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.

5/12/1955 PC 553
Held at the Bakery
Ł10/17/7d agreed for a Coronation seat to be placed on Ship Hill.
Tatsfield Residents’ association suggest a site between the allotments and the Church Hall for a playing field.
Pond sub-committee formed: Working Men’s Club (2), WI, Horticultural Society, Residents Association and 2 members of PC to discuss future plans for beautification and improvement with the DC.
Call for cats eyes on Limpsfield Road.

2/1/1956 PC 554
Coronation seat to go half way between Ninehams Road and Maesmaur Road on Ship Hill at new cost of Ł11/15/10d.
DC willing to contribute towards making up of Goatsfield Road - not a highway.
Air raid shelter site to be sown.
DC having trouble mowing Tatsfield Green because of bushes.
10 minute adjournment for public to be continued for next three meetings.

6/2/1956 PC 555
Bus service to Oxted to be inaugurated - once a day.

5/3/1956 PC 556
DC had agreed to pay up to Ł100 towards pond restoration.
Coronation sign needed varnishing - DC had not taken it over.
Overhanging branches at Beaconshaw blocking pathway.
Main drainage would cost Ł22,300.

14/3/1956 PM 95
30 people attended.
Volunteers wanted to help clear Tatsfield Green.
PC had resisted boundary changes.

9/4/1956 PC 557
DC agree to maintain village sign.
Public 10 minutes to be continued.
8 new houses to be built - 4 under the slum clearance scheme.
Concern about density of new building.

7/5/1956 PC 558
Mr Abraham thanked for seeing to Village sign recently.
Call for grass out side the bakery and on bus shelter island to be kept short.
Poor bus connections.
Clerk was asked what to do about rabbits under the Pest Control Act.

28/5/1956 PC 559
Ridler Chairman
Geary to resign within 6 months.
Coronation seat had been delivered.
Rabbit problem continues.
Veranda outside the Parade said to be dangerous.
Miss Boon - lengthsman - sick.
Bushes still overhanging path at Beaconshaw.

2/7/1956 PC 560
Much discussion on need for road signs and placing.

3/9/1956 PC 561
London Transport not able to help on bus connections.
Call for public road map.
Silting of drains in Westmore Road, Crossways and Old Lane.
Mr Geary’s last meeting.

1/10/1956 PC 562
Coronation seat had been erected.
TC Black co-opted.

12/11/1956 PC 563
Middle tree at bus shelter island to be felled.
Post Office gutters and gutters from stables at rear flowed onto pavements.

29/11/1956 PM 96
at WI Hall, to discuss three schemes for beautifying the pond.
11 people present.
Agreed on an informal shape achieved by partial infilling.

3/12/1956 PC 564
Call for better transport facilities while petrol was rationed (Suez crisis).

7/1/1957 PC 565
Bus connection problem solved by changes in school hours.
Church Hill dangerous corner with Clark’s Lane.
Call for footpath across the fields to the school because of the dangers of Ship Hill.
T Butcher co-opted vice Mr Betts.

4/2/1957 PC 566
No action yet on playing field.
Green Line passengers being left behind by over-crowding.
Call for asphalt path on Ship Hill for children.
Bus shelter island being eroded.

4/3/1957 PC 567
Ł220 scheme for pond announced.
Mr Black had resigned. Mr Geary asked to come back.

20/3/1957 PM 97
25 people present.
Main drainage, playing filed, pond go-ahead, , buses, library, cars at school, next elections not till 1959.
Headmaster had been sick for five weeks.

18/4/1957 PC 568
Geary co-opted vice Black.
London Transport reply on bus/coach service still unsatisfactory.
DC had no power to levy rate for the pond, so new committee to be formed from Parish Council and representatives of the Horticultural Society, Working Men’s Club, Conservative and Labour parties, Residents’ association, Football Club, Tennis Club and Church Council.
Mr Groves - Head Teacher - back at school; call to correct statements about his absence through illness.
Whole of the outbuilding roof at the Post Office had been removed - dangerous.
Owner of land at Church Hall unwilling to sell for playing field.

6/5/1957 PC 569
Green Line 706 service improved by running double decker on evening rush hour journey to Chelsham and single decker from there on.
Residents’ Association had deplored lack of consultation by DC over site of new playing field.
Suggestion that Polesteeple Hill and Stock Hill be made one-way.
Mr Weatherly - former Chairman, had died the previous week.

3/6/1957 PC 570
At WI
Dr Sturton Chairman
Experimental CAB to be opened in Oxted.
Disruption being caused by main drainage works.

