The Village Hall Management Committee (VHMC) have finalised improvement plans (click here) to be submitted for planning consent. The aim is to create a brighter, bigger community space, more energy efficient, providing better access, with improved kitchen and storage facilities and toilets that can be reached separately from the hall itself when necessary. The existing…
After 300 years the church bells at St John’s Piddinghoe are going to be renovated, retuned and restored! Their sound has rung out through wars, upheavals, pandemics and peace, calling our community to worship, births, marriages and mourning. We’re fortunate that the National Heritage Lottery Fund, a local resident and other fundraising, has enabled us…
If you are happy for children from the village to call on the evening of Halloween please place a pumpkin, with or without a scary face, at your front door or gate. The rule for the kids is – no pumpkin, no trick or treating! (Thanks to the VHMC for this suggestion)
As you may be aware, the parish council recently commissioned tree surgeons to clear dead elms, brambles and scrub on part of the Hoe riverside. In addition to removing the dead elms, we also wanted to make space for planting some of the 100-plus saplings granted to us by the Woodland Trust under the auspices…
The Safer C7 Project reports as follows: You may have been wondering what is happening with the Safer C7 Project, following the survey of the 785 households who live along the C7 in June 2021. Work has been going on behind the scenes. The Safer C7 Project is now a fully constituted body. It is…
At the Annual Parish Meeting in May, to which all parishioners were invited, parking in the village was identified as the issue of most pressing concern. Accordingly two parish councillors volunteered to look further into the matter with a view to identifying problems and suggesting ways in which the Parish Council might help alleviate them. They…
On 23 September 2022 the Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club made the following important announcement: ‘It is with regret that following a negative water quality report on Piddinghoe that we have no option other than to suspend all water-based activities until further notice due to the high levels of Blue Green Algae. Cyanobacteria or ‘blue-green algae’, can…
Here are some key points from the meeting of the Parish Council held on 13 September 2022. The full draft minutes will be posted both on the website and in The Villager in due course. Following the consultation over the summer we resolved that in order to support biodiversity the Church Bank area should not…
The latest update on the water quality at Piddiingjhoe Lake from the Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club includes the following advice: Piddinghoe pond was closed on 23rd August due to the many fish deaths that occurred from a rapid decline in the level of oxygen in the water due to the long heatwave. Oxygenating pumps had…
The Commodore of Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club has made the following announcement: ‘Unfortunately, following the extremely dry weather and sudden downpour the health of Piddinghoe Lake is at an all-time low, lots of the fish are dying, the Environment Agency is pumping air into the water and there is a strong smell of sewage…