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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
Ropetackle Compulsory Purchase Planning Enquiry
28 November 2001I have now received the Proof of Evidence of Contamination of the Ropetackle site.
A brief inspection of the document now seems to indicate that it will probably be in the public interest if the site is put into one ownership to remove potential hazards to the public. I may withdraw my objections to the Compulsory Purchase Order. This information was not revealed at the Outline Planning Enquiry.
Now I can understand why Outline Planning went through to enable these CPO to go through to enable the site to be cleaned up.
Individual owners can argue their own cases at the Public Enquiry.
I expect that between the Outline and Detailed Planning there will be lots of alterations.
Possible contamination of Ropetackle because of the following uses:
1) Corporation Yard
2) Gas Works/Solid Fuel Storage
3) Asbestos Storage
4) Boathouses/Possible Victorian landfill
5) Car Repair Works/Coach Works
6) Car Retrieval Yard
7) Mortuary
8) Precision Engineering
9) Dry Cleaners
10) Shipbuilding
In places the report says that contaminated ash fill is extensive over the site, and this has been recorded in excess of 1 metre in thickness.
Preliminary tests revealed that the contaminants found that the site in its existing condition (except for the old Council Yard) is not suitable for domestic gardens or public open space.
Contamination includes zinc, arsenic, lead, mercury, copper, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
However, the asbestos levels were not found, nor radiation. However, these levels although exceeded the domestic garden levels, in most cases they did not exceed the levels for parks and open spaces, so it seems that the levels are not too bad.
There remains the question whether the removal of the soil with contaminants will cause more problems than covering them up. As they plan to raise the land levels to prevent flooding, my backing is that will cover over the mildly contaminated soil, as it appears there is no threat to groundwater, only contaminating the tidal river (my comment). The Adur has copper in excess of acceptable levels (this will be particle of - this is my research).
This is after just a skim through the extensive document.
Summary by Andy Horton
Marlipin's Museum
Planning Application: SU219/01/TP
The Planning Application was passed despite being very ordinary and without a vent for air conditioning and humidity control for proper museum displays.
South Downs National Park : Proposed Area
On 27 November 2001, the Countryside Agency will be starting a public consultation on the designation of a National Park for the South Downs. Detailed 1:25,000 scale maps will be available from 27 November 2001, for further information about the designation process visit the Countryside Agency's website at
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/proposednationalparks/southdowns.htm
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/SDmap1.htm
Old Boundaries:
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/Areaofsearchmap.jpgClick on the URL for the complete map
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Notes10 November 2001
The chill of the last two days finally brought an end to the above average temperatures of October. However, a Red Admiral Butterfly fluttered across my south Lancing garden.Report by Ray Hamblett5 November 2001A Red Admiral Butterfly fluttered strongly over my front garden in Corbyn Crescent, Shoreham (TQ 224 053), the first of this species I had recorded in this residential street.
November 2001 Butterflies (All of Britain)3 November 2001
A late Red Admiral Butterfly flew up from the shrubbery around Glynebourne Court opposite the Civic Centre near the centre of Shoreham. Most, but not all, of these butterfly reports are in the town so they may be hibernating insects being disturbed and this is what Allen Pollard thought this was the case of a Peacock Butterfly and two Red Admirals at Shermanbury.
Adur Butterflies
Young Goldfinches were frequently seen, notably on Middle Road Recreation Ground, Shoreham.2 November 2001
A bright still sunny day with the Shoreham waterfront buildings casting reflections into the midday spring high tide with Mute Swan cygnets, now the full adult size, on both the River Adur estuary near the footbridge and on Widewater Lagoon.
Red Admiral Butterflies were frequent (30+), singly everywhere where there was vegetation and over the shingle beach, Adur levels and the river. All the butterflies were flying strongly and in good condition.The most interesting insect around was a small darter dragonfly with a salmon-pink abdomen, which was almost certainly the Common Darter Dragonfly, Sympetrum striolatum. On the Adur levels (TQ 209 068) they were mating over the duckweed stream and they were frequently seen (25+) on the flood plain and on the towpath by the Airport. The abdomen appeared slightly bent when this dragonfly settled.
Dragonfly Flight Times
Pretty young Goldfinches were in the bushes on the railway track south of Old Shoreham. A male Kestrel perched on the wooden stork sculpture. My distinct impression was the small size of this falcon compared to the female. It left its perch to dive amongst the grasses and then quickly returned to its look-out post.1 November 2001
A solitary House Martin flew north over Lancing Beach Green in the late afternoon. This bird was bit late on its migration to Africa, but stragglers are not particularly unusual.
A Full Moon at 5.43 am
October 2001
It ws the warmest October on record, although there was no days of really fine sunny weather after a poor summer.31 October 2001
I do not know if this will be the last butterfly of 2001, but a strong flying good condition Red Admiral fluttered around the tree and shrubbery in the Somerfield Supermarket forecourt, in the central town part of Shoreham-by-sea. Red Admirals were reported from Lancing and Shermanbury, and a darter dragonfly was also reported from the latter northern part of the Adur valley by Allen Pollard.
Adur Butterflies
Adur Wildlife Gallery
WINTER Nature Notes 2001 JANUARY - MARCH SPRING Nature Notes 2001 APRIL - JUNE SUMMER Nature Notes 2001 JULY - SEPTEMBER AUTUMN Nature Notes 2001 OCTOBER - DECEMBER
Lancing Nature & History - October 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for October
Poem or LiteraturePart of Song of Praise to West Sussex
Oh, land that holds my heart in fee,
Where'er my feet may roam,
Dear land of down and weald and sea,
I hear you call me home.
