NORTH PORTSLADE COMMUNITY NEWS Produced and delivered free by volunteers to over 6,000 local homes and businesses throughout Portslade Issue No. 143 APRIL / MAY 2020 A Portslade & Mile Oak Covid-19 support group has been set up - look on Facebook for further details. Information boards now in place Following news that the ruins of Portslade Old Manor are to be resurrected as a local history focal point, with information boards being written by residents, John Shepherd from the Fresh Start Charity reports 10 boards have now been in ‐ stalled. When researching and writing about the varying stages in Portslade’s history ‐ from 1066 to the current day ‐ volunteers were supported by local historians, archaeologists and the University of Sussex. The boards are the first steps in ensuring the long‐term sur ‐ vival of the Manor grounds, which it’s hoped will be opened Timeline boards. to the public this year. John says the Charity is planning a se ‐ Volunteer site guardians have also been recruited to help ries of improvements which include essential repairs to the maintain the grounds and undertake basic historic preser ‐ stonework, better access and a general revamping of the site. vation.
Portslade Families Activities Morning The Parish Centre, South Street, BN41 2LE Arts & crafts plus lots of other activities available Drinks and snacks provided £1 donation per child* suggested Wednesday 15 April, 10.30‐12.30 *children must be accompanied by a parent/carer at all times
Portslade Community Forum Portslade Community Forum (PCF) will now be meeting every three months at 7.15pm at Lifelong learner Bernard hits 100! The Village Centre, Windlesham Close, Portslade. Arty Aldridge education student Bernard Future provisional dates are: Bushby, born on 27 February 1920, celebrated Thursday 16 April 2020 th his 100 Birthday with adult learning principal Thursday 16 July 2020 Nick Fenn (pictured with Bernard) and his fellow art watercolour classmates. All residents are welcome to come to the next meeting, to learn what’s happening in our community and to discuss Bernard’s chums sang a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday and enjoyed a slice of birthday cake to the HNF and also the Portslade Action Plan. celebrate this momentous day. Nick said: “It was a real joy to celebrate with Bernard, he is real ex ‐ For more information contact Penny Gilbey ample to all in the community and a symbol for email [email protected] how lifelong learning is for everyone, whatever or call 07747 031457. age, background or aspiration.” e y b ma nts ue Eve d d DIARY OF EVENTS lle nce irus ca nav oro to C NEXT ISSUE Parish of Portslade & Mile Oak Portslade Recorded Music Copy deadline for June/July 2020 is noon VE Day Anniversary Cream Tea Society 2020 Programme on 1 May with street deliverers by 25 May . 7 April ‐ a warm welcome back to composer Adverts with payment must be in by 24 & Entertainment Paul Lewis who entertains us with recent April. If payments are not received by the recordings of his own work and that of other deadline, they will be not included in Friday 8 May, Parish Centre, composers. NPCN. Please contact Jo Fuller on 01273 Portslade Old Village 424002 to discuss further if necessary. 21 April ‐ a Russian extravanganza with the 2pm – 5pm ‐ £10 per ticket music of ‘the Mighty Handful’. Presented by So ‐ FUTURE ISSUES ciety member and Hove RMS treasurer, Gill (Available from the Parish Centre Office Copy deadline for August/September Bonner. 