Previously Known As Yapton News & Views MAY 2019 Issue No 96
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Yapton News Previously known as Yapton News & Views MAY 2019 Issue No 96 Parish Council YAPTON PARISH COUNCIL Information The Parish Office is open Chairman Stephen Haymes, Woodlands Park House, on a Monday, Wednesday Main Road, Yapton, BN18 0EZ and Thursday [Tel: 01243 551475] Email: [email protected] Room 4, Upstairs Vice-Chairman Michael Pickthall, 2 Tack Lee Road, Yapton, BN18 0HB Yapton and Ford Village Hall [Tel: 01243 542442] (rear entrance) Email: [email protected] 9.30AM TO 12.30PM Members Derek Ambler, 11 Graham Road, Yapton, BN18 0JT [Tel: 01243 551156] Email: [email protected] Anthony Kendall, 15 Cherry Avenue, Yapton, BN18 0LB [Tel: 01243 552033] Email: [email protected] Doug Maw, 23 The Pines, Yapton, BN18 0LB [Tel: Your local Police and Community 01243 551752] Support Officer will no longer be Email: [email protected] available at the Parish Council Office Vicky Newman, [Tel: 01243 551207] To contact Sussex Police for Email: [email protected] non-emergencies dial 101 Clerk of the Council or e-mail: [email protected] Andrew Gardiner, 38 Ruskin Avenue, North Bersted, or report online Bognor Regis, PO21 5BW [Tel: 01243 859141] email: [email protected] web: www.yaptonpc.gov.uk Committees ALLOTMENTS Anthony Kendall Monday June 3rd (Michael Caiger has been appointed to oversee and The History of Bognor Public Houses manage the Allotments. Tel: 01243 552435 An Illustrated talk by Sylvia Endacott EMERGENCY & RESILIENCE Monday July 1st To be filled at the July meeting of the Council Forgotten Littlehampton An Illustrated talk by Juliet Thomas PLANNING Derek Ambler, Peter Dunkley, Tony Kendall, Yapton and Ford Local History Group meet on the first Monday of the month except for May and August in the Club Room at Yapton and Doug Maw, Mrs Vicky Newman Ford Village Hall at 7.30pm PLAYING FIELD All are welcome Peter Dunkley, Michael Pickthall Non-members Admission £3.00 STAFFING Stephen Haymes, Peter Dunkley, Michael Pickthall District Councillors: Henry Jones, 6 Mill View Road, Yapton, Nr Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 0JL E-mail: [email protected] Amanda Worne, 21 Giles Close, Yapton, Nr Arundel, West Sussex BN18 0LG E-mail: [email protected] County Councillors: Middleton division: Jacky Pendleton, Oakdene House, 44 Southdean Drive, Middleton-on-Sea, PO22 7TB Email [email protected] Tel 01243 585979 Felpham division: Hillary Flynn, 2 Flansham Business Centre, Hoe Lane, Flansham, Chairman: Mr. A.K. Misselbrook, “Walene”, Bilsham Road, Yapton, Arundel, West Sussex, BN18 0JN. Tel: 01243 552715 Secretary: A. Hollis,Bognor 18 Briar Close, Yapton, Regis Arundel, West PO22 Sussex, BN18 08NJES. Tel: 01 243 551683Email [email protected] Tel 01243 825757 YourYapton News Published by Yapton Parish Council MAY 2019 Issue 95 A very warm welcome to (compared to 60 in the previous year). The majority the May 2019 edition of of these were relatively straightforward household your Yapton News. As I am applications, but as in the previous year a number writing this at the beginning of major applications were submitted on behalf of of May the temperatures developers. outside are more like a cool autumn day and it’s quite breezy – not good growing As usual as this time of the year, and a reminder weather I am led to believe of better weather to come, hopefully, and having – let’s hope that Summer seen various reports and advertisements of things weather and warmer days and nights are on their happening in the village over the coming weeks, way. One good thing about this time of the year is we hope that the good weather will continue to the ever extending daylight hours, no excuse for not help make these events a success. But what makes being able to go for that walk in the evening or get a successful event? I hope that the efforts of the some of those outstanding jobs done in the garden. organisers will be rewarded by a good turnout from villagers and their families and friends to support the many and varied activities being planned over I am delighted to report that we had 7 local the coming weeks. people put themselves forward for election to the Parish Council, including 6 existing councillors and one new person. This meant no election was Here are some of the events that I am aware of: needed on the 2nd May and we now have to find July 13th Strawberry Tea Bonanza - Strawberry a further 3 people to fill the remaining seats on the Scones, Homemade cakes, Tea/Coffee, Soft Parish Council. Please see the advert outlining the Drinks, Live Music, Tombola, Plant stall, Breads/ procedure to be followed to fill these 3 seats. It is Cakes, Preserves, Children’s Play table - Cottage likely that interviews will be held nearer