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This digest is in the form of notes about each meeting of the Parish Council and about each Annual and Special Parish Meeting since the Council was formed in 1894. The notes give the date of each meeting and a serial number to each for future reference.


2/7/1934 PC 358
Nothing of note.

3/9/1934 PC 359
Hey resigns.
H Maynard co-opted.

1/10/1934 PC 360
Agreed with SCC to place seat at Church Hill Road.
Queries about the state of Johns Road and Old Lane (not county roads).
Three pedestrians injured at Hitchcock’s Corner.
Call for a playing field.

5/11/1934 PC 361
Clerk writing to Secretary of Playing Fields Association.
Call for letter box in Rag Hill/Parkwood Road.

3/12/1934 PC 362
Nothing of note.

7/1/1935 PC 363
Resolved that the District Council: “should consider the purchase of the meadow adjoining the Parish Hall to use the frontage for a housing site and let the Parish have the benefit of the back land for a recreation ground”.

4/2/1935 PC 364
PC suggests Sunday Green Line bus should arrived between 1030 and 1100 instead of at 130 “as at present”. (First reference to the service having started).

11/3/1935 PC 365
DC propose “to erect Council houses on a site opposite Westmore Cottages in Lusted Lane, using the road frontage for the houses and leaving the back land for the use of the Parish - about 3½ acres - for a recreation ground”.
Stones on new Ship Hill footpath. SCC hope to widen school corner “in the spring”.

11/3/1935 PM 67
21 electors present.
DC planning to build 8 houses and 2 tenements for aged couples on the field opposite Westmore Cottages at rents not less than 10/- a week.
Prolonged drought in 1933 but only 12 of 40 houses using rainwater are interested in mains supply. Only Goatsfield Road would have the main extended.
Committee (Mrs Wyatt and 3 WI members, Dr Bannister, Dr Christison, Col Wyatt, Dr Crafer (rector), Messrs Brown, Charman, Faires, Hammond, Maynard, Monteith, Harris and the Clerk - Mr T Kelly) to be formed to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary. Scouts propose a bonfire.

17/4/1935 PC 366
Baker Chairman.
Plan for 30 or 50 street lamps.
Call for milk to be tested.
£10 donated to Jubilee Committee.

3/6/1935 PC 367
PC to meet outside White House on Sunday 16th to discuss where street lights should go.
Suggestion of tree planting for Jubilee.

1/7/1935 PC 368
Dr Christison and Tatsfield Society complaining about the pond. PC suggests filling it in.
DC Town Planning Scheme: PC asked to suggest sites for allotments, playing fields and possible cemetery extension. PC suggests: “that about 13 acres, embracing the present cricket pitch and tennis court, should be provided in that field between the allotments and the Grange, also the back portion of field at Parish Hall. The boundary of whole area to be approximately a line from a point adjoining the stile on Ship Hill to the hedge at far end of Parish Hall field, thence in a SW direction to clump of oaks trees about 261 yards from end of PH field, thence in a westerly direction to Furze Corner about 238 yds distant”.

8/7/1935 PC 369
15 street lamps would cost £47 p.a. PC chooses 14 lamps.

24/7/1935 PM 68
31 electors present.
Agreed to adopt lighting scheme.
Parochial lighting committee established.

29/1935 PC 370
House being built at southern end of Park Wood likely to block right of way.
Stamp machine to be installed outside Post Office.
DC agree to PC suggestions for Town Planning.

7/10/1935 PC 371
Mr RE Miles, Gorsey Down Farm was asked to use Crown Road for his cattle and avoid the Manor House/Johns Road FP.

4/11/1935 PC 372
Building materials obstructing Maesmaur Road.

2/12/1935 PC 373
PC Notice Board to be erected on Westmore Green.

6/1/1936 PC 374
Renewed call for improvement at Hitchcock’s Corner.

3/2/1936 PC 375
Ministry of Transport have made grant for Hitchcock’s Corner.
DC considering proposals for Air Raid Precautions - conference at Oxted Council Offices.

