be spend during 2025-26.
To receive an update on the latest situation by Councillor O’Sullivan. (COUNCILLOR O’SULLIVAN)
This item will be discussed at the MPC March meeting, as Councillor Purdie has sent apologies.
To receive an update on progress from Councillor Whines (COUNCILLOR WHINES)
For Members to consider a new piece of playground equipment and the removal of the rocking horse.
For Members to consider the latest update from ESCC and briefly discuss any implications for parish councils.
13.1 No planning applications for consideration.
13.2 Any other planning matters for discussion.
14.1 No Mountfield items on RDC’s most recent enforcement list.
14.2 Any other enforcement matters for discussion.
To discuss any urgent highways/RoW matters.
17.1 Bank balances at 31.12.24
17.2 To approve the following payments:
17.3 To approve the third quarter accounts at 31.12.24 as presented by the Clerk.