1/7/1957 PC 571
At the Bakery
Work on pond likely in conjunction with drainage.
Ridler resigning. Mr Leslie of the Red House asked to join.

2/9/1957 PC 572
Leslie co-opted.
Bus shelter had been re-roofed.
Election set for May 1959.
Butcher to resign.

7/10/1957 PC 573
Village sign needs attention.
Stock Hill and Polesteeple Hill to remain two-way.
Agreed to provide Clerk with a telephone.

4/11/1957 PC 574
Clerk’s phone had been installed - No 422.
“Excellent” path now installed between Maesmaur Road and the School along Ship Hill.
Mr G Smith (St Chad, Paynesfield Road) co-opted vice Butcher.

2/12/1957 PC 575
Village sign had been varnished.
“The Square” not thought to be an appropriate name.

6/1/1958 PC 576
Crossways, Ham Hill and Old Lane reinstatement unsatisfactory after drainage works.
County to extend school footpath as land becomes available.

3/2/1958 PC 577
Discussion on making up damaged roads. On Old Lane, stated that owner of common land cannot be called upon to meet private street works charges.
DC still negotiating on playing field land.
Mrs Dothie raised question of squatters’ rights blocking footpath that had existed for 20 years between Greenways and Goatsfield Road.

3/3/1958 PC 578
DC said alleged Greenways to Goatsfield Road footpath was a plot owned by the executors of the late Wilfred Albert Homer, who had permission for one house on the site.
Call for “Road Blocked” signs for snowdrifts.

26/3/1958 PM 98
18 people attending.
Tennis Club still anxious to have playing field facilities.
Extra Green Line coach services coming.
Contractors had altered the camber of Old Lane and water no longer drained into the ditch.
Call to widen part of Church Lane.

31/3/1958 PC 579
More on Greenway to Goatsfield path.
County explain snow problems of recent months.
Kent County Council widening B2024 - can Surrey do something at waterworks>
Mr Leslie complained about the bad siting of council houses in the Square.
Car parking on Westmore Green.

5/5/1958 PC 580
DC now says claim can be made for footpath between Greenway and Goatsfield Road.
Parking and boundary bricks at the Old Ship.
PC wants two seats near the pond.
DC surveyor satisfied with the condition of Old Lane.

2/6/1958 PC 581
Sturton Chairman
Ten forms received on Greenway to Goatsfield Road footpath.
SCC provide reasons for not erecting Road Closed signs in snow.
B2024 improvement under consideration.
Old Ship brewers thought unlikely to try to enclose land markers covered by tarmac.

7/7/1958 PC 582
DC asked to levy a penny rate for the pond.
Huts in Goatsfield Road being used for sleeping accommodation during the summer.
Question raised about availability of 11+ education in the area.

1/9/1958 PC 583
Ł80 in pond fund.
Land at the rear of the bakery being used to dump cars.

6/10/1958 PC 584
Huts in Goatsfield Road had been refused planning permission for weekend occupation in 1956. Appeal allowed use for storage and accommodation but not to sleep.
Discussion of details of DC plans for the pond - rockery.
Ten houses planned for DC site in Paynesfield Road in 1959.

3/11/1958 PC 585
Further details of pond refurbishment.
Unsatisfactory school bus service.
Plot adj. to 32 Westmore Road suggested as tennis court.
Mr Brazier - school manager - died.

1/12/1958 PC 586
Village sign taken down for restoration and perspex cover.
Purley Education Committee considering hiring a bus for school children attending Whyteleafe.
Mr G Smith to replace Mr Brazier as school manager.

5/1/1959 PC 587
Extra school bus provided by London Transport.
Postmaster - Mr Harris - to retire.

2/2/1959 PC 588
Reflectors erected at Furze Corner.
Cinder path on Westmore Green churned up by vehicles.

2/3/1959 PC 589
MR Wilkinson asked on behalf of Mr Pelletier to take over the many vacant allotments.
Negotiations on lease of playing field at Furze Corner in final stages.
Too many caravans at Lower Concord in Paynesfield Road.

18/3/1959 PM 99
18 people present.
Votes in favour of adding paths from Westmore Green to Greenways and Greenways to Goatsfield Road next to Anhedral to definitive footpath map.
“Strong feelings” about the state of Old Lane after the main drainage work.

18/3/1959 PC 590
Special meeting to give effect to footpath resolution at earlier PM.

6/4/1959 PC 591
Wrong forms had been used on footpath claims.
Mr Pelletier offered one year tenancy of 26 allotments.