2/3/1936 PC 376
Nothing of note.

25/3/1936 PM 69
Lighting scheme nearly finished.
Ten council houses completed. Plan for a further 11 in the coming year.
Call for main drainage.
Call for poll instead of show of hands for election of councillors.
Paynesfield Road could be a through road if it were not for bushes.
Mr Watson suggested moving the “No Through Road” signs from Westmore Green to Johns Road junction.

27/4/1936 PC 377
Baker Chairman
Letter from Miss Castellan’s solicitors about FP claim.

8/6/1936 PC 378
Call for FP from Lusted Hall Lane to Post Office for council tenants.

24/6/1936 PM 70
Called to discuss main drainage.
Resolved that: “in view of the insanitary conditions existing in the village, this meeting of ratepayers of Tatsfield urgently request the RDC of Godstone to consider immediately the question of supplying main drainage for the parish”.

6/7/1936 PC 379
Further discussion about the northern end of Paynesfield Road and right of way.
Campers causing annoyance on Gorsey Down Farm - SCC to be approached.

7/9/1936 PC 380
SCC indicates that bye-laws may apply to Gorsey Down Farm.
Rabbits damaging allotments.
More concern about motorists not noticing dead end in Paynesfield Road.
PC waives claim to footpath from Tatsfield Court Farm to Betsoms Hill.
Burrows died. J Elbourne co-opted.
Weedy allotments.
DC recommending tarmac on FP from Lusted Lane to Post Office - £24.

5/10/1936 PC 381
PC wrote to MP - Mr Emmott - urging ballots for PC instead of show of hands.
Widening of Hitchcock’s Corner two years overdue.

2/11/1936 PC 382
Nothing of note.

7/12/1936 PC 383
Nothing of note.

1/1937 PC

No meeting - no quorum

1/2/1937 PC 384
Mr Strologo had offered a bus shelter to the village.
PC £30 grant towards Coronation Celebrations.

10/2/1937 PM 71
Called to consider Coronation arrangements.
Six electors attended.
Further PM called for 16/2/1937

16/2/1937 PM 72
Called to consider Coronation arrangements.
19 electors attended.
Committee formed: Mrs Bee, Mrs Faires, Mrs Green, Mrs Ford, Mrs Skinner, Mrs Lugton, Miss King, Miss Scott, Messrs Bee, Bristow, Brown, Compton Skinner, Cotter, Dr Darwall, Smith, Faires, Hammond, Harris, Lugton, Rushen T and Rosier.

1/3/1937 PC 385
Call for kerbs in Westmore Road.
Request for modification of sign post at “wellhouse on Croydon-Westerham Road”.

15/3/1937 PM 73
80 electors present.
Elected:
Baker
Banister
Bee
Charman
Maynard
Montieth
Mrs Wyatt
Main drainage would cost between £8000 and £9000.
Bus shelter - gift of Mr Strologo of Shamley Green - would soon be erected.
Retaining wall had been built around the pond - work not yet complete.
Hope that the bottleneck at the Polesteeple end of Ricketts Hill Road would be widened to 40ft.

26/4/1937 PC 386
AFW Baker Chairman.
Brig Mosley invited to attend to speak on air raid precautions.
Bus shelter erected but Mr Strologo unable to open it on Coronation Day.
James Scott had been Clerk for 25 years and a member for 5 - now retired.

20/5/1937 PC 387
Brig Mosley - with the aid of a diagram - gave a detailed description of Air Raid Precaution organisation.
Large number of gypsy caravans, especially in Chestnut Avenue at weekends.
Remaining cesspool pump now beyond repair.

7/6/1937 PC 388
Clerk had taken over from Mr Scott - in 1932 - a number of band instruments which had been in the possession of the PC since 1913. They were now in an unplayable condition and it decided to sell them as old brass.
Call for improving Ricketts Hill Road.

