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South East
South East Report
The RHS Wisley Harvest Weekend on October 24th and 25th was a very successful occasion for the NAS South
East team. We recruited four new individual members, as well as distributing quite a number of application forms. The RHS departed from their normal autumn format of a ve day show to a couple of two day events, at the end of October. The South East committee have been forming a group of volunteers for assisting on our show stand and this weekend was the best yet thanks to fourteen members coming together at some time or another over the two days. Thank you to all who helped.
Although the ‘show team’ is coming together, the actual South East committee is starting to decrease; during the last
twelve months we have lost two members, leaving us with only six. As much as they are very dedicated and hardworking, there is only so much that they can do. As you all know from your site committees, it is dif cult to recruit committee members. No one lasts inde nitely and we are reaching a desperate situation. If you want the regional committee to survive and continue (this is where regional business is discussed and acted upon and where the region rep is programmed to raise issues with the committee at Head Of ce), then please get in touch with me so that we can convene an AGM and increase the committee and look to the future to nd a prospective region representative.
Steve Clements
Kings Hill’s Long Awaited Allotments
Against all odds and bad weather on the day, there were smiles all round for the grand opening of Kings Hill Parish Council’s new allotment site at The Kings Hill Sports Park, Beacon Avenue on Saturday 7th November.
In 2007 the rst negotiations to ful l representations from residents for an allotment site on Kings Hill were started. In 2014, land for
the allotment site was gifted to the community by Liberty Property Trust and Kent County Council. The design
Christine Baldock attend the ceremony, together with a number of Kings Hill Parish Councillors. Mr Buttress opened the allotment site by cutting the ribbon to open the entrance gates onto this modern, newly constructed 75 plot site and kindly gave advice to allotment tenants who were able to attend the opening ceremony.
Kings Hill Parish Council Chairman, Mr David Waller said, “Councillors and staff invested an enormous amount of time and
for the allotment site was agreed and on-site construction started in March 2015.
Mr Buttress opened the allotment site by cutting the ribbon
effort to create Kings Hill’s eagerly awaited allotments and so it was a moment of immense pride for us to host Jim Buttress and numerous local dignitaries and residents, at our of cial opening ceremony on Saturday”.
Because of the awful weather, the after ceremony refreshments were quickly relocated to
Works were delayed due to very wet weather
and it was not until July 2015 that the site was
completed and the rst tenants took occupancy
of their new allotments. The new site has security
fencing, self-closing water standpipes, an emergency vehicular access road, a disabled parking bay and a loading bay.
the Sports Pavilion, also at Kings Hill Sports Park, where guests were able to enjoy mulled wine and carrot cake in the warm and the dry.
Kings Hill Parish Council plays a signi cant role in shaping the dynamic and ever growing new community on Kings Hill.
For more details please contact Barbara Hucker on 01732 870 382 or email of ce@kingshillparish.gov.uk.
The opening saw celebrity and veteran horticulturist Mr Jim Buttress, Patron of South and South East in Bloom and a judge on the TV series ‘The Big Allotment Challenge’, the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling, Councillor Owen Baldock and the Mayoress, Mrs
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