Clerk: Ann E. Newton (Mrs), 'Highlands', Blackboys, East Sussex, TN22 5LR

Tel: 01825 890182,

www.easthoathlywithhalland.org.uk

East Hoathly with Halland Parish Council

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Site last updated August 2010

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Within the parish there are areas of commercial units, craft workshops and former farm-buildings that provide employment for local people. Sadly the large area in the centre of East Hoathly designated for commercial use is becoming a wasteland that does not meet the present demands of the twenty-first century market place and business requirements. The parish has a highly active community fully utilising its many clubs and making regular use of its 3 pubs and village hall and playing fields, the latter two of which are showing signs of old age. The Cricket Club was founded in 1759. Of more recent vintage the Bonfire Society leads a very colourful procession of similar societies through the parish every November on the Saturday preceding Remembrance Sunday; its proud motto being “Lest We Forget” The parish is twinned with Juziers in France and has an annual rotating visit. The village primary school and church add much colour to the life of the community. Surrounded by open countryside the parish is traversed by the Wealdway and Vanguard long distance footpaths.

East Hoathly has 821 persons on the register of electors and Halland has 274.

The most recent council tax base for properties in the parish shows the following distribution:

In 2002 the parish council decided to produce a Parish Plan and set up a committee comprising members of the council and parishioners. The first step in the process was to carry out a parish appraisal in the form of a questionnaire that sought the views of every parishioner over the age of eleven on a range of topics that affected their daily lives. The completed questionnaires were sent to a professional analyst who produced

a report. (See Appendix).

In 2003 a new committee, again made up of parishioners and councillors, used the report, to produce a “draft parish plan consultation document” that was widely publicised during the early part of 2004. Many parishioners commented on this document and their feedback was considered when a first draft parish plan was prepared. This draft was again subjected to public consultation before being edited and ratified by the parish council in May 2004.

The Parish Plan is a list of objectives reflecting parishioners’ wishes about how their parish will develop.  It will be used to guide the parish council in conducting its business. It is a living and evolving document which parishioners will be able to influence. An individual councillor will have ownership of a section of the Plan (or, in the case of large sections such as Housing and Commercial Development, two or more councillors will share ownership). Progress and issues will be regularly discussed in council ensuring the Plan moves forward and adapts to changing circumstances.