Local resident and photographer Thilo Kork has produced some handsome postcards of our Parish to help raise money for new windows in Burwash Village Hall. 
The postcards are on sale at Burwash Village Store and at The Internet cafe (open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 am to 1 pm). They cost £1 each.
Why not send some to friends and family? All the profits will go to the window appeal.
How’s your arithmetic?
The big butterfly count is a nationwide survey aimed at helping assess the health of the environment. It was launched in 2010 and has rapidly become the world’s biggest survey of butterflies. Over 100,000 people took part in 2018, submitting 97,133 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the UK (see all the 2018 results).
This year’s count runs from Friday July 19 to Sunday August 11. And Burwash can play its part. Let’s start the countdown!
Volunteers are urgently needed to join the Friends of Burwash Surgery drivers’ scheme. As we all get older, it becomes more difficult to drive ourselves to surgery or hospital appointments. The Friends’ drivers offer a valuable service by stepping in to meet the growing demand. Please contact Pat Lewis on 01435 883239 or via henhurst@hotmail.com if you can help. Or tell the receptionists at the surgery you would like to volunteer.
The Burwash village sign has been restored to pride of place in the High Street after work to replace the post. A big thank you to Andy Vater and Steve Payne who handled the reinstallation of our iconic sign.
And also to Rod Seymour who took away the old post when it was beginning to lean over. The new post was set in concrete by Burwash Parish Council handyman Laurence Worton and flowers around the base were planted by Judy Malling of Pope’s Cottage Antiques.
The three heraldic shields at the top of the sign have been repainted by local Burwash potter Mary Clarke while Lee Dalton undertook the “dubbing” of the wrought iron work to spruce it up.
The three shields represent the County of Sussex and two ancient families – Burghurst and Pelham – long associated with Burwash.
Burwash Parish Council underwrote the costs of the project which was supervised by Councillor Steve Moore.
Rother District Council has a new waste, recycling and street cleansing contractor. Biffa, the new operator, starts work on June 29 and will do things a little differently. Your collection days will stay the same but recycling just got a bit easier. Under the new contract, recycled glass should not go in a separate container – put it together with your other recyclables in the recycling bin or pink sack. The glass will be separated at the recycling facility and recycled as normal. Your old box for glass will not be collected – keep it and re-use it for something else! Also put Tetra Pak cartons (used for things like long-life milk, juice, soup etc) in your household waste bin. Tetra Pak can no longer be recycled in this area so instead will be sent to Newhaven Energy Recover facility with the rest of our household waste. See here for an update on Rother’s recycling policies.
South East Water is carrying out maintenance on the water network in the Burwash area over the next couple of weeks to make sure supplies keep running clear.
A process called “flushing” is designed to draw naturally occurring deposits out of the network. Work begins on Wednesday June 12 and will last for approximately two weeks.
Users may see temporarily discoloured water. This problem can be solved by running the cold kitchen tap until the water runs clear.
There has been a great response to the appeal for volunteers to run the Burwash school crossing. Two volunteers are fully trained and four others are being trained. Together they will cover seven shifts across the week. More volunteers are needed. So if you think you can help cover the remaining shifts please contact Lindsay Macfarlane on 07793052622. In particular, cover is needed for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, 3.15 pm to 3.45 pm.
Welcome to the new Burwash Parish website. The site has a fresh, modern feel to better showcase news, events and information about our community.
Coming soon, the Council will launch a new mobile app for tablets and smartphones so you can access Parish news and information on the move and receive notifications and reminders of upcoming events wherever you are.
Watch this space for more updates.
Progress on the Burwash Neighbourhood Development Plan and the latest news on traffic calming in Burwash Village will be among the topics up for discussion at the Parish Annual Assembly this Thursday, May 30 at 7 pm in Burwash Village Hall.
Local councillors and residents have been working hard for months to flesh out the plans which will help shape how our community develops over the coming years.
Click here for a summary of the draft Neighbourhood Plan and here for the full document.
The meeting will also be an opportunity to hear more about the The Parish Council’s rolling plan.
Come along to Burwash Village Hall at 7 pm on May 30 to have your say.
Burwash Parish Council is urging Rother District Council to reconsider how the appeal against rejection of a controversial planning application for Strand Meadow will be handled.
Rother District Council announced this month that the appeal by Park Lane Homes against the rejection of its plans for 30 homes on Watercress Field, near Strand Meadow, will be determined by written representations, not via a public inquiry or hearing.
The Parish Council and Burwash: Save our Fields from Concrete wrote to Rother earlier this year urging that the appeal into the site be handled by an inquiry or through a public hearing where all the issues could be properly aired. Over 400 objections to the Park Lane scheme were lodged by individuals and organisations when the most recent planning application for the site was made. Rother District Council planning committee unanimously REJECTED the application in January, 2019, despite the fact that Rother’s own planning officers supported the application.
Rother has said that new representations for the Appeal have to be made by June 17, 2019. All existing objections and representations have been forwarded to the Planning Inspectorate.
Representations to the Planning Inspectorate can be made through its portal. You can also email East2@planninginspectorate.gov.uk or write, sending three copies, to:
Caroline Harvey
C Eagle, 3rd Floor
Temple Quay House
2, The Square
Bristol BS1 6PN
The Appeal Reference is APP/U1430/W/19/3223824. You can see this online here.
Find more background on our Development Issues and Updates page here.