2020 is noon on 3 July with street deliver ‐ 01273 410044) 5 May – Korngold, the light‐hearted genius. ers by 27 July . Adverts with payment must Presented by honorary chairman, Richie be in by 26 June. ------Richardson. Copy deadline for October/November 19 May – a double bill. Pink Champagne; the 2020 is noon on 4 September with street For women who love to sing story of the Viennese operetta and Golden Vi ‐ deliverers by 28 September . Adverts with enna; music of the Strauss family and their con ‐ payment must be in by 28 August. Join us at Coastline Harmony to learn temporaries. Guest presenter, Ian Gledhill. Copy deadline for December/January popular songs in four‐part harmony in a 2 June – ‘It’s only a joke’! Scherzo, among 2021 is noon on 6 November with street fun and friendly atmosphere. We meet other things. Presented by Portslade RMS life deliverers by 30 November. Adverts with every Thursday, 7.15‐9.30 pm, at South ‐ member, Jim Hawthorne. payment must be in by 30 October. wick Christian Community Church, 16 June – AGM followed by committee choice. Copy deadline for February/March 2021 is Roman Crescent, Southwick BN42 4TY. Meetings are the first and third Tuesdays in noon on 8 January with street deliverers Email us at each month at 7.30pm, held at the Loxdale by 28 January. Adverts with payment must [email protected] English Centre (formerly the Swedish Folk High be in by 1 January. or visit School), Locks Hill, Portslade. 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5 ~ COUNCILLORS CORNER ~ COUNCILLOR I think it is true to say that Portslade has not been served well by the recycling collections over the last few months, all four Port ‐ ALAN ROBINS slade councillors have met with senior managers and it is my sin ‐ cere hope that things will improve very soon. One of the reasons Over the next few weeks I’m sure many of you given to us for the poor performance was the fact that the people will read in the local press about the council of Portslade have embraced the idea of recycling extremely en ‐ adopting City Plan Part Two. I think it’s worth thusiastically which means the truck fills up quickly and has to re ‐ a paragraph to try to explain what this means. turn to the depot to be emptied more frequently. I think this is a In March 2016 the council adopted City Plan Part One; this backhanded compliment and would certainly not like to see any sets out a vision, strategic objectives and a planning policy frame ‐ less recycling. Once again Portslade leads the way and shows the work to guide new developments across the city until 2030. City city how it should be done. Plan Part One sets out the overall amounts of new development for example, housing, employment and retail, and the broad lo ‐ And finally just a word on the Coronavirus. It’s difficult to give cations where development will take place including policies for any up to date information as this changes on a daily basis. The urban design, transport, affordable housing and sustainability. Brighton and Hove Council website updates, via the Department This framework is now part of the statutory development plans of Health and Social Care, every day at 2pm. However the over ‐ for Brighton and Hove. riding advice continues to be, wash your hands at every opportu ‐ The City Plan Part Two is to support the implementation and de ‐ nity for about 20 seconds using soap and warm running water or livery of City Plan Part One, to compliment the policy framework, hand sanitiser, when you get to work or arrive home, after you to identify and allocate additional development sites and set out blow your nose, cough or sneeze, or before eating or handling a detailed development management policy framework to assist food. Always sneeze or cough into a disposable tissue and bin it in the determination of planning applications. This may all sound immediately. All of this is very good advice at any time. like a lot of gobbledygook but it is a requirement the council has to give to the government to show it is able to run its own plan ‐ alan.robins@brighton‐hove.gov.uk ning for the next 10 years. If the council is unable to satisfy the Cllr Alan Robins, South Portslade Ward. government inspector it has a plan, it could lose control of its Chair Tourism, Development and Culture Committee planning policy and the government step in and make local plan ‐ 01273 291157 mobile 07557197591 ning decisions.
