No 28 March 2017 Peacehaven Town Council The Bulk is back Top tag team at wrestling spectacular. See Page 3 Our festival of food Park’s all mapped and drink — Page 2 out — Page 4 Making Peacehaven a better place to live,work and visit www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk 1 Tel: 01273 585493 Peacehaven Town Council March 2017 AppeBon tit A food and drink festival is planned for this summer. Last year’s summer fair at Snap to it for Centenary Park was enjoyed by more than 5,000 people and the town council is hoping even more will come along to this our calendar year’s festival. Photographers are being urged The event will be at the park on to send their scenic pictures Saturday, July 15, and the council is of Peacehaven to the town asking businesses who want to be a part council for a 2018 calendar it is of it and have a stall to get in touch now. planning. And there will be a summer parade. Please ensure that every Cllr Rachael Coles said: “The Easter picture is captioned with its exact parade last year was such a success, with location, the month it was taken so many of the community coming and the photographer’s contact together, we have decided to do a summer details. parade to coincide with our food and drink Email photos to chloereader@ festival.” peacehavencouncil.co.uk or take To book your place or find out more call either a high-quality print or 01273 585493 or email deborahdonovan pictures on a USB stick to the @peacehavencouncil.co.uk A feast of fine food in the park Information Office at the Meridian Centre. Showing at the SOUND ADVICE town council’s cinema at the Citizens Advice has welcomed a The Ofgem cap will help millions �Meridian Centre prepayment meter price cap save money, says CA, but action on Wednesday, March 15, announced by energy regulator should not stop there. at 7.30pm will be award- Ofgem that will save these It says customers on standard winning musical La La customers around £80 a year after tariffs are paying over the odds for Land (12A). Mia, an it is introduced next month. gas and electricity. aspiring actress, and CA Chief Executive Gillian Guy The Government could help Sebastian, a dedicated jazz said: “This cap should stop struggling households by extending musician, struggle to make households paying over the odds to the prepayment meter cap to those ends meet while pursuing heat and light their homes. who are eligible to receive the their dreams in Los “For years prepayment meter Warm Homes Discount, helping Angeles. Tickets are £5 customers have been paying more low-income pensioners and from the Information Office. for the same gas and electricity as families. other customers while also If you are worried about your receiving a second-class service finances and need some help, drop from their supplier.” in to one of CA’s local offices or call Who’s for bingo? While welcoming this saving, 03444 111 444. Cash prize bingo will be at the CA has called for the Government Further details of the opening Meridian Centre on Friday, March to cut bills for other customers on times are at www.lewesdistrict 10, at 7pm and Wednesday, standard tariffs. cab.org.uk March 15, at 2pm. Eight games for £4 plus snowball and flyer. www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk 2 Tel: 01273 585493 Peacehaven Town Council March 2017 Tag along with The Pitbulls’ title chase The UK Pitbulls, arguably the most The current line-up of The Pitbulls is a sensational tag team in wrestling, are reincarnation of the original team of set to invade Peacehaven. brothers Mike and Dave Waters, who I have been contacted by many The Pitbulls, who threaten the retired as the undefeated Premier residents about the issue of traffic on scales at a combined weight of 58 Wrestling Federation champions and the A259. This is something I have stone, consist of Mike Waters, aka remain the most successful tag team been working on for a long time and I The Bulk, reputedly Europe’s heaviest in PWF history. have raised constituents’ concerns wrestler, and his partner, Big Joe. Barring a couple of disqualifications frequently with all our local councils. They will top the bill on the and a no-contest decision, they were It is one of the many issues I always biggest grappling spectacular yet beaten only twice in 28 bouts in discuss when I meet with the chief staged at the Meridian Centre, on Premier Promotions rings between executive officers from East Sussex Saturday, April 1. 2003 and 2008. and Brighton and Hove. I met the new But it all came to a halt when Dave CEO of Lewes District Council recently suffered a crippling knee injury while together with the council leader, Cllr Council meetings taking part in a strongman competition Andy Smith, to discuss this important and Mike, who is also a drummer in a issue. I am told by East Sussex County The public may attend any heavy rock band, hung up his Council the introduction of council or committee meeting. wrestling boots. any kind of relief road north Each meeting is normally held Now The Bulk is back, with Big Joe of the A259 or a new link to the A27 to relieve at the Meridian Centre and starts as his partner, aiming to make April congestion on the A259 at 7.30pm unless stated. fools out of the Meridian opposition as they set out to destroy every tag team between Peacehaven and March in the country en route to recapturing Rottingdean would be 7 Council the tag-team title. challenging to deliver as both would 14 Planning and Highways Tickets, with more big names to be cross the protected landscape of the 21 Leisure and Amenities announced in the run-up to the show, South Downs National Park. The county council has said it is April are priced at £12 but fans can book in working to improve the efficiency of advance for what is expected to be a 4 Planning and Highways the existing network and to encourage sell-out evening for £10. Call 01273 25 Audit 7pm walking, cycling and public transport 585493. The event is being 25 Policy and Finance journeys to help relieve congestion on sponsored by Aquarius Solutions. the A259. I will continue to call on local councils and work together with local Chamber boosts its website councillors to try to resolve the awful traffic situation across the area and Peacehaven and District information about stand up for residents who are tired of Chamber of Commerce has themselves.” sitting in traffic each day. launched its new website. The chamber, the I would be grateful if you could Special features include a area’s premier take a few minutes to complete the dedicated page for each member. business support and following survey: http://www.smart Chairman Phil Merry said: networking organisation, is survey.co.uk/s/SimonKirbyMPTraffic “This is a major step forward for celebrating its tenth anniversary. Survey/ us. It means every member can Find out more about its popular now have constant access to breakfast club and the new their own page to promote their monthly dining club at Simon Kirby company with all their contact www.peacehavenchamber.co.uk MP for Brighton Kemptown details, logos and updated or call 01273 586222. and Peacehaven www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk 3 Tel: 01273 585493 Peacehaven Town Council March 2017 All mapped out Maps have been created to make Orienteering is suitable for all ages orienteering possible at Centenary and levels of fitness. Park. Orienteering is an increasingly Copies of the maps can be popular outdoor activity and collected from the Gateway Cafe in competitive sport and at the park the park. There are beginners, you can use one of the maps to find intermediate and advanced courses You can find out your way on foot around a series of to suit all abilities. more and also download the maps permanent marker posts. The maps are specially surveyed at www.bigparksproject.org.uk You can walk around a course in orienteering maps to a scale of /orienteering/ your own time, enjoying the 1:4,000 so that one centimetre To find out more about challenge of map reading while represents 40 metres on the ground. orienteering in this area go to taking some healthy exercise. All the courses start at the cafe. www.southdowns-orienteers.org.uk Rosemary for remembrance People are being asked to plant rosemary in their front gardens as part of Peacehaven’s centenary celebrations and to remember the town’s special link to the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives at Gallipolli in the First World War. Peacehaven was originally called New Anzac-on-Sea to honour them but the name was to encourage residents to plant changed 100 years ago. rosemary seedlings as a visible District councillors Rosemary has a long sign of remembrance linking to Peacehaven’s councillors on Lewes District association with helping memory, the past and acknowledging the Council: it grows wild on the Gallipoli 100 years commemoration of the peninsula and sprigs are used as Great War and the renaming of North ward: Andy Loraine, 01273 580919, and a symbol on Remembrance Day in the town. Elayne Merry, 01273 580732. Australia. “We are hoping the rosemary East ward: Nigel Enever, 01273 580399, and At the town’s renaming will grow for years to come so Jackie Harrison-Hicks, 01273 589430.