Never the south wind sings and sighs,
But the voice of your woods will fill
The mean and empty leagues between,
And my heart grows fain for the things unseen,
For coombe and hurst and Sussex skies
And the breast of a Sussex hill.A.F.Bell.
- Wildlife
Web Sites
Dragonflies of the Hampshire & Surrey Borders
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
THIS LINK HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED
This photograph (which I had not seen before) is dated about 1920 outside the King's Head, which at the focal point and west end of Shoreham-by-Sea (new name 1910) High Street features in many old photographs.
The King's Head closed in 1983 and was demolished c. 1990.Photograph provided by Pete Weaver Sussex Archaeological Society
http://www.sussexpast.co.uk
- Words
of the Week
Hydrocarbon
Many
hydrocarbons occur in nature. In addition to making up fossil fuels, they
are present in trees and plants, as, for example, in the form of pigments
called carotenes that occur in carrots and green leaves. More than 98 percent
of natural crude rubber is a hydrocarbon polymer, a chain like molecule
consisting of many units linked together.
Hydrocarbons
are insoluble in water and are less dense than water, so they float on
its surface. They are usually soluble in one another, however, as well
as in certain organic solvents. All hydrocarbons are combustible. If burned
completely with sufficient oxygen, they produce carbon dioxide and water,
releasing heat. If the oxygen is insufficient, the combustion yields mainly
carbon
monoxide.
Hydrocarbons are divided into several classes according to their structure. The two major categories are aliphatic and aromatic.
[Extract]
Photographic Gallery
Pumpkins at Slindon
Photograph
by Neil Drury
- Computer
Tips
Lancing College
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Adobe Photoshop is a the most popular professional photo-manipulation program. At first it is far from user-friendly (partially intuitive if you know both about photography and computing), but because it is so good it is worth persevering and for a photographer this facility to manipulate prints makes it worthwhile reason to get a computer on its own.
The original photograph of Lancing College on the left. It has been cropped and the photograph on the right has been artistically manipulated to get a pleasing effect - it rarely works all that well, but with this landscape I got lucky.
The
menu procedure following the menu at the top in Photoshop is:
>
Filter > Artistic > Watercolor (further options)
On the older computers, only the early versions of Photoshop will work, I use Photoshop 4 on my Pentium II computer. The latest version is Photoshop 6.
The Adur Wildlife Gallery web pages were constructed using the Express Thumbnail Gallery program which is shareware and can be discovered on the following web page:
The default files created
have the suffix *.html so anybody using the program has to be a little
bit cautious about overwriting existing files.
- Star: Latest Virus Information
Computing
Net Support Site
(for computing problems) ****
http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
The upsurge of EFora
on all subjects (a
few have been recommended before in these bulletins) are an important way
in which the Internet
will change the world.
A list of recommended eFora
are shown in the left hand column. Please make any suggestions.
See the Profusion Search method below.
SHOREHAM AIRPORT NEWS
Archaeology in Sussex to AD 1500 ****
WSCC
LIBRARY *****
Excellent
and essential service with a full catalogue of books, CDs, videos,
on-line renewals, book ordering.
- The
Glaucus 2000 CD-ROM includes the complete Shoreham-by-Sea
and Adur Valley web sites, as well as shareware
and free programs
ADUR VALLEY EFORUM PAGE |
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Events
- Adur
On-line Events page
- http://appspace.nexus-solutions.net/arc/asp/diary/diaryoutput.asp
- Please send in any details of local events.
- Web
Sites
American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth
Edition *****
- SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY
For any company or organisation wanting nationwide green publicity, there is an opportunity to sponsor the journal "Glaucus" of the British Marine Life Study Society.
There remains sponsorship opportunities on the BMLSS (England) web site and other publications, including Torpedo.
Sponsorship is also available for the Adur Torpedo Electronic News Bulletin and the Shoreham-by-Sea web pages (which preceded the Adur Resource Centre web site), which would be more suitable for a local firm(s).
Web Site Design Services are available from Hulkesmouth Publishing
Normal
advertisement rules apply.
Submissions
accepted by EMail only.
| 55 | Adur World Oceans Day Committee Meeting |
| 56 | Ropetackle - Group Consultation with SEEDA |
| 57 | Train Crash at Lancing |
| 58 | Ropetackle Outline Plan Initial Comments |
| 59 | Plane Crash at Sharpthorne |
| 60 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions |
| 61 | Repair of the Old Fort |
| 62 | Plane Crash at Shoreham |
| 63 | HMS Shoreham |
| 64 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Update |
| 65 | Adur Festival 2001 Preview |
| 66 | Ropetackle Outline Plan - Objections |
| 67 | Shoreham May Day Celebrations |
| 68 | Ropetackle Outline Plans - Plan |
| 69 | Plane Crash at Lancing |
| 70 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Lifted - Footpaths Open |
| 71 | Escape of King Charles II Exhibition |
| 72 | Adur World Oceans Day Preview |
| 73 | Adur World Oceans Day |
| 74 | General Election |
| 75 | End of the Adur Festival |
| 76 | Plane
Crash Averted at Lancing
Conservative Independent Alliance |
| 77 | Farmer's Market |
| 78 | Ropetackle Public Meeting |
| 79 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Reminder |
| 80 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Report |
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| 82 | Shoreham
Air Show
350th Anniversary of the Battle of Worcester |
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| 85 | Closure
of the Marlipins
Widewater Information Booth |
| 86 | Round the World by Helicopter |
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Ropetackle
Compulsory Purchase Planning Enquiry
Proof of Evidence of Contamination |
Adur
Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy
Horton.