COUNCILLOR of construction traffic. Thakeham have been told that they must patch these up in the first instance but will have to replace whole PETER ATKINSON road surfaces at their own cost in the long run. The basics: potholes, streetlights, broken Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) pavements and fly tipping We now have two PCSOs in Portslade – one for each ward. Jodie As councillors, we deal with these problems Sullivan covers North Portslade and Joe Higgins is based in South on an almost daily basis, but I thought you Portslade. We look forward to working with both of them. I’ve got might find it useful to have a reminder of how to know Jodie over the last year and have been impressed with you can report a problem yourself. her willingness to listen and act on residents’ concerns. Helpfully, the council has a ‘starter’ page on its website where you Hyde Housing can choose from a list of issues. This can be found at There will be a number of you dotted throughout Portslade who https://www.brighton‐hove.gov.uk/content/council‐and‐ are tenants of Hyde Housing Association. We have been receiving democracy/feedback‐about‐council‐services/report‐a‐problem numerous complaints about their response to repair and renova ‐ If you are not on the internet, then you can phone 01273 290000, tion issues. This was particularly evident with one case in Hamil ‐ although you might find it easier to contact your councillor direct ton Close where Hyde was adamant it had dealt with an urgent and we’ll report the problem for you. repair issue when it hadn’t! I’ve taken this, and other cases, up In terms of potholes, these can, obviously, be very dangerous both with Hyde directly but I’ve suggested that we also meet with Peter for cyclists and drivers so don’t hesitate to get in touch with one Kyle and senior Hyde managers to discuss this problem in more of us and we’ll get it dealt with very quickly. detail. Overdown Rise development Cityclean As you’re probably all aware, there have been numerous problems All four Portslade councillors met with Cityclean managers last with the construction site at the back of Overdown Rise. These month to discuss the post‐Christmas problems with recycling in mostly, but not entirely, relate to construction traffic. I’m in touch Portslade (particularly North Portslade). There have been long with Thakeham and the council on an almost daily basis (this was standing problems with this service which is incredibly frustrating written in March) and have been told that Thakeham are in con ‐ for residents and we will let you know how Cityclean plans to im ‐ travention of their own Construction Environment Management prove things. Plan (CEMP). What I don’t know is what the consequences of this are for Thakeham. It’s also clear that the physical integrity of the Cllr Peter Atkinson roads is being very badly affected by the volume and sheer weight 01273 291080 or peter.atkinson@brighton‐hove.gov.uk
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~ COUNCILLORS CORN ER ~ COUNCILLOR A N NE PISSARIDOU In my previous articles I wro te about the Climate grew. Glyphosate has been linked by the Wo rld He alth Organisation as Assembly so I thought it would be useful t o bring a probable cause of non‐Hoskins lymphoma and possi bly other cancers. you right up to date with how th is is progr ess ‐ Organisations r anging fr om Pesticide Action Network to th e Soil Associ ‐ ing. We ha ve n ow appointed a company (S orti ‐ ation are very cle ar on the h armful impact pesticides have, n ot just in tion) wh o will be r an domly selecting 5000 terms of cancer for humans, bu t in t erms of destruction of our envir on ‐ residents, from all w alks o f life and in all areas ment and wildlife. of the city, and in viting them to express an in ‐ We pledged to become a pesticide‐fr ee cit y becaus e we know the dam ‐ terest i n b ecoming involved in the age that these to xic che mica ls can do. This year we are employing sea ‐ assemblies. Out of these 5000, 50 will be selected to actu ally be part of sonal workers who will re move w eeds manually. These staff will this Citizens assembly on cli mate change. The first meeting of the as ‐ concentrate on areas of low footfall, as high footfall tram ples keep the sembly will be on Wednesda y 2 2 Apr il, which will be facilitated by Ipso s w eeds down natural ly. Mori. Th e topics for the first three asse mblies will be transport. At a t i me of climate emergency, we shou ld take this very seriously. We I am acu tely aware that there are ongoing proble ms with r efuse and re ‐ all have to take practical steps to com bat the climate crisis and protect cycling collecti ons so I w anted to give you an update on what I, as ch air public health, a nd this is one that we as a council are taking. of the Environmen t Tran sp ort and Sustainability Committee ha ve been I also wrote about what we could do to t ake full advantage of our local doing. parks and gre en spaces. In North Portslade w e have Mile Oak Rec and I arranged for all Portslade councillo rs to m eet wit h the executive direc ‐ Warrior (chalk pit) p arks. I