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Community Transport Sussex (CTS) is conducting a survey to determine the need for public transport in Bolney, with the secondary purpose of seeing if a Community Transport Scheme would be of benefit to, and could be supported by, Bolney residents.

The survey will remain open until the end of May and we would like as many residents as possible to complete it, regardless of whether you currently use public transport. It will only take a couple of minutes to fill out via this link: Bolney Transport Survey

Thank you.

One of our local PCSOs, Chelsea Greenfield, will be present at the Bolney market at the Rawson Hall on Saturday 27 May 2023 from 10.00 am until midday.

Come and meet her to discuss any local policing issues of concern, or obtain guidance and advice. 

Mid Sussex Neighbourhood Policing Team | West Sussex Division | Sussex Police Haywards Heath Police Station | 1b Bolnore Road | Haywards Heath | RH16 4BL
Tel No: 101

South East water has set up a special Community Fund for charities in the Mid Sussex area.

As you may remember, during December we experienced a high level of leaks and bursts in the area caused by the rapid freeze / thaw that took place following the cold weather.

Those customers worst affected were compensated direct, but South East Water also appreciate the impact this had on the wider community.

Therefore, they have set up a £50,000 Community Fund to benefit charities in the area and are now inviting applications.

All they are asking is that in 100 words (or less) registered charities tell them how a grant of up to £2,000 would benefit them – it’s as simple as that.

The closing date is 5pm on Sunday 14 May.

Applications will be judged by a panel led by Mims Davies MP and include representatives from South East Water.

Successful charities will be notified week commencing 5 June, and invited to a short awards ceremony towards the end of June.

Click here to apply!

Mid Sussex District Council have now published all the comments received on the draft District Plan. Policy DPH:18: Land at Foxhole Farm received 267 comments, the highest of any of the smaller sites proposed for allocation. Thank you to everyone in the community who took the time to comment on this site.

Please click here to be re-directed to the page if you would like to view the comments which include the full response from Bolney Parish Council along with the appendices.

The good news is that the installation phase of this project is well underway!

You may have seen notices around the village saying there will be rolling 24 hour road closures to allow for work by the contractors. Residents have understandably been worried that they will not be able to access their properties or that the whole village will be gridlocked. We have been reassured by Openreach that not everything will be closed at once. Access will remain possible for residents and their deliveries; they will either be able to enter the road from the other end or the engineers will pack away their work to allow residents to pass. On rare occasions a specific point may remain closed overnight but the work will be packed away to allow access to properties.

This work is installing the fibre lines to the distribution points in the roads at the north end of the village. A premises distribution point is their nearest telegraph pole or Openreach manhole. The fibre line from there to the building is only installed when the FTTP service is ordered.

Our project team has not been told where work is going on, apart from when the work requires road closures. The most recent update just told us that they are working towards a completion date of the end of April. Openreach’s contractors will be working to install the fibre in many areas of the parish and also the part of Hickstead close to the A23/A2300 junction during March and April.

We have also been assured that the vouchers will be rolled over and remain valid until the system is up and running.

The feedback from those in the Warninglid project is that it can take a few weeks for an individual’s fibre line to be installed once an order has been placed with an internet service provider (ISP) of your choice (e.g. BT, Sky, EE, Zen, etc.). Not all ISPs offer full fibre contracts. (Superfast broadband is fibre to the cabinet and is not full fibre or fttp or ultrafast broadband).

It is possible to find out most ISP’s that do offer full fibre here on comparison sites by pretending that you live in one of the Bolney postcodes that already has full fibre. However some like Zen do not appear on them. These postcodes have fttp:
RH17 5QZ
RH17 5RY

If you need any further information, you can contact the village project team at fttp@bolney.com.

Thank you to Councillor Martin Wood for doing a lone litter pick in Crossways on Saturday morning, following a complaint from a parishioner about the amount of litter there. A superb effort!

Thank you to all those who turned up to help the Bolney Volunteers with another litter pick on Saturday.

As you can see from the photos, a huge amount of litter was collected. However, the collection was somewhat spoilt by the discovery of over 150 small Waitrose freezer bags containing human faeces located along the tree line between The Bolney Stage pub and Jeremys Corner petrol station.

There are often lorries parked in this area and we would request that everyone keeps a look out for suspicious behaviour in this area to try and bring an end to this disgusting behaviour. The police have also been informed.

The Parish Council has received queries about the new fencing that is being installed along footpath 18Bo that runs from Bolney School, north across the field to Ryecroft Road.

The site manager at Riverdale has confirmed that they are moving the security fencing that was erected prior to starting work on the site. Having built the foundations of the houses there it has become apparent that the fence has not been erected to allow room to form the final contours of the ground in that location, or erect scaffolding. The boundary line is in the centre line of the hedge shown in the photo below rather than the security fence line, and the minimum Public Right of Way width on the field edge is 1.5 m. They are setting up the new security fence line at 2.0 m from the face of the hedge to still maintain the Public Right of Way.  The fence currently being erected is still only a temporary security fence, but will be closer to the finished line of the permanent fence that will be erected once the houses in that area have been completed.

West Sussex County Council is continuing to improve its’ online reporting process for problems with roads and pavements. They have new online forms available via the following link:

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/make-an-enquiry-or-report-a-problem-with-a-road-or-pavement/
These new forms have enhanced mapping capabilities and are mobile friendly for reporting defects when out and about. They have classified and grouped the types of defect reports previously reported via ‘Love West Sussex’ and created separate landing pages on the website for the following: Flooding, blocked rains and gullies; Road and cycle path faults (including potholes); Pavement and verges; Trees, hedges, weeds and grass and Obstructions on the road, pavement or cycle path. Reports are automatically loaded into the Highways Case Management System (known as ‘Confirm’) and then assigned to the right
team. Customers who historically reported via Love West Sussex are being advised of change in process and redirected to the correct e-form for the issue being reported.
The two reporting systems will be run in parallel for a few months through to Spring 2023 to support transition. Then at a date to be confirmed in the New Year, they will cease to subscribe and will end the
contract with ‘Love West Sussex’.

Reminder: WSCC is not responsible for the management of the following issues which need to be reported to Mid Sussex District Council: parking, fly tipping, litter or street cleaning, non-highway related graffiti and bus shelters.