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The Sevenoaks Society for the Conservation and Improvement of the Town The Sevenoaks Society for the conservation and improvement of the town Summer 2018 www.sevenoakssociety.org.uk Registered Charity Number 094951 President Sir Michael Harrison Vice Presidents R Harcourt, E Keys, M Nairne, Mrs A Rogers, P Rogers, BA Walker Committee Chairman Honorary Honorary Publicity Membership Treasurer Secretary Officer Secretary DAVID GREEN RICHARD BAXTER TIM PEARCE KEITH WADE MICHAEL HIBLING Hollow End, 7, The Drive Flat 3 Little Finches 5 Gordon Road Wellmeade Drive Sevenoaks Clarendon Court Morleys Road Sevenoaks Sevenoaks TN13 3AB Sevenoaks Sevenoaks Weald TN13 1HE TN13 1QA TN13 1ES TN14 6QY 01732 457143 01732 460326 01732 465110 01732 458456 01732 459121 Committee Members Roger FitzGerald RIBA David Gamble Charles George Geraldine Tucker John Stambollouian Nick Umney Roger Walshe Magazine VICTORIA GRANVILLE 7, The Drive Sevenoaks TN13 3AB [email protected] 2 cover painting with kind permission of Wendy Lankester Chairman’s report David Green.......... .................... 4 Treasurer’s Report Richard Baxter ......................... 6 Accounts Year ended 31st March 2018 .................................................. 7 Townscape & Planning group report John Stambollouian...... .......... 8 Lodges and Coach Houses book Geraldine Tucker ..................... 9 Walks Calendar Nick Umney.................. ........... 10 Bligh’s Farm and Hotel up to 1900 Keith Wade ............................. 13 Talk: Knole Restoration Project Tim Pearce .............................. 16 Agenda for the 2018 AGM ................................................ 18 Minutes of the 2017 AGM ................................................ 18 Heritage Exhibition 2019 Geraldine Tucker ................... 20 Membership Application Form ................................................ 21 GDPR Form ................................................ 22 Walking Guides Nick White .............................. 23 Calendar for the Sevenoaks Society ................................................ 24 Calendar for the Sevenoaks Historical Society .......................................... 24 3 Chairman’s Report David Green General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) As you will be aware from my recent download a copy from there; letters we, in common with every alternatively the Hon Secretary can organisation which holds personal supply a copy on receiving an A4 sized information relating to its members, stamped addressed envelope. customers and others, have had to take steps to obtain the consent of all our members to the Society holding details of Membership Secretary their names, addresses etc. I would like to thank all of you who have responded I am delighted to announce that Mike to those letters and given us the required Hibling has agreed to become our new consent. There is, however, still a large Membership Secretary. He has lived in number of members from whom we Sevenoaks all his life (I will not embarrass have not heard; I would urge any him by giving his age away!), and after members who have not responded to do attending Sevenoaks School and St so without delay by completing and Andrews University where he gained a returning the tear-off slip which is found degree in biochemistry he spent his on page 22 in this magazine. Once the working life as an insurance broker in the Regulations come into force on 25th May City during which he picked up we shall not thereafter be able to specialisms in a diverse group of communicate with those members until businesses including the steel, container- such time as we receive the necessary leasing and fine art sectors. He retired at consent, so that until then they will not the end of last year. He has been for receive the bi-annual magazine or any many years a member of Sevenoaks other communications from us. Hockey Club, Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club (for whom he has recently taken up the The need to comply with the regulations role of Secretary) and Knole Park Golf has imposed a very considerable Club. additional burden on, particularly, our long-suffering Hon Secretary, Tim Pearce I have known him for many years and as well as the Hon Treasurer, Richard have no hesitation in saying that he will Baxter. However, it has not all been bad do the job splendidly. news. As a result of the replies we have received we now have an up-to-date list He will be co-opted onto the Executive of all our current active and interested Committee at its next meeting as Acting members with their current addresses Membership Secretary and will then be (both postal and, where appropriate, formally nominated for election at the email). AGM in October. I am so glad that we have at last been able to relieve Tim We have adopted the required Data Pearce of this role and would like to Protection Policy which has been placed thank him for filling it so willingly and well on the Society’s website. If wanted any since the departure of Phyllis Styles 4 member with internet access can several years