PETWORTH PAGES ©Harsha Desai ©Harsha In this issue Plastic less Petworth Neighbourhood plan referendum New ways to pay for parking Co-op Community Fund Petworth Festival at 40 SUMMER 2018 2 Editor’s welcome Contents Welcome to the summer issue of Plastic less Petworth 4 Petworth Pages and a big thank you to Town Council report everyone who completed and returned 6 the bus survey. We had nearly 100 Spotlight events 8 responses, really helpful feedback – Community pages 12 along with the hard evidence required Artistic Petworth 18 – to help Petworth Town Council move ahead and formulate its Transport Plan. Co-op Community Fund 20 Probably the most significant event Love books? 22 coming up this summer in Petworth News from our schools 24 is the referendum on the Petworth Neighbourhood Plan which if it has a majority of those Local contacts 26 voting in favour, will be used to determine future planning Regular events 27 applications. It’s a golden opportunity for the community so Local businesses 30 please don’t ignore your polling card when it comes through the post, come along and vote (see page 16 for more details). As always, there is plenty to do in Petworth and there are also lots of opportunities to become engaged. Why not PETWORTH PAGES FUTURE EDITIONS join Petworth’s very own ‘Plastic Less’ Working Group to tackle the huge problem of single use plastics that threaten Autumn issue Winter issue to destroy our environment, our wildlife and our health (read Through your letterbox Through your letterbox our special feature on page 4 to find out how to make a few w/c 20th August w/c 19th November simple changes). With the centenary of the end of World War 1 coming up, you might have noticed the Silent Soldiers that are starting to appear on village greens and near town entrances. I noticed one of them coming into Chiddingfold as I was driving home the other day and thought what a beautiful tribute they are to the fallen. On page 12, find out how to club together and sponsor one to grace the entrances of Petworth. Another centenary – women’s suffrage – is being commemorated through the planting for Petworth in Bloom. Turn to page 8 for a preview, I can’t wait to see the displays! Whatever you do this summer, enjoy the season and enjoy reading your latest issue of Petworth Pages. Natwest mobile banking service comes to Petworth With the Petworth branch closing on 19th June, NatWest is introducing a new mobile banking service starting on 9th May as follows: The team Every Wednesday from 1.20pm-2.20pm in the Petworth Pages is a collaboration between Petworth Town Library Car Park Council and Petworth Business Association. Services will include cash deposit and withdrawals, bill payments and general account administration. Editor Julie Aguilar | [email protected] Customers can also withdraw money out of their Layout & Design Eyelevel Design account (up to the agreed personal limit on their debit card) and check account balances from the Post Office. There Advertising Harsha Desai | [email protected] are also plans to install an independent ATM machine in PBA Liaison Anthony Curl Petworth. In the meantime, the nearest ATM machines PTC Liaison Chris Kemp will be at the BP petrol station in Easebourne Lane near Midhurst and at Tesco in Pulborough. The closest High Please visit our Petworth websites: Street branch of NatWest is in East Street, Chichester, www.petworth-tc.gov.uk and www.discoverpetworth.uk telephone 03457 888444 (central customer services). and follow us /DiscoverPetworthUK @PetworthUK 3 SPECIAL FEATURE Plastic less Petworth How plastic is damaging an alternative for at last one plastic item is an easy way to #PassOnPlastic. they would usually use just once and For more information, visit www. planet Earth then throw away. recycleforwestsussex.org or www. “There are 500 times more Here are a few of the Council’s top chichester.gov.uk/recyclingadvice or pieces of microplastic in tips for reducing plastic use not just for call 01243 534619. the sea than there are one week but every day: stars in our galaxy and by PETWORTH 2050 it is estimated there TOP TIPS RESIDENTS’ TIPS will be more plastic than • Pack your lunch in a re-usable • Too many bags? Plenty of fish” The Independent, container – Cling film may come in supermarkets have bins for unwanted 28th September 2017 handy but you can’t recycle it, so why plastic carrier bags as well as other not re-use an old plastic takeaway wrappings like bread bags – Charlotte You’ve probably noticed that reducing container and use that as a handy Loukes the amount of plastic we use in our lunch box. • Buy an