4/5/1959 PC 592
Caravans in Paynesfield Road were legal.
“The Clerk said she had obtained further information regarding the playing fields. The area was 360ft N-S and 300 ft E-W and there would be enough spare to provide a cricket pitch 115 by 75 yards, although this was somewhat larger than RDC pitches provided on other grounds. On the eastern boundary there would be room for a tennis court, but owing to the short lease permanent facilities would have to be very carefully considered”.
Mr Geary not to stand in May election.

1/6/1959 PC 593
Elected
Dr Sturton - Chairman
Mrs Dothie
Miss Knight
Hodgson
Leslie
Simpson
Smith
PC plans to buy allotment land. Loss of development value an issue.
Playing field lease had been signed.
Dangerous condition of empty house near the allotments.
Clerk (Miss Kelly) to resign.

6/7/1959 PC 594
Mr Watson had agreed to remove cars from behind the bakery.
DC had considered enforcement order on caravans at Concord in Paynesfield Road but owner claimed he had bought the land as a caravan site in 1945 and that it had been assessed as a camping site from 1928.
Greenway to Goatsfield Road footpath claim failed because Goatsfield Road was not a public right of way and there was no evidence of public use submitted on path fro Westmore Green to Crossways.
Mr W Hassall appointed clerk.

7/9/1959 PC 595
Empty house near the allotments had been demolished.
Protest at proposal to share a district councillor with Titsey.
Mr Compton Skinner had died

5/10/1959 PC 596
Enforcement action to be taken against excess caravans in Paynesfield Road.
Call for National Savings volunteers.
Two members invited to meeting on civil defence.
Memorial to World War II dead to be erected in the church.
Three accidents, one fatal in Lusted Hall Lane - near farm entrance.
Concern about density of housing on site GO/R/3979.
Call to extend Ship Hill footpath to school.
Car parking outside the Ship obstructing traffic.

2/11/1959 PC 597
Not so Young club asked to help in survey of old peoples’ welfare.
No solution to Old Lane problem.
Greenway obstructed by cars etc. parked outside Mr Cooper’s house.

7/12/1959 PC 598
Civil defence discussion.
“A memorandum from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government was received giving information re a claim by Titsey Estates for compensation in respect of a planning decision of 22/7/1959 affecting the land held for allotments by the parish council. The clerk was instructed to write to the RDC asking for information as to how this would affect them financially if they purchased the land for tennis courts”.

4/1/1960 PC 599
County Council disclaims responsibility for Old Lane.
MP to be petitioned.
Shrubs for pond not arrived.

1/2/1960 PC 600
Mrs Hornby for WI bookings.
Query about development plan for Tatsfield.
Road subsidence at Mr Geary’s house after drainage work.

7/3/1960 PC 601
Mrs Hall objected to two bungalows being built opposite her shop in Westmore Road.
Complaint about DC inaction over car breaking and burning on its land at junction of Crossways and Greenway.

15/3/1960 PM 100
13 people attended
PC meetings to be held on 3rd Monday of the month.
105 children in the school - sports pavilion erected
Discontent over Old Lane
Talk and film on civil defence - what to do if the H Bomb is dropped

4/4/1960 PC 602
Continued problem of Mr Cooper and cars in Greenway.
Seat had gone from White Lane corner.
Possibility of Church Hall being for sale.
(Simpson had resigned)

23/5/1960 PC 603
Dr Sturton Chairman
Frances Cromwell Cooke of Greenway Cottage co-opted vice Simpson
PC to tell Tennis Club financial conditions relating to purchase of part of allotment land.
“The Clerk was instructed to write to Messrs Page & Overton asking their co-operation in the work of making the village centre more attractive by giving attention to the car park fence and the outbuildings of the Ship Hotel”.

20/6/1960 PC 604
Tennis court proposal thought unlikely to succeed.

16/7/1960 PC 605
Weekend use of a shed in Goatsfield Road causing concern
Talk of Sunningvale Avenue being made up.

26/9/1960 PC 606
Discussion about abandoning lease of allotments
Satisfaction about recent road signing and call for Crossways leading to Goatsfield to be erected.
Residents’ Association had list of Civil Defence volunteers
Police asked to help stop misuse of footpaths
Call for Telephone Kiosk at school cross roads

24/10/1960 PC 607
Pressure from Residents’ association on various matters leads to strong letter to DC
Complaint about DC offices closing on Saturdays
Miss Kelly had written asking about the status of Old Lane
Trouble with builders in Greenway

21/11/1960 PC 608
Ship owners decline to repair their fence

19/12/1960 PC 609
Road verges under threat from builders’ vehicles
Mr Wilkinson giving up allotments and PC asking Titsey to give up the whole two acres.
Caravans had appear near Mosscroft in Kemsley Road against the wishes of the owner.