5/7/1937 PC 389
Band instruments sold for 5/-.
Petition from 13 allotment holders for children to be kept out because of damage.
Request for stile at Green Hill on Ship Hill to Church Hill FP.

6/9/1937 PC 390
CPO problem re Hitchcock’s Corner.
Various footpath problems.
Call for “No cycling” notice on Westmore Green FP.

4/10/1937 PC 391
Nothing of note.

1/11/1937 PC 392
TPOs suggested for:
Group of beech trees opposite the Rectory - property of Sir Samuel Joyce Thomas;
group of pines opposite the Manor House - property of Sir Samuel Joyce Thomas;
group of pines opposite entrance to Cudham Road - property of Miss Sheerman;
group of pines about 50 yds along Cudham Road on both sides of the road - one group owned by Mr Cook of Manorcroft;
group of 3 beeches, Rag Lane, at the entrance to road leading to the Hermitage - property of Titsey Estate Company.
(DC had written in connection with Town Planning Scheme).

6/12/1937 PC 393
Mrs Wyatt resigns, Mr J Elbourne co-opted.

3/1/1938 PC 394
Nothing of note.

7/2/1938 PC 395
PC to write to Mrs Gooding (Lusted Farm) about the state of FP from Tangland Castle to Lusted Lane.
PC to write to SCC about damage to Westmore Green from vehicles.
PC to write to SCC about the “serious condition” of Old Lane.

7/3/1938 PC 396
SCC had asked for highway priorities. PC suggests:
Old Lane, Ship Hill Road, kerb for bus shelter island, kerb the bakery triangle, kerb Westmore Road.

23/3/1938 PM
Only Chairman, Clerk and two reporters turned up - no meeting, no quorum.

25/4/1938 PC 397
AGW Baker Chairman
W Coker Iliffe co-opted vice the late Dr John Bright Banister.
DC to be asked to move “No Through Road” sign from Westmore Green to junct. Crossways & Johns Road.
Further annoyance caused by campers at Gorsey Down Farm, shouting and singing into the early hours of the morning, obscene language makes use of public footpaths impossible. Problem had existed for more than two years.

13/6/1938 PC 398
SCC requested to provide more gully holes in Old Lane to prevent damage to the “newly repaired surface of this highway”.

4/7/1938 PC 399
More on camping at Gorsey Down Farm

5/9/1938 PC 400
PC to attend Parish Council’s Conference in October - Physical Training Act 1937 on the agenda.
Mr T Rushen asking for 3 acres smallholding.
Cesspool overflowing at rear of Post Office.

3/10/1938 PC 401
Nothing of note.

7/11/1938 PC 402
DC to be asked to use the land at the rear of the Council Cottages, Lusted Lane, for a children’s playing field.
1045 coach from Tatsfield being withdrawn. PC says 1310 departure is too late.

5/12/1938 PC 403
SCC planning to ban cycling on footpaths.
DC says land at the back of council houses is available as play area until wanted for housing.
Possibility of Chelsham coach starting at Tatsfield on a Sunday.

9/1/1939 PC 404
Nothing of note.

9/2/1939 PC 405
Seats to be provided in bus shelter.

6/3/1939 PC 406
Storm water across Tatsfield Green damaging Mrs Sherrard’s private road.

22/3/1939 PM 74
First for two years - a ”fairly representative meeting was in attendance” - 15?
Ricketts Hill bottleneck, corner at Cooleen - Ship Hill, kerbing of bus shelter island, improvement to Old Lane surface had been achieved.
Fire brigade expected for Tatsfield.
Proposed that PC should provide a proper parish hall under Physical Training and Recreation Act 1939 because of hiring restrictions at the church hall.

25/4/1939 PC 407
AGW Baker Chairman
Camping on Gorsey Down Farm now described as “an intolerable scandal”.
Notice board to be moved inside the concrete retaining wall around the pond.
Problems with siting of bus stop on Westerham/Croydon Road.

5/6/1939 PC 408
PC favour a form of secret ballot for PC election - poll expensive but show of hands not right.

