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Yapton News JANUARY 2021 Issue No. 105 Yapton Parish Council Parish Council Information Chairman The Clerk of the Council (Andrew Gardiner) Stephen Haymes, is currently working from home. Face to Woodlands Park House, face contact is limited but the Clerk can be Main Road, Yapton, BN18 0EZ contacted by phone: 01243 859141 Tel: 01243 551475 or by e-mail; [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Please also visit the Parish Council’s website at Vice-Chairman www.yaptonpc.gov.uk Peter Dunkley, if you need more information 14 Navigation Drive, Yapton, BN18 0FS Tel: 07766 221550 Email: [email protected] Yapton’s PCSO is Natalie Shrimpton. Members Natalie can be contacted, and Derek Ambler, the same for all Sussex Police non-emergencies matters by dialing 101 11 Graham Road, Yapton, BN18 0JT or e-mailing [email protected]. Tel: 01243 551156 uk or reporting online. Email: [email protected] Your local Police and Community Support Officer is no Peter Dunkley, longer available at the Parish Council Office. 14 Navigation Drive, Yapton, BN18 0FS Tel: 07766 221550 Email: [email protected] Philippa Greenan, 35 Tack Lee Road, Yapton, BN18 0HB Monthly Meetings Update Email: [email protected] Although we are unable to continue publicly there is activity behind the Graham Holden, scenes. Our hoped for re-start to our monthly get togethers is still on with the Tel: 07763 482420 guided tour around Chichester with our long-time friend, Paul Ulson as guide, in May. Members will be kept informed personally while public notices will Email: [email protected] appear around the village and on our web-site. Vicky Newman, You are all aware of the situation regarding Covid-19 so all I need to say is Tel: 01243 551207 please be careful and take all precautions to keep safe Email: [email protected] Allen Misselbrook Tel: 01243 552715 Email: [email protected] Web-site www.yaptonhistory.org.uk Amanda Worne, Tel: 07955 723232 Email: [email protected] District Councillors: The Parish Council currently has 3 vacancies Henry Jones, Committees: 6 Mill View Road, Yapton, Nr Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 0JL E-mail: [email protected] Allotments Vacant, (Michael Caiger has been appointed to oversee Amanda Worne, and manage the Allotments. Tel: 01243 552435) 21 Giles Close, Yapton, Nr Arundel, West Sussex BN18 0LG Emergency & Resilience E-mail: [email protected] Philippa Greenan, Graham Holden, Amanda Worne, 1 vacant place County Councillors: Planning Derek Ambler, Peter Dunkley, Graham Holden, Middleton division: Jacky Pendleton, Oakdene House, Mrs Vicky Newman, Amanda Worne 44 Southdean Drive, Middleton-on-Sea, PO22 7TB Playing Field Email [email protected] Peter Dunkley, 1 vacant place Tel 01243 585979 Staffing Stephen Haymes, Peter Dunkley, 1 vacant place Felpham division: Vacant Vacancies for Parish Councillors Following the death of Anthony Kendall, and the resignation of Michael Pickthall for personal reasons, the Parish Council has a vacancy for three Parish Councillors. The Parish Council is looking for suitably qualified and talented local people to fill these vacancies by co-opting new members without the need for a local election. Do you have skills and knowledge that could help our local community? Or just an interest in village life. lf so, you may be just the type of person we need. Please contact the Chairman (Stephen Haymes) on 01243 551475 or the Clerk of the Council (Andrew Gardiner) on 01243 859141 or by e-mail; Clerk@ yaptonpc.gov.uk if you need more information or wish to discuss the co-option process. Please see the Parish Council’s website for details on how to apply and for an Application Form which can be downloaded for completion and return to the Clerk by the closing date for receipt of applications of the 22nd February 2021. Interviews for prospective candidates are likely to be held by the full Parish Council in early March 2021. Andrew Gardiner Clerk of the Council 18th January 2021 3 YourYapton News JANUARY 2021 | Issue 105 As I write this piece for the January edition of the or the Chairman of the Parish Council whose Yapton News we are usually looking forward to contact details can be also be found on page 3. the lovely spring weather and the lighter evenings. This all seems a long way off at the moment with I can’t believe that a year ago we published the the dark and cold nights and the dreary days of 100th edition of the Yapton News. It is sad to winter are truly upon us. note that we have had a gap in the unbroken run of publications during 2020 with the May Who would have thought that our Christmases edition not being published due to the National would have been so disrupted