ago. Chairman’s Report (cont’d) Membership The Group will in due course be turning its attention the drafts of the new Local The need to comply with the GDPR has Plan and the Neighbourhood brought to the fore the need to update Development Plan due to be published our membership records. As mentioned by, respectively, Sevenoaks District in my last report, Nick Umney has created Council and Sevenoaks Town Council for an entirely new custom-built database of public consultation. I have no doubt that our members and has been very much the Society will be commenting on those involved in inserting the details of each plans, at least to the extent that they member’s address, class of membership relate to and affect the area administered and method of subscription payment into by the Town Council which is the ambit of that database. This means that we are the Society’s interests. now fully up-to-date on the membership front. We are most grateful to Nick for Talks undertaking this important technical task Our regular evening talks have continued, for us; it will be of great benefit to our and full reports appear elsewhere of new Membership Secretary, as well as to those which have taken place since the the Society as a whole. publication of the Winter edition of the Since 1st November 2017 we have elected magazine, as do details of the talks so far a number of new members which is arranged for the remainder of 2018. The encouraging. We would happily elect talk by Nathalie Cohen on “Archaeology many more members (there is no limit on at Knole” on 28th March was very well the number we can have!). So, I would attended and particularly interesting; we urge everyone to see if they have may well ask her to return because she neighbours or friends who would like to clearly has more to tell than she was able join and put them in touch with Tim to bring on this visit. It was unfortunate Pearce, Richard Baxter or myself. You will that the talk by Andrew Willmore on “The find a Membership Application form on Greensand Commons Project” on 28th page 21 February had to be cancelled because of the snow brought by the “beast from the Townscape and Planning Group east”. However, I am pleased to report Whilst a full report from John that the talk has been rearranged for Stambollouian appears on page 8, I would later in the year. like to record the addition to the Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve membership of the Group of Margaret Deegan, Andy Lewis and Andrew Scrace. At the invitation of the Kent Wildlife Trust They have each made a considerable Tim Pearce and I attended a presentation contribution to the Group’s deliberations, on 10th April of the four designs the Trust not to mention that they have, at a has shortlisted for a new visitor centre at stroke, significantly reduced its age the Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve “to profile! I hope they will participate even promote learning, wellbeing, curiosity more fully in the Society’s activities as and nature”. It promises to be an exciting time goes by. development which was explained by the 5 Sixty Sixth Annual General Meeting Chairman’s Report (cont’d) Treasurer’s Report May 2018 Trust’s Head of People Development, The accounts for the year ended 31st Stevie Rice. She has accepted our March 2018 – see facing page – will be invitation to give us a talk about the presented to the members for approval project; it is a subject which will be of at the Annual general Meeting. great interest and I would encourage as many of you as possible to attend on 28th Our membership numbers remain steady November. so that new members’ subscriptions effectively replace those of lost members. Sevenoaks Summer Charity Fayre However the society has enjoyed a good year mainly through the success of its This year’s Fayre will be held on Saturday th publications and events. The figures 30 June and has been relocated to the show the surplus achieved by each – Vine Gardens. We have applied for, and Walk Books, Lodges Book and been given, a stall, and would welcome Montalbano evening. any members willing to help run it during the morning, and possibly also the We have “managed” our expenses this afternoon. We shall use the event to year, particularly our magazine costs publicise our activities and sell the Walk (through changing our distribution books and the Lodges book. method) and our insurance (through changing provider). We have invested in a Heritage Buildings Exhibition and The computer and software to support the Lodges Book more rigorous membership management Work is continuing on the preparations procedures required under the new for the Buildings Exhibition and a report GDPR. from Geraldine Tucker who is leading the Accounts approved by the Committee group responsible appears on page 20. and signed on their behalf by The Lodges Book, co-authored by David Green Chairman Geraldine and Elizabeth Purves, which was published last October has been a Richard Baxter Treasurer great success and is selling well; it is still 10th May 2018 available at the Sevenoaks Bookshop.
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