Q3 community 2019 9 thakeham News from your Parish Council What’s on locally Local community groups QUALITY AND VALUE DIRECT FROM THE GROWER! • You will find an exceptional range of Seasonal and Hardy plants here at our Nurseries in West Chiltington – all grown and sold on site. • TWO FOR ONE OFFERS ON SELECTED HARDY PERENNALS – STARTS AUGUST 3RD! • Wide range of Hardy Perennials – Available Now! CLAIM A FREE HARDY PATIO DIATHUS WITH THIS ADVERT! VILLAGE NURSERIES SINNOCKS, WEST CHILTINGTON, RH20 2JX 01798 813040 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9.00AM TO 6PM [email protected] News from your Parish Council by Charlotte Dumbrill, Assistant Clerk painting, a coconut shy, in organising this year’s event. It really a rodeo bull, a dog show, couldn’t happen without you. Anyone ice cream, raffle draws, wanting to help with next year should lots of cake and our very contact thakehamcommunityevents@ own Parish Rector in the gmail.com. Please send any photos that stocks! Thakeham Primary you’d be happy to share on our website School wowed us with to [email protected] their Choir performance and proved “Thakeham’s Got Talent” with their fantastic talent show. We also had a martial arts demonstration and a dog show brought to us by Meadow Hall Veterinary Practice. VILLAGE DAY SUCCESS As the day activities ended the evening’s Fun Guy Fest began, featuring he sun shone for Thakeham Village local bands GJs Group, Moore Than TDay and Fun Guy Fest. This year A Feeling, Holly & the Rockits and Wes those in Lucas & The Band. attendance This year we made the event as enjoyed environmentally friendly as practicable. a mix of Bar “glasses” were reusable and stalls and recyclable waste was separated and activities sorted the following day, including all the including plastic bottle tops being removed. This bouncy extra care and attention meant 9 bins- castles, worth of rubbish was recycled instead a fire of going to landfill. engine, Thank you to everyone who attended face and to every person who played a part 2 CRICKET REPORTING A PROBLEM PAVILION e often see people asking who Wthey can report a problem to, AND PITCH we’ve created a list of our most frequent n May the new cricket queries. You can also report issues at Ipavilion (pictured www.thakehamparish.co.uk/report-it right) and facilities I’ve noticed a problem with… were handed over from Who is responsible? the developers to the • Overgrown hedges…The landowner community to enjoy. The opening event • Overgrowth on pavements and rights was a huge success, of way…The owner of the land the with a cricket match, vegetation grows in; problems can be hog roast and barbeque, a bar and a flagged via the Love West Sussex website new book William Penn: A Life. It was a performance from a live band. The portal fantastic event attended by many keen facilities are a great asset to the village • Roads (including potholes)…West historians and book lovers alike, learning and will be used regularly by West Sussex County Council (Love West about Penn, the man, a little of his life at Chiltington & Thakeham Cricket Club Sussex portal) Warminghurst and the strong historical youth (and other) teams. roots of Quakerism and the Blue Idol • Rights of Way: footway surface issues… West Sussex County Council (Love West WILLIAM PENN EVENT Meeting House in Thakeham. Attendees took the opportunity to view the Penn Sussex portal) On 3 June we hosted US academic Stone in its new tranquil setting by the • High Bar Lane Playground…Thakeham Andrew R. Murphy for a talk about his new Abingworth pond. Parish Council • Abingworth Meadows toddler playground…Abingworth Meadows Highways still require further technical managing agents approvals, which are being progressed • Furze Common Road playground… Transport matters as quickly as possible, with a view to Horsham District Council TRAFFIC CALMING scheduling works without further delay. uring August, long-awaited signage The PC will keep residents updated as • Speed Limits…West Sussex Highways Dworks will extend the 40mph speed the timeline of the roadworks emerges. • Traffic Calming installations…West limit on the B2139 northwards from Sussex Highways the Merrywood Lane junction over RIGHTS OF WAY • Road Safety/Anti-Social Driving Jackets Hill, to meet the 30mph zone Individual road users…Report it to the at Abingworth Hall. Another vehicle- IMPROVEMENTS Police via Operation Crackdown. activated sign to support this is due ork is underway to improve the to follow. Wsurface of the east (Thakeham) • The Village Hall…Thakeham Village Hall A new Traffic Calming Speed Study end of the bridleway connecting High Trust (www.thakehamvillagehall.co.uk) on the 30mph zone on the B2139 is Bar Lane and West Chiltington. Thanks • Abingworth football fields…Thakeham now available comparing current data to all for bearing with the inconvenience Parish Council of a temporary