23/1/1961 PC 610 (POPULATION 1961 - 1462)
Continued dismay at lack of response by DC to points raised by PC.

27/2/1961 PC 611
Leslie resigns to go abroad
Church Hall difficulties

29/3/1961 PC 612
Allotment lease to terminate 30/9/61
Motion to lease Church Hall defeated
meeting resumed after APM

29/3/1961 PM 101
24 residents present
Drastic changes in administration to be considered for the Church Hall
Joint committee to consider its future
Compulsory Purchase Order being enforced for playing field
Old Lane still unsatisfactory

24/4/1961 PC 613
5 Crossways residents complaining about Cooper and Addison activities as dealers and contractors
Residents’ Association complaining about various matters being dealt with by PC
74 signature petition for swings for children

5/6/1961 PC 614
Sturton Chairman
PC considering buying Church Hall and extending for Youth Club (Secretary Mr Dean)
Cesspools of two new dwellings in Greenway said to be too near the road
Call to use names Upper Paynesfield Road and Ricketts Hill Road
Mr JH Pennock co-opted
Clerk resigns

26/6/1961 PC 615
Chairman to interview Mr Goodchild about becoming Clerk
School seriously overcrowded

24/7/1961 PC 616
Mrs Margaret Croft recommended as Clerk
Car breaking apparently being carried out next to Middlesouth

25/9/1961 PC 617
6-7 lorries parked overnight in Greenway
Horticultural Society had cleaned out the pond
Hut and furniture delivered to Polkerris, Goatsfield Road

16/10/1961 PC 618
Rainwater pipe outside Post Office needed attention
Enforcement notices being served on Polkerris, Goatsfield Road
Atomic warfare film to be shown in Church Hall
(Footpaths and Planning Committees producing reports for PC meetings)

20/11/1961 PC 619
Lorry parking in Greenway

18/12/1961 PC 620
Football pitch preparation at the playing field costing Ł360
Church Hall library to be replaced by mobile library in June 1962
“Upper” Paynesfield Road sign confusing.

15/1/1962 PC 621
Land in Goatsfield Road between the Castle and Greenways was to be developed

19/2/1962 PC 622
Civil defence classes have started in the village
PC would deprecate the destruction of the Castle
Bakery no longer available to the PC after the March meeting
Discussion on making up, Paynesfield Road, Maesmaur Road, Greenways, Crossways and Old Lane to a modest standard.

19/3/1962 PC 623
Mr N Hodgson - parish and district councillor - had died
Village sign to be restored - artist advised to contact Mr Abraham
Residents Association calls for bus shelter on the Approach Road

26/3/1962 PM 102
Future PC meetings to be held in the school
New classroom to be erected at the school
Mr Pratt is new headmaster
Litter bins coming
Discussions continuing with church authorities about purchase of Church Hall
DC asked to move Old Lane and Ricketts Hill Road signs to their correct positions
Mobile library coming

16/4/1962 PC 624
Held at the school
Post Office drain pipe to discharge into access road

21/5/1962 PC 625
elected
Sturton Chairman
Miss Knight
Mrs Dothie
Pennock
Smith
Cooke
Hallam
Enforcement Order had been served on Mr McJannet re Polkerris
Village Constable to be provided with a motor vehicle when one becomes available

5/6/1962 C 2
To discuss Church Hall purchase at Ł2500

18/6/1962 PC 626
PC Notice board to be provided at Del-a-Cor, Lusted Hall Lane
PC asks DC why a bungalow has been built next to Drapery in Westmore Road when permission was for a house.

9/7/1962 PC 627
London Transport to reduce 706 fare to 1/=
Mr Wilkinson’s cars on the Green

9/7/1962 PM 103
50 people attended
To discuss purchase of the Church Hall
Accusation that people were being asked to pay twice by buying the hall

10/9/1962 PC 628
Village sign repaired
Brewers had repaired the fence at the Old Ship
DC says Westmore Road is nondescript in connection with house/bungalow next to the Drapery
Application for caravan site at Parsons Shaw
DC asked for PC views on re-siting the school (close to allotments?)

