Update on Sailing Club track

The Parish Council has been sent documentation for our information by the Planning Inspectorate, who are adjudicating on the status of the track owned by the Sailing Club that runs beside Piddinghoe Pond, from the Street to the riverbank. Following an application from the Rambler’s Association, it was decided a couple of years ago that…

Village Hall plans

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…

Ring out the old, ring in the new

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…

Trick or Treat

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)