If you need help with anything, or you want to offer helpPlanting a hedge? – grants now available
An announcement from the Tree Council Plant a hedge in your community! Community Hedge Fund now open for winter planting applications As part of our year-long Close the Gap programme, we’re delighted to announce that our Community Hedge Fund is now open for applications. We will be awarding grants of up to £2,500 for volunteer […]
Brightling Flower Show 2021 – an announcement from the committee
The BAD news: it’s OFF Regretfully, due to the Step 3 coronovirus restrictions still being in place, we have come to the unhappy decision to cancel the Flower Show. In theory, we could have held a covid-compliant show, but it didn’t sound a lot of fun and many of the activities would have been difficult […]
Two new retrospective planning applications for work at Baldwins Farm, Mountfield
Follow the links below to see details of the applications and optionally submit a comment to Rother District Council. Both applications relate to work which has already been carried out prior to the planning applications being made. Because the building is listed, there is a planning application and a parallel listed building application. RR/2021/698/P Baldwins […]
Enlightening Electricity
Fiona Macnab reports: A typical blackout in Brightling (artist’s impression) Tom Miles, the area manager for East Sussex & Kent at UK Power Networks (UKPN) gave a solid run-through of the ‘Electricity Situation’ at the Annual Parish Meeting on 14th April Tom looks after 800,000 customers within this region, of which 279 customers sit in […]
Motorbike invasion
There are some areas in Brightling where the arrival of Spring is heralded not just by the singing of birds and the buzzing of bees but by the roaring of motorbikes on the B2096 through Netherfield, down to Darwell Crossroads and on up to Woods Corner, Dallington and beyond . Whilst no one wants to […]