to the end Gardeners’ Society of June so that the new co-opted councillors can take up their place at the Parish Council meeting on July 22nd to July 26th Holiday Club Marquee – the 13th July. Yapton Free Church Aug 11th Annual Flower Show/Summer Fair – Included in this edition of the Yapton News, is Cottage Gardeners’ Society the Chairman’s Report on the work of the Parish October 10th – 13th Coles Fair – Fireworks on the Council over the past year which is reproduced 12th – Coles Fair in full. It’s a timely reminder for me of the wide variety of activities and functions which the Council is involved with over the year. One of the primary I am sure there will be others that I am not aware of, local functions of the Council is the review of all and I try to keep the diary up to date on the Parish Planning Applications for the parish which have Council Website. If any local club or organisation has been submitted to Arun District Council, as the local an event they wish to advertise free of charge then Planning Authority, and on which the Parish Council please contact me on [email protected] is given the opportunity to comment. The report indicates that fewer applications Andrew Gardiner were received in the past year, some 52 in total Editor. [email protected] Cover: Along Hoe Lane near the duck pond by Andy Faulkner 3 Parish of Yapton - Annual Parish Meeting CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2018/2019 INTRODUCTION This report covers the twelve months period Your Council has representatives on outside since the last Annual Parish Meeting on 14th May bodies which oversee and manage various 2018. It is my twelfth report to you as Chairman functions and activities impacting on the local of the Parish Council. area. A key role, which is discussed later, is the Council’s role in the planning function, The Parish Council is composed of 10 members. particularly with regard to the vetting of all The last scheduled Parish Council elections took planning applications for the parish. place in May 2015. In November 2018, Mr Chris Sprules resigned from the Parish Council, and The Council also maintains a website www. it was decided not to fill the vacancy until the yaptonpc.gov.uk which contains information next scheduled elections due to take place about the Parish, the Council and its meetings. in May 2019. Over the last 12 months there have The Council also publishes, after each Parish been six meetings of the full Parish Council and Council meeting, the Yapton News, a bi-monthly five meetings of the Planning Committee. At the magazine for all residents, which not only includes Annual Meeting of the Parish Council in May information about the Parish Council's activities 2018, I was re-elected as Chairman with Michael but also includes, amongst other things, reports Pickthall being re-elected as Vice-Chairman. from clubs and organisations which operate in the village. Yapton News is delivered free of Yapton is represented at the County Council by charge, by a team of volunteers and councillors, two members, Jacky Pendleton and Hilary Flynn to nearly 1900 households in the parish. who were elected in May 2017, for a four-year term, to represent the Middleton Division (which Since March 2018, the Parish Council has operated includes Yapton) and Felpham Division (which its own Social Media accounts on Facebook includes Hoe Lane, Flansham) respectively. The and Twitter. One of our Councillors’ operates the accounts in conjunction with the Clerk, four-yearly cycle of District and Parish Council and over the past year we have been regularly elections were held on the 2nd May 2019 to posting information on Facebook and Twitter, elect representatives for the Yapton ward on the and also monitoring the sites and responding District Council, and to fill the 10 seats on the to any queries or requests posted by residents. Parish Council. However, as only 7 nominations ............................................................. were received for the 10 seats on the Parish Council, these candidates were elected without RECREATIONAL the need for an election. The remaining 3 seats FACILITIES IN YAPTON will be filled by co-option to the Parish Council. ............................................................. WHAT DO WE DO? The Parish Council has responsibility for and maintains the King George V Playing Field on Main Road, the two village car parks, the skate park, the children’s play area, a range of outdoor exercise equipment, the all-purpose floodlit sports enclosure and adjacent youth shelter, the picnic tables and seats on the playing field, the litter collection service, an allotments site at Cinders Lane, bus shelters, as well as some street lighting and financial support for the village hall and to voluntary organisations.