Fairlight Focus

Hi everyone

Firstly, many many thanks for those that came along and auditioned.  We are so sorry that you haven’t heard which parts you have got yet. 

We are hoping to get the list out on Monday evening.  It’s been a very hard task, so please forgive us while we deliberate!

Once the cast list is out, you will be able to collect your scripts from Ann’s house at any time.  They will be in a box in my porch (which is never locked as the door wont lock!)

Our first get together will be for the read through on August 8th.  We will let you know then what the rehearsal schedule will be for August.  Not everyone will be needed at every rehearsal, although you are, of course, very welcome to come along (and bring cake!)

Very best wishes

Ann and Giselle

Dear resident

Please click the link for the agenda for the Parish Council meeting to be held on Tuesday 23rd July at 7pm in the Village Hall

This is an open meeting and members of the Public are welcome to attend

Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council
Kerri, 35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Dear resident

Please note that the Parish Council Planning Committee meeting has been cancelled due to the lack of applications being received

Thanks
Pauline

Dear Resident,

We hope to see you at the Fairlight Gardening Club Annual Show on Saturday – public viewing 1.30pm-2.30pm followed by Auction of exhibits and presentation of the trophies

Please see attached agenda for Fairlight Pavilion Meeting this Friday 7pm Village Hall

Dear Stargazers!

The Fairlight Astronomers will be meeting on Thursday 11^th July at 7:00pm in the Village Hall. The event will be open to all residents who share an interest in the night skies that we have here in Fairlight.

The evening will comprise of two short talks, “Wide Field Astrophotography”, and “Aurora, what causes them, and why they glow different colours”. As usual, light refreshments will be served during the break.

A small entry fee of £3.00 per person, or £5.00 per couple is asked for to offset hall hire charges.

We look forward to seeing as many keen stargazers as possible!

Chris Smart

07947 766 999

Hi everyone

163 years (almost to the day) since Charles Dickens read extracts from his “Christmas Carol” at a Music Hall in Hastings, he (or somebody looking remarkably like him) returns to the area to narrate this well-loved story at Fairlight Village Hall.

Yes, the Fairlight Players will be staging this wonderful play between 7^th and 9^th November 2024 and, if you are half as excited by the prospect as Ann Hohenkerk, you should be in for a real treat.

Ann, along with co-conspirator Giselle Youseman, will be directing this play for us, and they already have plenty of ideas to make it an absolute feast for the senses.

As always, the preparation starts some months before the event, with a familiarisation evening on July 11^th and auditions one week later.

A fairly large cast with a wide range of ages gives ample opportunities for involvement, both for the more experienced thespian, and for those thinking about treading the boards for the first time.

And, of course, a substantial team is required behind the scenes to make the show happen.

The attached poster gives more details. If you would like to be involved in any way, please come along and say “hello”.

With best wishes

Keith

Keith Miller (Chair)

The Fairlight Players

www.fairlightplayers.org.uk

Notice is hereby given, that for the following purposes, Fairlight Friday Lunch Club (MOPP’s) 2024 Annual General Meeting will be held at Fairlight Village Hall on Friday 26th July 2024 at 11am:

1.   To receive the accounts for the year ended 2023 and 2024

2.   To elect Committee Members and officers

3.   To provide an opportunity for Member’s feedback

By order of the Committee

Dated 05.07.24

Annette Holmes

Co-ordinator

Marsham Older People’s Project (MOPP)

www.fairlightmopp.co.uk

If you have anything that you wish to be included on the agenda you are requested to email Annette Holmes (Co-ordinator) at mopps.fairlight@gmail.com  by noon of Friday 19th July 2024.

Dear resident

Please find attached the Parish Council newsletter for July 2024

Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council
Kerri, 35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 

Dear Residents

For those of you interested in the ‘Market Garden’ site please find attached our most recent meeting notes.

Also an enormous thank you to the 99 people who completed the ‘Loss of Amenity’ survey which closed last Sunday.

Dr Colwell will be analysing the data and we hope to publish the results in time for the ‘Rother District Council Local Plan Exhibition’, at Fairlight Village Hall on Thursday 11 July, 3pm – 7pm.

If you require more information or would like to get involved, please email or phone on 01424 812038.

Best wishes, Paul.

Great news!

The full relining, where needed, of all our wastewater pipes has been brought forward and will commence shortly.

Attached is the regular monthly update and a letter from Southern Water that explain things fully.

Regards

Chris Bunch – For the Pathfinder Project

The Rother Planners will be here with lots of displays about the Local Plan.

It’s your chance to ask questions before you send in your comments.

Dear Residents

For those of you who are interested in ‘Parked Vehicle Hotspots in the Village’ please find attached our last ‘Meeting Notes’ and ‘Action Plan’.

We were pleased that representatives from Rother District Council, Fairlight Parish Council, Fairlight Residents Association, Fairlight Preservation Trust, Fairlight Village Hall, Fairlight Pavilion and Lower Waites Lane Maintenance Association were able to join us and participate in resolving the issues. Along with our local journalist Keith Pollard.

If you require more information or would like to get involved, please email or phone on 01424 812038.

Best wishes,
Paul

To all those who couldn’t make it to the Fairfest event this past weekend, please see a short video that hopefully captures some highlights, and shows what you missed!

Chris Smart

Dear resident

Please click the link for the agenda for the Parish Council Finance and Administration meeting to be held on Tuesday 2nd July at 7pm in the Village Hall

This is an open meeting and members of the Public are welcome to attend

Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council
Kerri, 35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 

FAIRFEST 

The Fairfest Committee would like to say a BIG Thank You to everyone who helped in any way to make this year’s FAIRFEST a success.

