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Mid Sussex District Council has reviewed the provision of the Mobile Waste Collections. This review, coupled with the guidance from Government on social distancing as the coronavirus pandemic continues, has led to the recommendation that they cease provision of Mobile Civic Amenity Sites with immediate effect. This recommendation was accepted by the elected members. 

The decision to cease provision of this service is supported by the following information:

• Mobile Civic Amenity collections do not allow for waste to be kept separate and recycled or reused; therefore, not meeting the objectives of the waste hierarchy which was incorporated into UK law via the Waste Regulations (England and Wales) 2012. 

• The waste collected at the Mobile Civic Amenity Site can be removed from households using other services; including our bulky waste service and our garden waste collection service. 

• There are two Household Waste Recycling Sites (HWRS) within Mid Sussex, where residents can also dispose of any additional waste items. Enforcing social distancing measures at temporary sites is difficult and we need to ensure the services we provide can be controlled to support Government guidance. This is not possible with the Mobile Civic Amenity Sites. 

The Parish Council is very disappointed with this news having funded the cost of this ourselves and seen the benefit it has been to local residents but unfortunately the decision has been made and our collection due on 4th October will not now be going ahead.

The links below provide more information on the additional services available for residents to dispose of their waste:

Bulky waste service: https://www.midsussex.gov.uk/waste-recycling/bulky-electrical-household-waste/

Garden waste service: https://www.midsussex.gov.uk/waste-recycling/garden-waste/

Household Waste Recycling Sites: https://www.midsussex.gov.uk/waste-recycling/household-waste-recycling-sites/

Please note that we’re back to the original opening hours advertised for the Post Office;

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 10.00 am to 1.30 pm. 

Hoping this is the final change!

Lord Renton of Mount Harry, previously Sir Tim Renton who was the M.P. for Mid Sussex for many years before retiring has died on the 25th of August.
He was a much respected constituency M.P.

A-One+ on behalf of Highways England will be carrying out a full refurbishment to the A23 Flyover deck. The works will include full resurfacing of the deck and approaches, re-waterproofing of the deck, reinstatement of concrete defects to the flyover footways and central reservation.

In order to carry out these works as efficiently and safely as possible, the works will be carried out utilising overnight lane and full weekend carriageway closures between 8pm and 6am from Thursday 17 September 2020 and Tuesday 29 September 2020 and are weather dependent.
The weekends of Friday 2 October to Monday 5 October and Friday 9 October to Monday 2 October may be used as contingencies due to any unforeseen circumstances.

Full details of the dates and diverted routes are on the attached newsletter.

Bolney Parish Council would like to extend thanks to the Rampion Fund at Sussex Community Foundation for a grant of £7,230 to purchase a new Grit Spreader, Lawnmower and hi-visibility clothing for the Bolney Volunteers to use.

Rampion and Sussex Community Foundation have distributed £1,502,458.53 in grants from the community fund set up by the offshore windfarm since it began in 2018. Grants have been awarded to 114 groups from across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.
Jennifer Donn, JV Governance and Stakeholder Manager for the Rampion Offshore Windfarm, said “The Rampion Fund continues to support an exciting array of projects from a diverse range of community groups. We are delighted to have awarded a further 18 grants to groups in the recent spring round. The fund has a specific environmental appeal, drawing innovative project bids including for sustainable food production and gardening and recycling schemes. We would like to continue encouraging groups to apply to the fund.”

The Rampion Fund is designed to support local organisations, funding projects with a particular focus on the environment, ecology, climate change and energy. It also funds projects aiming to improve community facilities, including projects designed for renewable energy generation and energy conservation.
Kevin Richmond, CEO at Sussex Community Foundation, said “After another successful round of Rampion awards, we are delighted to support some great community projects. Working with Rampion has enabled us to implement our commitment to addressing climate change through our grant making and becoming more sustainable as an organisation.

The Rampion Fund will open for the next round of applications in spring 2021. For more information, visit www.sussexgiving.org.uk/rampion or call 01273 409 440.

For all updates on the Parish Council’s faster broadband project, please go to https://www.bolney.com/ click on the menu and the link to ‘Faster Broadband for all’ can be found under ‘Parish Council’

We’ve restored normal tap water supplies to all customers affected by supply problems this week.

Yesterday, we supplied 575 million litres of water – close to our average of 540 million litres per day and far lower than last Friday’s record demand of 696 million litres. Our teams worked 24/7 to restore supplies, but we sincerely apologise to those customers who had no water, intermittent supplies or low tap water pressure.  Throughout this incident, we hand-delivered more than 45,000 bottles of water to more than 2,000 customers on our Priority Services Register, managed up to seven bottled water stations and provided bowsers of water for livestock holders. Now that supplies are back on, our bottled water stations have closed and we are making sure they are left clean and tidy. Thank you to those areas that helped us locate and manage the stations. Customers may notice that their water is cloudy or discoloured initially. This is normal after an interruption to water supply and is caused by air in the system, as well as naturally-occurring deposits of iron and manganese. Customers should run their cold kitchen tap slowly until the water clears. We are sorry that a number of customers in your area did not receive the reliable water supply they should expect and will be compensating those affected. We’re now looking at compensation for those customers affected and will be writing to them shortly. Any compensation for households affected will be applied to their account automatically, they do not need to do anything to claim. Please be assured that we will be conducting a detailed review of this recent incident and will contact you in due course about how to provide your feedback, both what needs improving, but also what worked well. We will also be engaging with those customers impacted to gain their perspective to help with future planning. Thank you very much for your ongoing support.

Much has happened since June to re-start airline operations as we all continue to grapple with the challenges of living and working through the ongoing pandemic. My priorities as CEO continue to be protecting the health and safety of all our staff and our passengers as well as
protecting the business.
Following the restart of EasyJet flights in June we have worked alongside our airline partners to support rebuilding of their operations. This means that we have now also resumed our normal 24-hour operations. We have fourteen airlines flying from Gatwick to 98 destinations in 39 countries,
including many popular short haul summer holiday destinations. We were delighted to see British Airways re-start their long-haul routes to the Caribbean, with Air Transat and WestJet adding flights to Canada. We expect to see more airlines and destinations to be added in the coming weeks and months.
We have worked closely with Government to secure the introduction of travel corridors so that passengers can travel without having to self-isolate on return to the UK. The travel corridors are reviewed weekly and therefore we recommend anyone planning to travel checks
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-corridors for the latest government advice.
The removal of Spain from the Government travel corridor list has also been a huge blow for Gatwick as a business. Even though we are starting to see the beginning of small green shoots of recovery demand is still down considerably compared to this time last year and we want to preserve jobs
alongside offering a first-rate passenger experience in this new COVID-19 world. With all the health measures we have put in place across the airport we believe consumer confidence will continue to grow in the coming months.
We continue to liaise closely with the Local Authorities and other stakeholders in the local community to ensure that we all pull together to rebuild operations at Gatwick, kick-start the local economy and protect jobs across the region.
I will continue to provide updates on Gatwick’s operations in the coming months. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact community@gatwickairport.com.
Your faithfully

Stewart Wingate
Chief Executive Officer, Gatwick Airport