8/10/1962 PC 629
PC doesn’t like the terms for the take-over of the Church Hall

24/10/1962 PM 104
81 people attended
To discuss Church Hall
Sub-committee to be formed

19/11/1962 PC 630
Little of note

17/12/1962 PC 631
Two month’s grace to remove chalet at Polkerris
Illegal building next to Hermitage in Avenue Road
Rent being paid to SCC for seat on Ship Hill

21/1/1963 PC 632
PC to rent Church Hall
Snow

18/2/1963 PC 633
Bus shelter to be erected on Clarks Lane
DC ask about county boundary change
Highways to be thanked for snow work

18/3/1963 PC 634
Polkerris chalet has been removed

18/3/1963 PM 105
31 people attended
Playing field now being used and hut from Lingfield is the dressing room
Only once had a member of the public attended a PC meeting in the past year
Further temporary classroom to be built at the school
PC to lease Church Hall for five years with option to continue - management committee had been formed - details in minutes

22/4/1963 PC 635
New litter bins fixed
DC tells Parsons Shaw owner to dismantle caravan site
Firearms problem in Paynesfield, Kemsley and Goatsfield Roads

20/5/1963 PC 636
Smith resigning

10/6/1963 PC 637
Sturton Chairman
Mr K Shaw to be co-opted

15/7/1963 PC 638
Shaw co-opted
PC propose roundabout at top of Titsey Hill

16/9/1963 PC 639
Snags on Church Hall lease
Enforcement notice on Mr Steer re caravan site at Parson’s Shaw
Village policeman is Mr Fortescue
Suggestion that John’s Road, Ninehams Road, Kemsley Road and Georges Road should have piped water supply

14/10/1963 PC 640
Enforcement order being served on land next to the Hermitage
Crossways flooding between Westmore and Paynesfield Roads

14/10/1963 PM 106
80 parishioners attended
PC to try to buy the Church Hall

25/11/1963 PC 641
12 garages to be built at Lusted Hall Lane
Sturton resigned
Softley to be co-opted

6/12/1963 C 3
Discussing purchase of Church Hall

16/12/1963 PC 642
Miss Knight Chairman
Resolved to lease Church Hall with option to purchase by 21/12/1965
DC erected bus shelter on Clarks Lane

20/1/1964 PC 643
Appeal against Parson’s Shaw enforcement order
Main drainage to be extended to Paynesfield Road and Ricketts Hill Road areas
Fire engine took 30 minutes to reach Wedgwoods yard
Softley assumed office

27/1/1964 PC 644
to discuss precept in the light of the Church Hall deal

10/2/1964 PC 645
Held at Church Hall
to discuss details of Church Hall take-over

17/2/1964 PC 646
Details of Church Hall transfer
Discussion of derelict parcels of land adjourned
Fire brigade says appliances arrived at Wedgwoods Yard 11, 16 and 18 minutes after call

16/3/1964 PC 647
Held at Church Hall
Largely on Church Hall transfer

23/3/1964 PM 107
35 parishioners
Hall lease had been signed
Full details of committee members given
Sir John Vaughan Morgan MP had visited the school
Clarks Lane bus shelter had been built
Discussion of street lighting on the Approach Road

13/4/1964 C 4
PC meets in committee with Hall management Ctte

20/4/1964 PC 648
Gypsies had camped at the entrance to Chestnut Avenue

25/5/1964 PC 649
No new matter of note

10/6/1964 C 5
meeting with DC planning officers

15/6/1964 PC 650
Miss Knight Chairman
Call for parish meeting to discuss the pond
Only 6 garages at Lusted Hall Lane

22/6/1964 C 6
PC and Hall Management Committee

2/7/1964 PM 108
Pond
40 parishioners attended
“Keep the pond” passed by 29 to 9
“PC to draw up scheme” passed 25 to 0

20/7/1964 PC 651
Mains water and mains drainage extensions making progress
Call for interceptor in pond
6 garages for Lusted Hall Lane houses

10/8/1964 PC 652
Lease of hall exchanged
Pond to be left as it is
Sewer being connected to six houses next to Park Farm
Legal action being taken against Miss Hazel Wright over straying horses

7/9/1964 C 7
Details of hall improvements

21/9/1964 PC 653
More on hall - PC took over 1.1.64
Parsons Shaw appeals dismissed but OK for 2 caravans which had been there for more than four years
Residents’ Association suggest formation of a youth club

29/9/1964 C 8
Details of hall toilet block etc.

12/10/1964 C 9
Details of hall works

19/10/1964 PC 654
More on hall
Surrey Social Services suggest pond should be dredged and rushes planted
Schoolchildren to plant bulbs on Westmore Green
Mr Gibbons and ramp at Cavalaire

16/11/1964 PC 655
More on hall
Constable Fortescue had been injured by straying horse
Kemsley and Parkwood Roads want mains water
Old Lane ditch needed clearing

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