Please join Piddinghoe’s litter-picking team for THE ANNUAL C7 SPRING CLEAN! Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 Feb. Meet at 10 am opposite Byways at the south end of the village. Residents from all the villages along the C7 Lewes-Newhaven Road will be taking part in this mass litter pick. Extra pairs of hands will enable…
The Safer C7 Project team writes: The recent serious accident near Southease has highlighted yet again the need for safety improvements on the C7. The Safer C7 Project raised the funds needed to commission Philip Jones Associates (PJA) to produce a detailed and costed design plan to reduce speed and improve safety on the C7.…
Piddinghoe Village Hall Committee has succeeded in raising the funds required for the work to refurbish the village hall to start on site in the first week of January 2025. Huge thanks are due to our parishioners and supporters, in particular to the Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Bernard…
PUBLIC PRESENTATION, 7 to 7:30pm, TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2024 The South Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) has commissioned Sustrans to draw up potential designs for the next, final phase of the Egrets Way. This ‘Phase 7’ is the missing link between the northern junction of Piddinghoe with the C7 and Deans Farm. Most of the…
In August the parish council consulted Piddinghoe households about covering the funding shortfall for the refurbishment of the village hall from the council tax precept. We concluded that there was insufficient support for that proposal and decided not to take it any further. However it was evident from the consultation exercise that there is strong…
The report on the consultation on raising the parish precept to cover a funding shortfall for the village hall refurbishment project is available here. It concludes that the balance of opinion in the parish does not support such a plan of action.
An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Parish Council has been called for Tuesday 13 August to decide whether to raise council tax to cover the funding shortfall for the village hall refurbishment. The Village Hall Management Committee has so far raised two-thirds of the £200,000 required for the refurbishment project, leaving some £67,000 to find.…
The draft report of the Safer C7 Project was presented on 17 June to an advisory group of parish councils and other funding stakeholders. This initial draft, by specialist transport planning, urban design and engineering consultants PJA, is available here. As well as traffic data, it includes an extensive analysis of the context, role…
The Parish Council has published its Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR) for the year ending 31 March 2024. Under the Notice of Public Rights, from 3 June to 12 July 2024 any person interested may inspect and make copies of the AGAR, the accounting records for the financial year to which it relates and…
The Safer C7 Project reports as follows: Project consultants, Philip Jones Associates (PJA), are now completing their baseline assessment of the C7, and are in the process of formulating a longlist of recommendations, aiming to make the road safer for all its users. The C7 is a corridor dominated by fast flowing traffic, where the…