November 15, 2024
Welcome to this week's blog. As always, thank you for sparing the time to have a read.
This week the whole team had an Extraordinary Full STC on Wednesday before Mick, Val, Ali, Andrew and Gareth had Planning. On Thursday Donna and Val had CDC’s Housing, Communities, Culture & Sport Panel. Next week, Andrew, Ian, Donna and I have an Extraordinary STC Personnel Committee. Then on Tuesday it is Full CDC for Steve, Val, Donna and I; meanwhile on Wednesday Val and Donna have CDC’s Development, Planning and Infrastructure Panel. Watch CDC’s public meetings
Christmas is coming: -
On Saturday the 23rd the ‘Light up Chichester’ Christmas lights switch-on includes local festive drinks and treats throughout the day as part of a foodie event organised by CDC, featuring a variety of the city’s eateries including bars, restaurants and cafes with pop-up stalls in East Street from 10am until 6pm.
On Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th it is The Weald and Downland Museum’s Advent and Christmas Market.
On Saturday the 30th the High Street in Selsey will be closed from 12:00 to 19:30 for a procession, a Santa in his grotto and more. From 2:30pm The Friends of East Beach, thanks to a grant from Selsey Town Council, have a free grotto, free face painter, stalls, a funfair and the Grinch, Disney Princesses Aurora and Ariel, and several elves
From December 7th to 15th, the City has a programme of events in The Guildhall in Priory Park including a pantomime, music, art and craft sessions for families and storytelling for children, plus silent discos to link in with The Novium Museum’s new exhibition, ‘I Grew up 80s’. The Christmas Market also returns for 9 days from the 9th.
CDC has teamed up with St Wilfrid’s Hospice again for their Christmas Tree Recycling Scheme. (10-13 January 2025, bookings close on 6 January - the suggested donation is £15 per tree.)
Selsey Town Council’s Offices are an official donation point for the V2 Radio Christmas Toy Appeal, which is asking for new, unwrapped toys.
Our interesting reads this week are, with Christmas coming, food and fitness related: cutting one food can help memory, some processed foods are good for us and some exercises boost sleep.
Just before we move on from the Festive season, CDC has a series of parking offers. For the big Christmas lights switch-on event in the City on the 23rd, there will be free parking in the Avenue de Chartres car park from 4pm. During December, customers using the MiPermit app who select two hours during weekends will receive a third hour for free. This will apply across the majority of council car parks except the Avenue de Chartres, which will be free on Sundays.
A multi-million pound project to investigate options and designs for new Selsey sea defences has reached a key milestone, following the appointment of a specialist engineering consultant. They will investigate options and designs that will make it possible to progress the project and open up further funding opportunities. Earlier this year, CDC successfully bid for £2.9 million from the Environment Agency to support this important project to help reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion along the 4km of Selsey coastline. Led by Coastal Partners, the council’s coastal engineering service, the options and design stage of the project will focus on identifying the types of coastal management that are needed.
The coastal defences for Selsey involve a number of elements, including seawalls, rock revetments, groynes and beach. Over the last decade, the council has undertaken a very successful programme of beach management through shingle replenishment and Environment Agency funding is currently in place to continue these works until March 2026. This has helped protect the ageing seawalls from major storms and protected local properties.
CDC is reminding businesses to make sure that they are prepared for the introduction of new government rules that effect how they dispose of their waste. The ‘Simpler Recycling’ reforms, which come into force in March 2025, mean that businesses must have separate food waste and recycling collections in place. This is being introduced to maximise use, minimise waste and drive-up recycling rates. Food waste cannot go in the general waste bin and a separate collection will need to be in place, regardless of the amount of food waste produced.
Recyclable materials that are required to be separated from general waste include: glass, such as drink bottles and rinsed empty food jars; metal, such as drinks cans and food tins; plastic, such as rinsed empty food containers and bottles; paper, such as old newspapers and envelopes; and cardboard, such as delivery boxes and packaging. These items can be mixed in one bin and do not have to be individually segregated. Those businesses with fewer than 10 full-time employees have until 31 March 2027 to meet those requirements.
Finally: -
As always, from the whole Team, stay safe.
Tim
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