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Parish council proposes to rename itself
Within a year or two, we'll be electing a mayor to run the whole of Sussex and it looks as though a big, new "unitary authority" will take over everything that is currently done by our district council in Chichester and West Sussex County Council. That could leave a deep gap between our community and this new body.
We, your parish council, believe it's time to think about how our tiny community sees...
Posted: Tue, 18 Nov 2025
Final consultation starts on the "future of local government in West Sussex"
The Government has asked councils to explore how local government reorganisation could work in our area, with the aim of replacing the current county, district and borough councils with a new council or councils responsible for all your local services from April 2028.
This aims to make services simpler for residents and businesses across West Sussex.
You have until 13th August to complete the consultation...
Posted: Fri, 4 Jul 2025
Annual governance & accountability return approved - accounts available to public
At its meeting on 28th May 2025 the parish council approved the official Annual Governance & Accountability Return and agreed to make the parish accounts open to inspection between 3rd June sand 14th July. The accounts can be inspected by calling 01730 207447 or emailing:
clerk@trotton-with-chithurst.org.uk or
Posted: Fri, 30 May 2025
Two vacancies for members of parish council
Two members, Chris Cullen (current co-chair) and Anne Stephens have resigned from the parish council and the electoral services department at Chichester District Council has notified us that no local residents have called for a full election in response to our notice of the two vacancies on the parish council, we have been legally instructed to fill the vacancies by co-opting new members – so...
Posted: Wed, 12 Feb 2025
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2024
