Buxted Community Hall Meeting Held at 11

Buxted Community Hall Meeting held at 11.30 on 7th November 2013 at 9 Broad Oak, Buxted

Present: Nick Tricker (chair), George Claydon, Eileen Claydon, Maggie Dopson, Pauline Bonner, Sheila Bartholomew

Item

Discussion

Action

1

Progress with Trust’s aims

2

Financial Report

3.

AGM Arrangements

The meeting ended at 12.45.

BCHT Statement

The trustees of the Buxted Community Hall Trust understand that WDC is discussing with the Parish Council the imposition of restrictions on the future use of the existing Reading Room in Church Road, Buxted, as a condition of any planning consent for the proposed new Buxted Community Hall. In particular the Trust hears that WDC demands from the Parish Council a legally binding signed document to the effect that the existing Reading Room could only be used as a storage facility or the site as public car parking if the new Hall is allowed to proceed. If correct, we wish to put it on record that we deplore what we consider is a draconian abuse of their authority.

It has always been the intention that the proceeds of any disposal by the Parish Council of the old premises would be made available to the trustees to part-fund the hall. If, in the future, the 7Km exclusion zone was to be relaxed, we - and most probably the local residents - would feel that any restrictive conditions about the use of the Reading Room would be to the detriment of the proposed new hall.