THIRD video footage of the Sidlesham Parish Council meeting held on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026

Описание: THE THIRD video footage of the Sidlesham Parish Council meeting held in the the St Mary's Parish Rooms in the Manhood Peninsula village in West Sussex on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026. This video starts with the tail-end of the second video when Cllr Mellodey clarified the planning schedule for the local government reorganisation. Unfortunately, the chairman and treasurer of the Sidlesham Community Association (SCA) had been doubled-booked and was manning the bar for a Skittles Evening at the village's Memorial Hall and couldn't so give the meeting an update on the Memorial Hall & Recreation Ground business accounts yesterday. The parish councillors went on to briefly mention the demise of The Spread newsletter, which Cllr Melloday said had left a hole in their publicity, and the on-going grant application for heating in the clubhouse and annexe put in by Cllr Nick Wade who Cllr Mellodey explained was ill so couldn't attend yesterday's meeting. Cllr Parsons asked the Chair if the parish council could create an action to request the lead authorities responsible to enact a S19 investigate recent flooding issues as she stressed that "would be expected from the residents". Cllr Mellody said the parish council needed to know "what the structure is" of "who is responsible for what". Cllr said the lady who was due to speak at the Annual Meeting was due to explain this matter in details and that Manhood Peninsula rifes were the responsibility of the Environment Agency (EA), but WSCC dealt with structures, such as roadways, culverts etc. Cllr Parsons pointed out that the WSCC were only responsible for public culverts, and said that this "was the concern" at the Bremere development. She told the meeting that maps and historic CDC planning applications should pinpoint responsibly at Bremere - whether it be Bremere Management or the Highways contractor. Cllr David Guest gave the meeting a definition of the Sussex term of a rife - leading up to to it by explaining that rifes on the Manhood Peninsula had been natural water courses which were later historically managed as ditches for farming on the low-lying fields and by the Land Settlement Association (LSA) in the 1930s. The meeting heard a brief update on the Business Forum and councillors agreed to defer the issue of the hole in publicity left by The Spread newsletter to a later meeting after quite a lengthy discussion on the item which I mentioned in my Facebook social media page. The meeting heard that a resident had complained to the Parish Council about the state of the Sidlesham Quay, which Cllr Mellodey said his fellow Cllr Nick Wade had researched and discovered that Sidlesham Parish Council was responsible for its maintenance.