10/7/1939 PC 409
No progress on Gorsey Down Farm or siting of bus stop.

4/9/1939 PC 410
Future meetings to be held if and when required.

6/11/1939 PC 411
Clerk’s wife died.
Only business was on allotments, footpaths and overhanging bushes.

7/2/1940 PC 412
Call to Mrs Gooding to provide steps on stiles on footpaths from Tanglands Castle to Lusted Lane.
National Savings Committee - Mrs Skinner already doing.

6/3/1940 PC 413
Footpaths and hedges.

6/3/1940 PM 75
Small attendance.
Letting of council houses and waste paper collection.

22/4/1940 PC 414
AGW Baker Chairman
Nothing else of note.

3/6/1940 PC 415
Scrap iron collection being arranged

18/7/1940 PC 416
4 tons of metal had been collected. Mr R Miles had loaned horse and cart.
Mr Watson proposed people should be trained in the use of the stirrup pump.
DC asked for details of springs and wells to provide alternative water supply in the event of damage.
Call for air raid shelter on Westmore Green since “great anxiety prevails owing to the proximity of BBC Station on one side and Biggin Hill Aerodrome on the other”.
Mr Montieth explained why he had not attended for six months.

20/11/1940 PC 417
Clerk had written to O/C. Troops, the Manor House drawing his attention to the seat opposite Manor Road “demolished by a military wagon, requesting that it be repaired and replaced”.
Request for extra telephone line to the “Auto exchange at Westerham” because of the difficulty in communication with places outside the parish.

19/2/1941 PC 418
Post Office considering phone links.

12/3/1941 PM 76
Small number attending.
Air raid shelter had been opened on January 1st.

21/4/1941 PC 419
AGW Baker Chairman.
Post Office preparing a case for better phone connection - depends on “relative defence importance of areas under consideration, also that the existing lines between Biggin and Tatsfield were all in use for various purposes”.
Miss Nicolls, the Schools, reported that beehives had been damaged by gypsies.
Biggin Hill Residents Association want support over footpath closure.

9/6/1941 PC 420
Ministry of Food had appointed Voluntary Food Organisers “to look after food supplies should the communities in which they live be isolated by the enemy. He would be responsible for conserving and fairly distributing the food within his area until communication with the permanent Ministry of Food had been restored”. The organiser for Tatsfield was Mr Granville A Martin, Colegates. The deputy was Mr T Kelly, Maybank, Old Lane (Clerk).

28/7/1941 PC 421
Orpington UDC had dropped plan to close footpath in Biggin HiIl.

22/9/1941 PC 422
Mr Montieth resigned. FJ Hardy, Rose Cottage, Parkwood Road co-opted.
Robinson had ploughed footpath from Chestnut Avenue to Church Lane under war regulations.

27/10/1941 PC 423
Nothing of note.

16/2/1942 PC 424
Two paths had been ploughed up since the start of the war.

25/3/1942 PM 77
Small number of parishioners present.
Anti-blast material not being used properly.
Petition signed by more than 50 people to get bus service into the village instead of passing the Approach Road.

27/4/1942 PC 425
AGW Baker Chairman.
Damage to trees by children.

1/6/1942 PC 426
150 people had signed bus petition. Early bus at 7.45 not enough. The 12 people using it would increase when the basic petrol ration ended in June.

6/7/1942 PC 427
PC had alternative suggestion for buses into the village.
Two recent fires in the village might have been dealt with more effectively if men had been available to man the pump.
Mr Charman resigns because of Home Guard duties etc.

29/7/1942 PC 428
Dr GE Cope, Maesmaur Cottage, elected vice Mr Charman.
Clerk told to dispose of documents over six years old and send for salvage.
Mrs Gooding, Lusted Farm to be asked why footpath used for 90 years had been stopped up.
7/9/1942 PC 429
Mr Miles had stopped up path from Kemsley Road to Ricketts Hill, but not apparently a right of way.