closure while these with data from before installation of • Fly Tipping…Horsham District Council the pinch points. The key findings were works to create a more usable all- • Litter…Everyone, if you see it, pick it up. that northbound vehicle speeds have weather route are being completed. The Parish Council employ a part-time decreased by 11.1mph from 40.1mph Progress is also being made on litter picker to clear certain areas within to 29.0mph and southbound vehicle safe walking/cycling between central the Parish. speeds have decreased by 6.3mph Thakeham and Storrington: a number from 38.3mph to 32mph. Despite some of substandard sections of Strawberry • Dog fouling…The dog owner. Failure visibility concerns, WSCC Highways Lane are being upgraded and by the to pick up poo can result in a £50 Fixed have confirmed that they consider the end of 2019 we should see completion Penalty Notice so bag it, tie it and bin it! current layout to be the only viable one, of a new footway on the east side of (Any bin will do!) so the PC is doing what it can to improve the B2139 to link from the end of the Anything else can be reported at visibility and signage. Another vital part existing pavement at Merrywood Lane www.thakehamparish.co.uk/report-it of making our roads safer is the regular to the concrete bridleway opposite ongoing presence of members of the Kingdom Hall. Thakeham Community Speedwatch Meantime, work continues to secure group; visit www. thakehamparish.co.uk/ the new east-west bridleway route Contact your traffic-calming-latest/ to find out more through the Abingworth Meadows and join this group. development, which is due to connect Parish Council to a further section on the west side Clerk: Owen Richards MONAGHANS ENTRANCE of the B2139 running south of the [email protected] Monaghan’s site, before re-joining High Assistant Clerk: Charlotte Dumbrill WORKS Bar Lane by the existing playground. [email protected] orsham District planners have now This will allow safer crossing of the Telephone: 01798 815305 Hgiven permission for long-awaited B2139 and benefit both residents in Facebook: @Thakeham Parish Community proposals to re-shape Monaghans the Linfield Copse area and through- www.thakehamparish.co.uk Mushrooms’ front-of-site access travellers along the existing bridleway to Office: Thakeham Parish Council, Thakeham arrangements, which are designed to West Chiltington. Village Hall, 1 Abingworth Crescent, prevent (as far as possible) HGV vehicles Details and further updates available Thakeham, West Sussex RH20 3GW from entering or leaving the site in a at www/thakehamparish.co.uk/rights- northerly direction on the B2139. WSCC of-way-improvements/ Councillors’ full contact details can be found at: www.thakehamparish.co.uk/councillors 3 COMMUNITY NEWS VILLAGE SHOP UPDATE Community matters r Bryant, the owner of the new Abingworth shop THAKEHAM PARISH HISTORY: CAN YOU Mbuilding, issued an updated statement on 24 June CONTRIBUTE? stating that problems with the building structure needed to he parish website has a history section, including an be resolved by dispute resolution between himself and the archive page thakehamparish.co.uk/archive-area/), builder before the internal fittings for the shop and veterinary T for which we welcome items relating to the parish surgery could be completed. The statement says, “it is not from historical times to the recent past. Contact Roger realistic to believe this will be resolved in the short term Taylor ([email protected]), Owen Richards (clerk@ and it is now unlikely that the building will be completed thakehamparish.co.uk) or Charlotte Dumbrill (assistant- before next spring”. The Parish Council shares the general [email protected]) if you have any photographs, local frustration with delays on this but understands that information or anecdotes you can share, or questions about the prospective tenants of both the shop and vets remain village history. A good example of important anecdotal committed despite the delayed timeline. information is Alan Simmonds’ memoir of his time here as an evacuee during WW2. HIGH BAR LANE CHILDREN’S PARK Each notable building, space or artefact should have he Parish Council has now secured funding for further its own record here, and we welcome written accounts Timprovements to High Bar Lane play area, including a of houses and other locations from their present or past new rubberised ground surface to replace the current wood- residents, neighbours or visitors. Our collection is steadily but chipped area, further refurbishment of existing equipment slowly growing – can you help speed up progress? and other repairs. Keeping weeds at bay has become an expensive and losing battle and we hope to have work THAKEHAM SHORT MAT BOWLS CLUB underway early this autumn. his recently formed club holds roll-ups every Monday evening from 7.15 to 9.15 and welcomes new members.