Gas Works in Felbridge

Notice from Southern Gas Networks:

We are writing to let you know about our project to upgrade our gas network in Woodcock Hill, Felbridge. We are replacing our old metal gas mains and services with new plastic pipe. This essential work will ensure your community continues to receive a safe and reliable gas supply.

In consultation with Surrey Council, our contractor, WCB Utilities, who will be completing this project on our behalf, will start work on 11 July for approximately eight weeks.

Our work will be phased as follows:

Woodcock Hill – Our engineers will be working at the junction with Heatherway to the junction with A22 from 11 July for approximately four weeks. We will need to install 3-way lights to allow traffic to safely pass our work site.

Woodcock Hill – We will be working from the junction with Woodcock Hill slip road to outside Chester Lodge from 25 July for approximately six weeks. We will need to install temporary two-way lights to allow traffic to safely pass our work site.

London Road – from 25 July for approximately six weeks, we will be working outside Chester Lodge to outside Camden House. Two-way signals will be temporarily installed to manage the traffic around our work site.

We understand that people can get frustrated by roadworks, and therefore we only use traffic management that we feel is efficient enough to complete these works safely for ourselves and the public.

We’re writing to residents and other local stakeholders to make them aware of our project and explain the details of our work. Please feel free to also share this information with anyone you think may be impacted by our project.

Proof of Life Update

Please note due to a staff shortage the reception will be unable to provide the proof of life service on Friday this week.
 
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

St. Barnabas building

St Swithuns are in negotiation to sell the St Barnabas building to the Town Council, this is following requests from residents in the Dunnings area to keep the building in community use. The Council is aware of repeated calls for a venue for a youth club, men’s shed, and ‘mother & toddler’ groups and feels this venue would be suitable to be retained in the community.

In order to finance the purchase, the Council is looking to borrow £90,000 from the Public Works Loan Board for 10 years but needs to show that the community supports the purchase of the building. For more information, the reports have been taken through the Finance and General Purposes Committee and can be found on the Council’s website.

If you wish to comment on the proposal please email townclerk@eastgrinstead.gov.uk or write to Town Clerk East Grinstead Town Council, College Lane, East Grinstead by 1 July 2022.

Jubilee Event: Thursday (2nd June) King George’s Field

East Grinstead Town Council and Town Twinning invite you to join us From 4pm bring your picnics along and enjoy Meridian FM entertaining you with music. There are also some inflatables for the youngsters to have a go on (all for free)!

From 6pm-8pm we have some community activities in the ring : Scouts and Guides will pitch themselves against each other to see who can get a tent up quickest, then Town Twinning are going to host a dog show, who has to most regal or best dressed doggie in town! (with thanks to Portland Vets East Grinstead for sponsoring the prizes).

From 8pm-9:30pm Meridian FM will keep you entertained with the music until the build up to the Beacon Lighting from 9:35pm with the Town Mayor reading the proclamation, followed by a playing of Diu Regnare for the bagpipes and then “Majesty” for the cornet and then at 9:45pm the Town Mayor will light the Beacon.

Join us all afternoon or just for the Beacon lighting, as we join the nation in marking the Queens Platinum Jubilee.

Adam Peacock is Town Mayor 2022-23

New Town Mayor Cllr Adam Peacock and his Deputy Cllr Frazer Visser were invested at the Annual Town Council on Monday 9 May. Cllr Peacock’s charities in his Mayoral year are East Grinstead Lions Club and Being Neighbourly EG.  The new mayor saying that there were many worthy local causes and he wanted to support two that were directly supporting families and individuals during this difficult economic time.

The Mayormaking (Annual Council Meeting) was the first to be held in person for two years following the disruption from Covid during 2020 and 2021.  Outgoing Mayor Cllr John Dabell had been invested at the end of September 2020 following his predecessor completing an elongated stint of 15 months, and was re-elected in May 2021 with the hope that the year would be more normal,  sadly more lockdowns and restrictions meant that 2021/22 also had its challenges.

Cllr Dabell had however, hosted a quiz, murder mystery and hoedown and raised £3,105 for each of his two charities. Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and St Catherine’s Hospice.