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Call for Volunteers - Tree planting in St Aubyns Field. Tree planting initiatives play a crucial role in enhancing community spaces and promoting environmental sustainability. The newly created St Aubyn’s Community Field in Rottingdean offers a brilliant location for planting a community orchard. This initiative aims to provide local residents with access to fresh fruit and nuts, while also creating habitat havens for wildlife. The project, delivered in partnership with Brighton Permaculture Trust and Brighton & Hove City Council, involves planting and caring for 22 fruit and nut trees on the site. We are looking for volunteers, guided by experts, to help dig holes, put in posts, and provide supports and protection for the trees. We invite local residents and other volunteers to join us in this effort. The planting sessions are scheduled for Thursday, 13th February 2025, and Thursday, 20th February 2025, from 10 am to 4 pm. You can find out more and sign up here
Beacon Hill Nature Report for 2024 published.
The Beacon Hill Nature Reserve annual report is now online and can be found here. The report includes information about the work of the Friends of Beacon Hill, the City Park Ranger and about the plants and wildlife on the Nature Reserve.
Be a Councillor! A Councillor vacancy has arisen on Rottingdean Parish Council Are you interested in applying? Serving on the Council will give you the opportunity to play a vital role in shaping the future of the Parish. You will represent the interests of the local community and contribute to the Council’s work maintaining and improving local facilities and services. It is a rewarding role and we would welcome your experience in helping us achieve our ambitious goals. Find out more and download and complete the application form and eligibility declaration here
St Aubyn’s Community Field Update December 2024
A recent site inspection showed good progress in all areas with some minor remedial work needed on the bund at the south of the field, to the recently installed artistic component and to the pavilion. The grass is bedding in nicely, and the newly planted trees along the southern edge of the field are settling in well. The grant application to the Forestry Commission's Urban Tree Challenge Fund for 36 trees has been successful and we are working with City Parks and Brighton Permaculture Trust (BPT) to identify the best possible mix of species. Bird and bat boxes have already been installed in a number of trees on the north side of the Field by Steyning Road. In addition, the Rottingdean in Bloom team, led by Helen Clark, have generously donated and planted 250 daffodil bulbs around the northwest entrance to the park and around the war memorial by the pavilion. These will provide a cheering splash of colour when they come into bloom next year. More details can be found here
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Rottingdean Parish Council
Rottingdean is the only Parish Council in the Brighton and Hove area funded by a small addition to the Council Tax (the precept). There are 9 Councillors elected every four years. Rottingdean Council’s aim is to:
- To preserve and protect the natural environment, seafront, green spaces and character of our village
- To promote and enhance the quality of village community life, services and amenities
- To monitor and influence priorities for the development of the built environment, highways, traffic, and pathways by working closely with relevant BHCC departments
In all our work and indeed in deciding how best to use our delegated powers the Parish Councillors, who remain unremunerated, always have the best interests of residents in mind. Having a Parish Council is a vital part of local democracy ensuring the Rottingdean residents have much more say in the future of the village and that the interests of residents are directly represented in wider decisions on infrastructure and planning. The Parish Council’s delegated powers mean we can contribute to a range of local services and amenities which may otherwise be given a much lower priority given the pressures on Brighton and Hove City Council.
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To preserve and protect the natural environment, seafront, green spaces and character of our village
- By maintaining the Village Pond
- Through the Beacon Hill Nature Reserve Stewardship Group
- The installation of a new Pond Path
To promote and enhance the quality of village community life, services and amenities
- Making the Lower High Street a pedestrian priority area
- Refurbishing Park Road Toilets
- Providing Grant funding to local community groups and charities
- Providing a new green space at the centre of the Village – St Aubyns Field
- Supporting artistic and cultural events
- Promoting tourism and economic activity
- Working with BHCC to improve the Air Quality in the High Street
To monitor and influence priorities for the development of the built environment, highways, traffic, and pathways by working closely with relevant BHCC departments
- Scrutinising all planning applications
- Working with BHCC to manage Air Quality
- Co-funding pavement repair on the High Street
- Working with BHCC on a solution for lighting of the Twitten
Rottingdean Council is funded by a small amount added to the Council tax (the Council tax precept) that is agreed in April each year. Funds are used to improve to the Village environment and make grants and donations to initiatives and activities which benefit the Community. Our grant application form and guidance can be found here
The Parish Council has a number of Advisory Groups that consider the detail of proposals and make recommendations to the full Parish Council to consider. See more here
First created in November 2010, this website is regularly updated and new ideas for content are often added. As well as providing public information, the Parish Council wishes to hear your feedback, ideas and comments, so please e-mail your views direct to us at enquiries@rottingdean-pc.gov.uk
The current Rottingdean Parish Councillors are:
Clerk to the Parish Council: Chris Hayes
enquiries@rottingdean-pc.gov.uk