If you were the person who organised the weather 🌞  we are especially grateful!

We welcome any positive feedback 😀

The Fairfest Committee 

Dear Resident,

Please see the forwarded information below.

Andrew

Subject:Upcoming works: Woodland Way, Fairlight

Good afternoon,

I am writing to inform you of upcoming footway and carriageway works on Woodland Way, Fairlight.

These works are being carried out between Wednesday 3^rd and Thursday 4^th July.

This is the second phase of our concrete road refurbishment programme.

Works will include :

·       Targeted concrete bay repairs

·       Iron works (replacement or adjustment) 

·       Kerbing and footway repairs

·       Road Marking reinstatement 

·       Some areas of the carriageway may need to be barriered off over night to allow materials to cure.  

There may be delays between 8am and 5pm

Dear Residents,
Our lobby group Village People was set up in response to issues with the Market Garden Construction Site, Lower Waites Lane, Fairlight Cove TN35 4DB from June 2022.

We are seeking to hold the Developers and Local Authorities to account for compliance within planning consent, building regulations and various laws.

We hope you will spare 20 minutes to fill in this survey, so your voice is heard: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MFR885G

Your answers will be anonymous.

If you would prefer to complete the survey on paper or via email please contact VillagePeopleChetz@gmail.com

Thank you.

Dear resident

Please find attached a notice in respect of the Community Infrastructure Levy monies received by Fairlight Parish Council.

Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council Kerri,
35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 

Hello Fairlight!
Activate Y.C are responsible for the teas and cakes at 
FAIRFEST 2024.

But WE NEED HELP!
If anybody could offer to bake a cake or perhaps help serve during the Sunday
afternoon please contact us on
youthclubactivate@gmail.com or familyhatch1@gmail.com
See the poster attached.
Many thanks in anticipation.

Dear Stargazers!

The Fairlight Astronomers will be meeting on Thursday 13^th June at 7:00pm in the Village Hall. The event will be open to all residents who share an interest in the night skies that we have here in Fairlight.

The evening will comprise of two short talks, “processing your star images”, and “how to set up a telescope”. As usual, light refreshments will be served during the break.

A small entry fee of £3.00 per person, or £5.00 per couple is asked for to offset hall hire charges.

We look forward to seeing as many keen stargazers as possible!

Chris Smart

07947 766 999

FREE NHS HEARING AID BATTERIES & MAINTENANCE

Local NHS hearing aid maintenance sessions are being held this week at:

Pett Village Hall between 10am and 11.30am on Wednesday 5th June

Fairlight Village Hall between 10am and 12 noon on Friday 7th June

Remember that for peak performance hearing aids should be re-tubed every 4 to 6 months

You can get your tickets for the Fish & Chip Lunch from DISH on Monday, or contact me on 07967 396594 or by email at  cllrcsharpe.fairlightpc@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce that the new slide and toddler swings in the play park have been inspected and passed so they are now fully open.
Do go up and test them out with your little ones!

Fairlight Parish Council

I am finally catching up with paperwork after our very successful event on the 30^th April.  We had 70 people attend Lorna Vahey’s talk on her unique and talented parents, Fred and Zoe.  If you couldn’t make it we did manage to record some of it so do drop by the ARC room on a Thursday afternoon between 2-4 to view it. We will also update our website with additional photos and paintings from the presentation, so look out for them.

As you know, we are a not-for-profit group but we do have to find money to pay our rent, broadband, insurance, website service, etc. We are very fortunate to have ongoing support from the three Parish Councils and this year we have had a donation from the Pett Flower Show and the Fairlight Residents Association.  However, it helps enormously to show we  have the support from individuals from our three communities too.   It also means volunteers can spend less time on raising funds and more time on cataloguing the more than 5,000 items we have, which is a time-consuming task.

Remember you can help us in other ways too, such as using any of your past skills as a volunteer, scanning and cataloguing what we have (this can be done from home once you are trained) or sorting through your photos, keepsakes, etc. that show our past history.  And, of course, our present history will become our past history! 

The ARC is a labour of love to make sure we secure those past images and memories for future residents when we are long gone.  Our aim is also to give everyone easy access to those records by opening on Thursday afternoons, or if we can, by request.  You are welcome, as a Friend, to browse what we have even if it is not yet catalogued.

If you would like to help us by becoming a Friend, I have attached a membership form.

If you wish to be removed from receiving emails, please also let me know.

Many thanks.

Fran Rogers

archiveresourcecentre@outlook.com
Located at Pett Methodist Church
Tel: 01424 813533 (please leave a message)
www.thearc.uk

Dear resident
Please click here for the agenda for the Parish Council Finance and Administration meeting to be held on Tuesday 4th June at 7pm in the Village Hall
This is an open meeting and members of the Public are welcome to attend
Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council
Kerri, 35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 

Dear resident

Please click here for the agenda for the Parish Council Planning Committee meeting to be held on Monday 3rd June at 4pm in the Village Hall

This is an open meeting and members of the Public are welcome to attend

Thanks
Pauline

Mrs P Collins
Proper Officer and Responsible Financial Officer
Fairlight Parish Council
Kerri, 35 Waites Lane, Fairlight, Hastings. TN35 4AX
Tel: 07487 822729  Email: fairlightparishcouncil@gmail.com
Working days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday