Parish Cake - Spring 2018

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The
Parish Cake guide to events
in Cranbrook and Sissinghurst
REGULAR EVENTS
• The Cranbrook Union Windmill is
open on Saturday 2.30-5pm from 24
March. Also open on Wednesdays and
Sundays in the summer and every bank
holiday
• St. Dunstan’s Church Tower is open on
Saturdays 11am-1pm from 31 March
for fabulous views over the town
• Cranbrook Museum opens on 3 April,
then Tuesdays and Saturdays until 27
October (and Sunday afternoons in
July)
• Farmers’ Market every fourth Saturday
9am-12pm, Vestry Hall, Cranbrook
• Messy Church Children’s and Parent
Group, every second Friday each
month – 3.30-5pm
• Tempo – join up beat singing on
Saturday mornings at the Music Centre,
Cranbrook School, 9.30-11am
• The Children’s Centre, Cranbrook,
offers free sessions for parents and
children throughout the week. Call
03000 411035 for a timetable
MARCH
THURSDAY 8
Full Parish Council Meeting,
Council Chamber, 7.30pm –
everyone welcome
SATURDAY 10
Canterbury Cathedral Choir
concert, Trinity Church,
Sissinghurst, 7pm. Tickets are
£12.50 from the village stores
SUNDAY 11
Mothering Sunday Service,
St Dunstan’s Church, with
distribution of flowers to
those who ‘mother us’
SATURDAY 17
Box2Beat Ovarian Cancer
fund raising, Weald Sports
Centre, 07734 6520589
SATURDAY 24
Sissinghurst Flower Show,
Sissinghurst COE Primary
School Hall, 2.30pm
SUNDAY 25
Chamber Choir (music
over the last 25 years), St.
Dunstan’s, Cranbrook, 6pm
WEDNESDAY 28
Kent High Weald Project,
Crane Valley, 10am
SATURDAY 31
Easter Eve Darkness to Light
Service, St. Dunstan’s, 8.30pm
APRIL
SATURDAY 7
Cranbrook In Bloom plant
sale, High Street, Cranbrook,
9am–12 noon
THURSDAY 12
Full Parish Council Meeting,
Council Chamber, 7.30pm –
everyone welcome
SATURDAY 14
CODS present ‘The Real
Inspector Hound’ by Tom
Stoppard, Queens Hall
Theatre, Cranbrook, 8pm
SUNDAY 15
St. Dunstan’s Church Annual
Meeting, 6.30pm
WEDNESDAY 18
The Annual Parish Meeting,
Parish Room, Sissinghurst,
7.30pm - everyone welcome
SUNDAY 22
Book Swap, George Hotel,
Cranbrook, 5-7pm
WEDNESDAY 25
Talk from Old Cranbrookian
Tony Blaker, Assistant Chief
Constable Central Operations
at Kent Police, Cranbrook
School, 7.30pm
SATURDAY 28
Choral Society Spring
Concert, Handel’s Alexander
Feast (English Version), St.
Dunstan’s, Cranbrook
MAY
SATURDAY 12
Cranbrook Town Band, St.
Dunstan’s, Cranbrook, 7pm
SATURDAY 12
Mugenkyo Talko Drummers,
Queen’s Theatre, 7.30pm,
01580 711856
THURSDAY 16
Full Parish Council Meeting,
Council Chamber, 7.30pm –
everyone welcome
SATURDAY 26
Folk-rock band Fairport
Convention, St. Dunstan’s,
Cranbrook
SUNDAY 27
Nuts In May Cranbrook Street
Festival, 10am-5pm
JUNE
SUNDAY 17
Cranbrook Garden Safari
Programme, 10.30am-5pm,
entry £5
FRIDAY 22 - MONDAY 25
Flower Festival St. Dunstan’s
Church with art and music
While every effort is made
to ensure accuracy, dates
and times may change.
If you are organising an
event in the parish why
not drop us a line and we
might be able to include
you in the listings too –
editorial@parishcake.co.uk
Neighbourhood Development Plan Update
THANK YOU to everyone who
attended the public exhibitions in
November and December, especially
those who filled in postcard responses
to the draft policy headings that
were displayed, or gave their opinion
on where housing and business
development should happen (or not)
in the parish.
More than 250 people attended
the events at St. George’s Institute,
Sissinghurst, and the Vestry Hall,
Cranbrook. The exhibition then
moved to the Cranbrook Library. We
had more than 80 responses to the
displayed material which outlined
the policy areas we are developing. It
seems the community feels strongly
about affordable housing, adequate
infrastructure to support
new development, the
need to protect heritage
assets, such as the
Providence Chapel,
the importance of
keeping green spaces
green and developing
joined-up cycle paths
and footpaths.
There were some very strong
feelings about where new housing
should and should not go. The parish
council has received support in
undertaking the site assessments
by an independent assessor funded
by central government. The task
involves looking closely at the areas
of land that had been submitted in the
ABOVE: Cllr. Nancy
Warne, chairman,
NDP Steering
Group
borough’s ‘call for sites’ and deciding
which could be suitable in principal
for development of either housing or
business premises. The task is nearly
complete and the results will be ready
in the spring.
If you have missed any of the events
or are interested in viewing the
evidence gathered so far, please
do visit the website at www.
cranbrookandsissinghurstndp.co.uk
and click on the evidence tab.
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