12/10/1942 PC 430
Coker Iliffe had died.
Difficulties at West Croydon with queue for 403 bus. Request that long distance passengers should get priority.

2/11/1942 PC 431
Mrs M M Laslett co-opted.
Nothing else of note.

4/1/1943 PC 432
More on bus queues in Croydon.
Leaking gutters at the Parade.
Boys had damaged bus shelter.

3/3/1943 PC 433
More on bus queues at Croydon.

3/3/1943 PM 78
Fair number present.
Questions on grass seeding, playing fields, Old Lane flooding.

28/4/1943 PC 434
AGW Baker Chairman.
Bus queue issue apparently abandoned.
Tatsfield Gardening Society had been dissolved at the start of the war. Red Cross Agricultural Fund idea of Victory Garden Week etc. unlikely to be successful.

7/6/1943 PC 435
Regional Transport Commissioner had agreed to segregate bus queues in Croydon.
Animals belonging to Mr Miles of Gorsey Down Farm and Mr Dagois of Leehirst, Maesmaur Road said to be straying on greens.
Uncovered well in KE VII Memorial Ground.

5/7/1943 PC 436
Nothing of note.

6/9/1943 PC 437
No fire hydrant close to Church.
Ministry of Health circular says tendering for council jobs is wasteful of transport etc.
Biggin Hill signpost mis-spelling.

4/10/1943 PC 438
Other parts of the parish said to have no hydrants conveniently available.
Post-war status of parish councils being discussed.
Mr Miles leaving Gorsey Down Farm.

1/11/1943 PC 439
Nothing of note.

24/1/1944 PC 440
Book Recovery Drive being organised by DC.
Kemsley to Ricketts Hill Road path was a ”trespass path”.

15/3/1944 PC 441
1400 books and 1400 magazines collected by children and 150 books by WI.
Mr Gooding takes over Gorsey Down Farm.
Leveson-Gower Golden Wedding.

15/3/1944 PM 79
Six parishioners attended.
Nothing of note.

24/4/1944 PC 442
AGW Baker Chairman.
Tatsfield sub-committee for Salute the Soldier Week to be formed.

10/7/1944 PC 443
Mr Bee reconsidered his resignation and would stay until the end of the war.
Salute the Soldier Committee members:
Chairman, Mr B Hammond - headmaster; Secretary Mr E Weatherley, Avening, Paynesfield Road; Mrs MM Laslett, Grenaun, Parkwood Road (PC); Mrs FO Watson, The Knole, Paynesfield Road (Savings Group); Mrs AE Bee, Goddards, Manor Road (WI); Mrs M Groves, Liscombe, Ricketts Hill Road (WVS); Mr FJ Hardy, Rose Cottage, Parkwood Road (PC); Mr T Rushen, Westmore Green (Working Men’s Club); Mr VF Cotter, Downe House, Ricketts Hill Road (co-opted); Rev WE Goundry, Rector (co-opted); Mr F Billcon, Tatsfield Savings Group; Mr AGW Baker, Chairman PC.
£98/13/5d raised.
Encroachment onto Paynesfield Road opposite Toronto House.

4/9/1944 PC 444
Nothing of note.

6/11/1944 PC 445
Nothing of note.

5/3/1945 PC 446
More problems with footpaths in connection with Gorsey Down Farm.

19/3/1945 PM 80
4 electors present.
Mr Geary asked whether it was proposed to set up a community centre in the village.

30/4/1945 PC 447
AGW Baker Chairman.
Dustmen missing out Old Lane and Parkwood Road.
Estimate of £194 for putting Old Lane right. Argued that frontagers should not be liable since it was storm water from the highway which caused the trouble.

23/7/1945 PC 448
Hardy resigned wef 5/7/45
Charles J Geary co-opted.
Rose Cottage, Parkwood Avenue had been damaged by fire and Mr Watson asked PC to endorse application to Regional Commissioners for permission to repair.