and in a few Lockdown. short days we would be back into a prolonged lockdown. In the true spirit of community service, As is usual at this time of the year we are looking Pippa Greenan, one of the Parish Councillors, forward, and I have been thinking about ways to who stepped up during the first lockdown, and update and improve the magazine, particularly quickly set up a local support group and called on looking at the content, and who are the main the local community for volunteers living in the contributors to the magazine. New ideas, pictures Village to get involved. In the face of the latest and articles are always welcome, you can send lockdown, a similar network of support to local them to me by post or e-mail. If you belong residents has been reconvened. to a group or organisation that is currently not mentioned in Yapton News, then please do let Pippa has continued to use the social media me know. I want to help the people of Yapton, page for the local villages, “Yapton Ford and through the medium of the Yapton News, feel Climping Help and Support” (Facebook), so that proud of their village and the local community in residents and non-resident family members can which they live. May I publicly send a huge thank join on request and be a portal to communicate you to all of the regular contributors to the Yapton with businesses that could help customers who News and to the willing band of people who needed it, using volunteer support. It also meant distribute just over 1,900 copies of the magazine that people outside the area could ask for help to all households in Yapton, six times a year! I for village residents. Volunteers have offered am always looking for befriending and other support through the social volunteers to spread the media site. burden of the delivery of each edition, so please The Parish Council has been continuing to let me know if you feel advertise for the two current parish councillor you may be able to help. vacancies. Recently, another resignation has been received thus creating a further vacancy, bringing All best wishes for 2021 the total to three. The Parish Council has decided – keep well and safe over to seek more applications to try and fill these the coming weeks. three vacant positions. This recruitment process has been restarted and full details can be found in Andrew Gardiner the advert on page 3 of this edition. If you would Email: [email protected] like further information please speak to the Clerk Published by Yapton Parish Council Cover picture - The Play area in Navigation Drive, Yapton by Andy Faulkner 4 Yapton’s Neighbourhood Plan Revision - BY ANDY FAULKNER- Everyone will be more than aware of the were in favour of the plan. When first made numerous fields being fenced off and prepared and without an adopted Arun Local Plan the for the many consented housing schemes Yapton Neighbourhood Plan played a strong around the village. The question asked of the role in supporting our community and built Parish is how can these developments be environment in planning terms. Arun’s Local controlled or even prevented, now and into Plan was finally adopted in 2018 which the future. The answer lies in the planning triggered a need to update and modify the process; this has a presumption in favour YNP to ensure that when development of sustainable development, meaning that of whatever scale is considered, Yapton’s proposed developments should be granted community’s wishes will be heard through an planning permission unless their adverse updated Neighbourhood Plan. impacts “significantly and demonstrably” In conjunction with the Parish Council, outweigh their benefits in planning terms. Yapton’s Neighbourhood Planning Group Yapton’s original Neighbourhood Plan have updated and modified the YNP for the was ‘Made’ by Arun District Council on 5 period from 2018 to 2031 to reflect both November 2014 and covered the period from new National and Local planning policy as well 2014 to 2029. This followed a referendum as reflecting the primary concerns residents held on Thursday 23 October 2014 which have voiced over the recent years regarding indicated that 94.45% of those who voted planning proposals within the Parish. Policy E8 – Hoe Lane Flansham Continued Overleaf 5 > NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN REVISION In due course, the Modified Plan will be finalised and submitted for examination alongside a Basic Conditions Statement and a Consultation Statement, in accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended). There are two primary reasons for the Parish Council proposing to make modifications. Firstly, the current YNP is almost six years old which significantly reduces its weight in planning terms.