electric shaver rather than everyday lives is a very hot topic and • Carry a re-usable water bottle – disposable razors – Nichole Peet for very good reason. It’s already having Buying bottled water may be quick • Get milk from the milkman in glass a devastating effect on our coastline and easy but in the UK it is estimated bottles – and you can even order and on marine life. Scientists also that we use 35.8 million plastic bottles online the night before delivery! – believe that plastics have potentially every day (but only 19.8 million are Katie Sullivan harmful effects on human health. recycled). To stop buying bottled Any other tips? Please share them The use of chemical additives during water, treat yourself to a water bottle by sending them in to pages@petworth. plastic production could prove to and refill it as and when you need to. biz be carcinogenic or even promote • Slow down and dine in – we are endocrine disruption that can lead to always in such a rush, but why not cancerous tumours, birth defects, and JOIN THE DEBATE & give the takeaways a miss and take other developmental disorders. GET INVOLVED! a moment to dine in at your favourite Set up by local resident Charlotte Frightening news indeed but what lunch hot spot or just enjoy 20 Loukes, Facebook group ‘Less does it mean for us locally and what can minutes at your local coffee shop Plastic Living UK’ aims to support each of us do to help stem the tide of drinking a hot drink out of a proper people in the UK who want to unnecessary plastic? Chichester District cup. reduce their use of plastic. It offers Council is aiming to recycle 50% of all • Say no to straws – It is estimated advice on organisations offering domestic waste by 2020 but there is that we use 8.5 billion plastic straws refill or plastic free goods as well still a long way to go. They estimate that in the UK every year, but you can as the opportunity to exchange up to 20% of waste in black bins could actually buy a number of different tips and participate in local and be recycled and that altogether, we are straws including bamboo, metal and National petitions. Why not join the currently throwing away £8million of glass which can be re-used over and group and join in the debate? recycling materials in West Sussex. over again and are much better for the Petworth Town Council and the During Waste Week In March this environment – buy a pack and you Petworth Business Association year, West Sussex County Council’s can keep one in your bag, one at work (PBA) are working together to #PassOnPlastic Challenge encouraged and one at home. create a Working Group to take residents to think more about waste • Buy your fruit and vegetables loose steps to reduce single use plastics prevention by encouraging them to find – It may seem like a simple idea, but in the town. If you would like to be buying your fruit and vegetables loose part of this group, please contact (and not in plastic packaging/bags) PBA chairman Anthony Curl at [email protected] 4 5 PETWORTH TOWN COUNCIL 1. traffic/lorries 2. pavements and 3. location in the world and is much better parking. Armed with this information, than many of the others we have tried. Chairman’s a Working Group has been set up. Stage three mainly concerns Incorporating the findings from our arrangements in Market Square and Report traffic consultant, road counters and Golden Square and stage four is surveying the requirements for the building on what we have achieved. Melanie Kite has been with us as businesses in the town, we have come The plan is broken down into phases clerk for nearly nine months now up with a 4-stage approach outlined in because we had already started work on and she has been impressed at how the table at the foot of the page. some areas but need to prioritise others proactive we are as a council but as We have had a very useful meeting to make it more achievable. far as I am concerned, there is no with West Sussex County Council The Gardening Club and its (WSCC) Highways and we hope to have volunteers have been busy planting point being here if we can’t make found a way forward to preventing the up as Petworth has entered the Royal improvements to our community. unwanted lorries coming through the Horticultural Society ‘in Bloom’ town. There is still further work to do competition this year which we hope will We are all in our last year before you to finalise this. Changing road signs create many benefits for the town. The have the opportunity to stand as a and introducing new crossings is never Petworth in Bloom team have already candidate yourself or just vote for your instant.