24/9/1945 PC 449
Cows belonging to Mr Dagois said to be straying in Barnfield Road - Mrs Page, Holly Cottage.

5/11/1945 PC 450
More than £6000 raised in Thanksgiving Savings Week.
Request to Mr Hallam to remove barbed wire at Rylands Lane, Tatsfield Court Farm.
Clerk - Mr Kelly - retires because of failing health. He had served as District Councillor and PC Clerk for 19½ years.
3/12/1945 PC 451
PC now in favour of a poll for future elections.
No applications for clerk - Miss Kelly asked to act for the time being.

7/1/1946 PC 452
Miss MW Kelly appointed Clerk.

4/2/1946 PC 453
Inquiry about the possibility of a shop being built on the “proposed new housing estate”.
Complaint about untidiness of Home Guard Defence Barriers opposite the Telephone Exchange and at the bus shelter on Westmore Green.

4/3/1946 PC 454
PC term of office ends on April 15th.
“reasonable expenses” may be incurred for Victory celebrations.
Wartime ploughing up of footpaths now no longer allowed.
Tatsfield Church - Croydon Road - Mr Robinson.
Church Hill Road - Ship Hill - Mr Streets.
Clarks Farm - school - Mr Streets
Manor House - Johns Road - Mr Gooding
Church Road - Parkwood - Mr Robinson
.. need to be reinstated.

4/3/1946 PM 81
6 members of the public.
“Credit was given to the Parish Council for bringing up the poor condition of Old Lane, and to the Rev W.E. Goundry for his part in pressing the Rural District Council to make improvements there”.

15/4/1946 PC 455
Elected:
Mrs Kerrison
Mrs Laslett
Charman
Geary
Little
Martin
McDonald - ill
McDonald Chairman
1d rate for Victory Celebrations.
Farmers mention at previous meeting had no authorisation to plough up footpaths.
Messrs. Strutt & Parker now agents for Titsey Estate.
Mrs Lawrence - Argovie - complained about the path from Westmore Green into Greenway, used by DC “in the erection of the new pre-fabricated houses”.

13/5/1946 PC 456
Special meeting to consider a petition for main drainage.
Resolved: “That the petition received from the residents of Tatsfield regarding the insanitary state of the village should be forwarded to the Godstone Rural District Council with a request that it receive immediate attention. The Parish Council considers that the petition is fully justified, as the overflowing cess pool drainage running down the main street constitutes a grave public menace, which calls for rectification at the earliest possible date. The Parish Council is also of the opinion that nothing short of main drainage will suffice as a permanent solution”.

3/6/1946 PC 457
DC trying to get a separate access for new houses from a point almost opposite Tangland Castle.
77 residents had written disagreeing with a statement at the special meeting on drainage by Rev Goundry (Dist Cllr) that the effluent in Westmore Road was without smell and harmless.
Tatsfield rateable values were 33 1/3 lower because of the lack of amenities - see 29/7/1946 meeting.
Goundry announces resignation as Tatsfield’s representative on the District Council.

1/7/1946 PC 458
Mr Gooding alleged to have encroached near Toronto House.
DC reminds PC that Tatsfield had turned down a drainage scheme in 1930 which would have attracted 63% repayment relief under government jobs scheme.
Suggestion that road from the school to Church Hill Corner should be improved to allow Green Line coaches to come into the village.

29/7/1946 PC 459
Called to consider main drainage.
Resolved that: “The Tatsfield Parish Council invites the attention of the Surrey County Council to the insanitary state of Tatsfield village and the failure of the Godstone Rural District Council to deal therewith”. Resolution disputes DC interpretation of 1930 decision; talks of 20 years of overflowing cesspool in Westmore Road; 57 days of overflow in past two months; and asks SCC to take over DC’s powers on drainage.
Further resolution - after argument about PC going into committee - describing a major rift with Rev Goundry.
Minutes of this meeting run to six pages.