asked if you would be interest e d in work ing tor of Econo my Environment and Culture and managers of Cityclean t his with me and our p arks t eam o n revitalising Warrior. It’s a fant astic spac e morning (3 March) to discuss the servi ce and how it will be th at is badly in need of som e tlc. Th ere are some limited funds available imp roved. T he managers explained the ongoing pr oblems with the serv ‐ to spend here so we would get off to a flying start by looking a t provid ing ice and cou nc illors expressed, in no uncertain terms, the concerns of more play equipment for o ur youn g children. Also, as ward councillors our resident s and sa id that while we do sympathise with t he organisa ‐ we each have a small budg et (£100 0 each ) that we can spend on com ‐ tional prob le ms, ou r residents just want their bins emptied regularly. munity projects and I would like to spend mine on planting more Also, as chair , I am very i nvolved in the modernisation plans trees. We all know the be nefits that trees bring to our environment! I for Citycle an. On a very positive note we found out that we, in P ortslade wo uld appreciate y our comments? are leading on the amoun t we rec ycle – so keep on washing, squashin g, I hope to meet many of you at the Portslade Community Forum Open squeezing, easing and folding y our recycling Well done us! I am ver y Da y in May and let me know your thoughts. Finally, I would like to wish optimistic that the measures put in p lace will improve the service but P ortslade’s Councillor Alan Robins every success when, for the next year do get in touch with me if you have an y problems from May, he becomes the mayor of our city. As it is now sprin g, it me ans that our gardens will burst into life again, plants and trees will grow birds and insects will tweet and chirrup and Cllr Anne Pissaridou weeds will grow. You will be aware that, because of a very real concern Anne.pissaridou@brighton‐hove.gov.uk for the health of our residents, around this time last year we stopped mobile: 07562 437609 spraying glyphosate and of course this meant that weed s COUNCILLOR LE S HAMILTON I am frequently be ing as ked about the plans to with them frequently in the former rent offic e in Ea sthill Way. provide a new bo wli ng green and pavilion in Vic ‐ You will be aware that the former King’s Sch ool site at the top of the toria Recreation Groun d. The old pav ilion in the High Street is empty and the council is applying for it t o be r emoved rec has been demolished, a s hav e th e former from the list of school bu ildi ng s so that it can be put to other uses. It council offices. However no wo rk has yet sta rted is probable that it will be used for offices for the F am ily, C hildren and on constructing the new facilities and with the S chools team, thereby releasing land at Moulsecoom b w here the of ‐ bowling s eason starting in April, I am being fices are currently based . That site could then be used for coun cil asked whether the club w ill be able to play this season. The housing. Concern has been expre ssed about parking but I ha ve al ‐ building contractor who it was expected to construct the facility with ‐ ready said to the council that as many parking spaces as possible drew, so the work had to go out to tender again. This all takes tim e should be provided as up to 150 c ou ncil of ficers could be based there. and the earliest the new facility cou ld be availa ble is September. The Land formerly used for re creation can converted into a parking ar ea. existing gree n will be used this season and r equ ired facilities will be Appl ication has also been made to free up the field on the boundary provided. path in So uthwick which belongs to th e city and which could be We now have a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) in South leas ed to a loc al junior football club. Portslade. His name is Joe Higgins. I m et him an d he is keen to get The le gal transfer of the pat h from Locks Crescent to Locks H ill has involved in the loca l community. You may be aware that w hen Port ‐ now been completed so t he path is secure for the use of futur e slade Town Hall had building operations carried out, some police gen erations officers were bas ed in th e building. 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11 Lamp post Lottery I had to continuously ring council officials for over three but I wonder how quickly officials would have reacted if I months before they would take action to repair the broken lived in a BN3 postcode area. After all, how long does it take lights outside Parker Court. During this time residents were to change a light bulb? It’s clearly a lamp post lottery. left to reach their flats in the dark and they could not see Paul Pressley, Parker Court, Portslade where they were walking, causing health & safety issues. One resident installed a light on her balcony just so she the Newspaper Group reserves the right to edit could see to take out the rubbish. articles due to restrictions of space After numerous excuses, the council did repair the lights,
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