Parish News | Coldwaltham Parish Council

Traffic Speed Controls – we’d like you to complete this survey.

Filed Under: Parish News, Uncategorised | Posted on 21st June 2024 | 0 Comments

Have your say … on the A29

Are you fed up with cars, lorries and motorbikes speeding dangerously through our villages?

Please tell us your views by completing our quick online survey at www.tinyurl.com/a29survey

We’re a small group of locals working with the Parish Council who want to lobby West Sussex County Council to make the A29 safer for everyone.

Our ideas:

Encouraging traffic to stick to 30mph through Coldwaltham and Watersfield, through simple, cost-effective infrastructure improvements –plus a new 20mph limit by St James’s School at drop-off and pick-up times
Reducing the A29 speed limit from 60 mph to 40 mph between Pulborough and Coldwaltham – slowing traffic before it reaches Coldwaltham and through Hardham
Improving the footway between Watersfield and Pulborough, making it a mixed-use walkway/cycleway, encouraging more active travel

Your voice counts – thank you!
The Coldwaltham A29 Road Improvement Committee

You can email us at ca29ric@gmail.com for a paper copy of the survey
Paper copies also available at Sandham Hall and The Labouring Man

A tribute to our retiring Postman.

Filed Under: Parish News | Posted on 4th February 2023 | 0 Comments

Many of you will now recall that our long-standing Postman “Dave” has not been on duty for some time. Our lovely Dave took early retirement due to a back injury leaving us without the chance to thank him for his three decades of excellent service and kindness.

From Monday, 6 February, there will be a book in the Post Office (in the Coffee Shop on Thursdays) for messages, letters and cards, together with a shoe box should anyone wish to make a donation.

The collection will close on Monday, 27th February; aiming for a presentation on 1st March – St David’s Day!

(Not to suggest he’s saintly, merely following a custom of giving gifts on a person’s saint’s day.)

A29 Closed at Swan Bridge overnight on 4th Nov 8pm – 5th Nov 6am

Filed Under: County or District Information, Parish News | Posted on 28th October 2022 | 0 Comments

Please be aware that the A29 will be closed at Swan Bridge for repairs, from 8pm on 4th Nov to 6am on 5th Nov.

Planning Application at Lodge Hill Centre – SDNP/21/00627/OUT

Filed Under: Information Items, Parish News | Posted on 23rd February 2021 | 0 Comments

Every once in a while, our Parish faces some new development that raises a range of conflicting responses from many different angles. With this note, we want to bring to your attention the need to check the SDNP Planning Portal (Click Here) .

You will all be aware that recent discussions about possible plans to develop the area south of Brookview, by Barlavington Estate have brought to the surface other suggested sites for various levels of housing development. This week we have been made aware that a planning application has appeared on the SDNP Planning Portal for land on the south side of Waltham Park Road. It appears to be for 16 houses, but we are not sure of the detail of this, as yet, in terms of any housing ‘mix’. The reference is SDNP/21/00627/OUT.

The Parish Council will produce its own response to this, and we urge you to communicate your views – as briefly as possible – to the Parish Clerk via our website, as soon as possible. Please feel free to make your own responses within the Consultation process on the SDNP Planning Portal. Please ensure you make your responses within the time limit indicated by the SDNP.

During this lockdown period, it is clearly not appropriate to set up a Parish face-to-face meeting to hear your views, so please watch for emails that may indicate/propose an open “Zoom” meeting to hear all your views. In addition, please pass this note and information on to your neighbours and friends, in case they are not e-mail connected. It is also possible to leave a written response in an envelope with the SMVH Sub-Post office and it will be picked up by the Parish Council.

Coldwaltham Parish Council

23rd Feb 2021

Barlavington Estates – Estate Plan Consultation

Filed Under: Information Items, Parish News, SDNPA | Posted on 13th January 2021 | 0 Comments

From Sebastian Anstruther, Barlavington Estates, who has asked the Parish Council to share this information with parishioners and residents.

“Barlavington Estate has been working on a Whole Estate Plan for the past 12 months and they would like to share some of their thinking with local residents. Asking for any feedback that residents might want to offer prior to producing the plan for review and consideration by the National Park Authority.

In a world without Covid-19 they would have set up an exhibition in a local village hall and invited residents of Coldwaltham to attend. Clearly that is not going to be possible so instead they have arranged to post this information online. The information is being hosted by their consultants, Rural Solutions, on a private part of their website. Barlavington Estate plan for the information (and associated feedback form) to be available for a six-week period, starting from 11^th January.

To access the information please use the url https://ruralsolutions.co.uk/barlavington-estate/

You will be able to view a range of information about the Estate, their work, and the ideas they hope to include in the Whole Estate Plan. Residents will also be able to let Barlavington Estate have comments via the feedback form.

Once this period of online engagement is complete, they will then move towards completing their Whole Estate Plan and submitting it to the South Downs National Park Authority for their review.”

You can find out more about that process via the South Downs National Park website here.

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