23/9/1946 PC 460
More on drainage.
Call to bridge the ditch in Old Lane.
School managers calling for support in obtaining water closets.
Westmore Green bus shelter in a “bad state”.

4/11/1946 PC 461
Chairman McDonald ill.
Mr Gooding says he didn’t realise he was encroaching.
Surrey and Godstone had discussed main drainage.
DC considering what to do in Old Lane.
Lady Benn would visit the school re water closets.

6/1/1947 PC 462
PC asked to list potential trees for preservation orders.
Call for bus service to Oxted.
More on drainage - situation had improved but Mr Gillatt’s shop and residence still affected. 2 pages of minutes.

10/2/1947 PC 463
Same trees as in November 1939 suggested for preservation, but adding conifers just beyond the school, and beech trees in Crown Road.
DC says West Kent Drainage Board happy to accept Tatsfield’s sewage.
Clerk resigns; Mr Dothie appointed.

26/3/1947 PM 82
23 electors, including 6 PCs.
Call for Chelsham to Oxted bus to be routed via Tatsfield. 57 signature petition.
Call for “no through road notice” at entrance to Old Lane.
Further call for bridge across Old Lane ditch at Sunnybank.
Sunnybank residents asked not to throw tins into the ditch.

21/4/1947 PC 464
McDonald Chairman.
Cesspool still overflowing.
DC had suggested that the bus shelter be moved to Church Hill Corner.
Allotments lease had been granted in 1907 for 20 years at £4 p.a. Deficit over the past 10 years. Call for allotments to pay their way.
Burglary at school: sugar and golden syrup stolen. Fund raising at the school had led to a visit to “Britain can Make It” exhibition and to the purchase of a wireless.

2/6/1947 PC 465
Notice board opposite Manor House to be repaired.
Cess pool.
Talk of joining newly formed National Association of Parish Councils.
Tar melting on the roads. Rev Goundry says there’s a shortage of grit - had not carried out threat to resign?

28/7/1947 PC 466
McDonald resigns as Chairman and Councillor.
Little Chairman.
Martin leaving.
Call for Lingfield-Oxted bus service to be extended to Tatsfield.
Cesspool still causing problems.
Brazier and Rushen co-opted.

29/9/1947 PC 467
Chelsham bus diversion cannot be arranged.
East Grinstead-Oxted bus service delayed.
PC to point out that cessation of basic petrol ration makes better bus service more urgent.
No prospect of a bus shelter at Tatsfield Corner - further talk of moving shelter from Westmore Green.
SCC ask for rent to use school for meetings, but PC points out that the law entitles councils to free use (plus expenses).
Football Club ask for help is obtaining a field since field behind Parish Hall difficult to obtain despite being so scheduled. (Owned by Titsey, let to Robinson, leased to FC). Red Triangle Club used to rent it.
Call to clean pond.
Fencing in Hillside Road had not be reinstated by Mr Gooding who was about to leave the district.
Mr Weatherley co-opted.

3/11/1947 PC 468
Mr McDonald has died.
No hope of bus service improvements.
Mr Morrison had suggested at National Conference that parish councils could enhance rural life; that DCs could delegate some powers etc.
Squatters: a Mr Hitchcock said to be occupying a tumble-down shack at Snow Corner - and embarrassment to people living nearby. Also a caravan near Mr Lawrence’s house, previously known as Argovie.

5/1/1948 PC 469
East Grinstead-Oxted bus service had started.
Caravan squatters had gone; notice to quit had been served on squatter at Snows Corner.
Surrey branch of National Association of Parish Councils being formed.
Call for PC school managers to make regular reports.
Westmore Cottages cesspools not being emptied often enough.
Suggested that 403 bus should be diverted into the village hourly and that the Green Line be diverted alternately to terminate at the schools instead of Westerham.
Query about planting of Christmas trees on road to Tatsfield Corner.

23/2/1948 PC 470
Discussion of relative charges for water delivery by Metropolitan Water Board and National Fire Service.
Water sanitation approved for school.
Further call for recognised playing field in the village.

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