HOOE COMMUNITY NEWS REPORTS.
Our Coffee Mornings.
May we thank the many that attended our coffee morning, it is wonderful to be a part of the community that is Hooe that get together for these events.
It is good to welcome two involved local residents, Jenny Fuller and Nina Siddall-Ward as Members of the Hooe Parish Council. We know that their informed contributions will be much appreciated.
Every year HVCG organises the Village Community Clean up, and every year our lanes and verges give up loads of discarded rubbish. Fast food wrappers, bottles and cans, tyres and signs, dumped household items, road cones and builders boards, and so the list goes on... and on... and on! Please see below the photo of the concerned and caring members of the community who took part, and the photos of the dumped rubbish that they collected. Please click on the images for a larger version.
Localism Plus!
The Hooe Common Nature Reserve, known locally as The Bogs, is an area little touched for many centuries, and because of its marshy undulating nature, has only been grazed. Consequently, it's one of the few remaining UK habitats for rare flora and fauna. Thanks to the active support local people give to HVCG, we were able to ask the Herstmonceux Men's Shed to build bird boxes and bat boxes in return for a small donation of £100. We presented these to Owen, from the Powdermill Trust for Nature Conservation, and assisted in installing them at the Bogs immediately! We are grateful to Owen and his Team who managed The Bogs on our behalf.
Please click on the pictures below for the full story.
Road and Rural Issues
On Friday 10th January HVCG was delighted to welcome our MP, Dr Kieran Mullan to Hooe. A group of 14 residents spent an hour and a half with Kieren outlining the concerns and problems experienced in the village and chewed over possible solutions. We started our road safety campaign way back in 2007 but sadly, since then our problems have increased. The opening of the new road and the designation of the Top Road as a dispersal route has added to the weight and speed of traffic using the rural road. Some of the topics we raised with Kieran were speeding vehicles and speed limits, rat runs, heavy vehicles, unsocial driving, use by oversized heavy vehicles, the dangerous junction with the A.259 at The Lamb Inn, lack of clear diversion routes in the event of unexpected closure of the A259 as a result of accidents or road works. And of course, potholes and the general state of the road surfaces. We all left the meeting with ‘homework! Kieran has agreed to meet with us again in a few months to enable us to compare progress which we hope we will have been able to make.