News
New community charity launched
A local community charity has been formed to help fund and improve facilities, activities and services for the community. The charity will provisionally be called Trotton Area Support Community Association (to be known as TASC-force) and its formation was part of the parish priorities action plan launched by the parish council last year, following its residents survey the previous autumn.
A working... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2025
Two vacancies for members of parish council
Two members, Chris Cullen (current co-chair) and Anne Stephens resigned from the PC last night (22 Jan) as they feel unable to dedicate the necessary time to the PC along with their growing commitments elsewhere. Notices of the vacancy have been published today and the district council are expected to authorise the PC to co-opt two new members on 14th February, at which point a call for interested... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2025
National Grid to work on parish overhead lines through to November 2025
National Grid has provided some information about upcoming works in the Parish over this year as part of the Lovedean to Bolney Overhead Line Refurbishment. This line consists of 190 steel towers (pylons) with two circuits. We need to refurbish each circuit and this will be done separately to allow electricity provision to be maintained when the power is turned off on one side of the towers. There... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 9 Jan 2025
Vacancy on parish council filled
Dominic Ferguson has been elected to replace Colleen Homan as a member of the council and attended his first meeting on 25th September 2024. He will also take over Colleen's responsibilities for community support and the parish emergency plan.
Dominic grew up in Chithurst and his mother was an active member of the parish council for many years. After a career in finance, he qualified as an arborist... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 26 Sep 2024
SDNP design award voting open
Following the success of the inaugural awards in 2019, the South Downs Design Awards are back.
Design Awards recognise and promote high standards of design and raise awareness of the positive contribution that good design can make to the quality of our local environments.
The Awards celebrate projects that have made a standout contribution to the landscape, heritage, built environment and our local communities.... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 29 Jul 2024
Annual accounting return published and accounts available for public inspection
Monday June 10th, 2024
This is a statutory notice that the parish council has approved its annual governance and accountability return and that the period of public rights to view its unaudited accounts for the financial year 2023/24 will open on Monday 10th June and close on Friday 19th July 2024. If you wish to inspect the accounts, please apply to the parish clerk by email at clerk@trottonpc.org.uk... Read More »
Posted: Mon, 10 Jun 2024
Parish action plan approved, team leaders appointed
At its meeting on 10 January, the parish council approved the initial action plan drafted by the priorities task group and based on the residents survey in autumn 2023.
As part of the plan, parish council members agreed to lead one action plan team each and to recruit non-PC members to join their team, in an attempt to broaden the input and resources of the teams.
These teams should now be recruited... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2024
Parish priorities statement submitted to SDNPA
Like 2/3 of the parishes in the South Downs National Park, our parish council (PC) had decided it did not have the resources or the need to produce a neighbourhood development plan meeting the requirements laid down by the government in 2016. However, the 2023 Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill introduced a much less proscribed and onerous way for parishes to set out their visions for the future and... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 17 Oct 2023
Trotton bonfire & fireworks 2023 event cancelled
Sadly, the popular Trotton bonfire and fireworks event will not take place this year, due to late notice of no venue!
Our traditional "bonfire field" was previously owned by the Cowdrey Estate, who leased it to farmers with a condition that they must allow this community event every Nov 5. However, they did not include this condition in the recent sale agreement and the new owner informed us - too late... Read More »
Posted: Sun, 15 Oct 2023
Annual audit completed
The annual audit by the government-appointed auditor, required because the one-off "Operation Watershed" work on drains near Trotton Bridge pushed our expenditure / income above £25,000, has been completed, with our annual return figures fully approved.
Posted: Thu, 24 Aug 2023
