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.

10/4/1978 PC 811
RF Payne had been elected vice Mrs Hession at March by-election
PC opposed to setting a speed limit for the village
Proposed youth club
Lusted Hall Lane land for sale
Mr Leslie asks for rights across Tatsfield Green
Part of Crossways Court had collapsed

12/4/1978 PM 127
50 parishioners present
Subsidence - drainage - skateboarding - youth club - Crossway Court collapse

8/5/1978 PC 812
Owen Chairman
Old Bakery planning application for licensed restaurant (Owen declared interest)
URC Church development plan
Mrs A Jupp and Mr Dredge trying to form youth club
Clean up day suggested

12/6/1978 PC 813
Pond had been cleared

10/7/1978 PC 814
Continuing concern - starting some months ago - about mounds of earth at Cheverall’s Farm causing visual obstruction to traffic
Poor attendance at Appraisal Committee meetings
Biggin Hill Airport to be developed

11/9/1978 PC 815
Request by Mr Johnson to erect dovecot outside Old Bakery, place benches on green and move Old Ship sign.
Mrs Geary asks for ducks on pond

9/10/1978 PC 816
Appraisal questionnaire being formulated
4 tons of Pondseal coming on October 27
PC willing to grant Mr Leslie limited access over green

13/11/1978 PC 817
PC upset by Biggin Hill News comments on appraisal - no more minutes to be sent
New notice board coming for Westmore Green - grasshopper by Mr Tapsell
Bromley objected to new village twinning sign in Ricketts Hill Road
Petition for village speed limits

11/12/1978 PC 818
Gas could cost Ł300 per household
Dovecote permitted
MSA again

8/1/1979 PC 819
80-100 signature petition for gas
Speed limit said to encourage urbanisation
Greater London boundary not to be reviewed before 1984

12/2/1979 PC 820
Bassetts application for waste paper store and lorry maintenance unit
D Hayes chairman of village appraisal committee
Vandalisation of commemorative silver birches planted on the green
Crown Road said to be the service road to Dr Bennison’s house
Old Ship licence being transferred

12/3/1979 PC 821
Call for stiles on FP570; trouble with horses; Gorsey Down Farm
DC suggest administering KE VII Memorial Garden with Tatsfield Green
Licence for dovecote signed
Music and dancing licence sought by Old Bakery

9/4/1979 PC 822
Proposal to demolish Working Men’s Club and redevelop
Miss M Kelly - former clerk - had died

11/4/1979 PM 128
40 parishioners present
M25 - BH airport - appraisal - speed limit - county boundary -

14/5/1979 PC 823
Successful conclusion to long negotiations with Mr Collis on access across verge in Ricketts Hill Road
Tree Preservation Order list sent by DC
Conoco licensed to search for oil
Mrs Geary organising old residents’ reunion.

11/6/1979 PC 824
Elected:
Mrs ME Crofts
Mrs AM McHugo
Mrs EMG Player
Mr HW Hunt
Mr PN Owen
Mr RW Pearce
Mr J Softley - Chairman
Continuing concern at development at Beaver Fish Farm
Table tennis club - since 1967 - asks for financial help
Plans for realignment of Sunningvale/Ricketts Hill junction
New Old Ship & Old Bakery sign at B2024/Approach Road junction

9/7/1979 PC 825
Chief Planning Officer present
Old Ship licence transfer lodged
Death of Miss Knight reported

10/9/1979 PC 826
Clerk to investigate Ł100 gift for maintenance of KEVII Garden
Request for resident policeman again
Mr Montieth ready to supply ducks for pond- house being prepared

8/10/1979 PC 827
No information on KEVII Ł100
Conoco to carry out oil survey
Suggestion that White Lane be made one way
Ł2500 easement received for access across Ricketts Hill verge

12/11/1979 PC 828
Owen to resign
SCC sent bill for 13 years rent of seat in Church Hill @ 5p p.a. (No seat for years)
M25 opens 14/11/1979
Clerk to resign

10/12/1979 PC 829
PC to claim Goatsfield/Union Road path
Village appraisal report received

14/1/1980 PC 830
RF Payne co-opted

11/2/1980 PC 831
Mrs C Gulley appointed Clerk
Pearce resigned

10/3/1980 PC 832
Planning application for Old Bakery sign at Approach Rd refused

14/4/1980 PC 833
Police House empty since December

23/4/1980 PM 129

12/5/1980 PC 834
GA Reeve had been elected
Constable to be appointed within six weeks

19/5/1980 PC 835
Softley Chairman
Annual meeting to allot tasks

9/6/1980 PC 836
Nothing of note

14/7/1980 PC 837
DC planning to sell Wedgwood’s Yard
Gully blocked at end of Old Lane

4/9/1980 PC 838
Little of note
Complaints of noise outside shops at the foot of Lusted Hall Lane

13/10/1980 PC 839
Parish Review 1981 - Mr Dothie (DC) suggests alteration on northern border with Bromley

10/11/1980 PC 840
Little of note

8/12/1980 PC 841
Death of Peter Hallam announced - Chairman 1965-68

12/1/1981 PC 842 (POPULATION 1981 - 1853)
KEVII Ground transferred to PC
Mr Dothie suggests Waylands etc. should be transferred to Tatsfield

9/2/1981 PC 843
Continuing concern over recent months about boundary wall of property at Biggin Hill end (No 37) of Lusted Hall Lane

9/3/1981 PC 844
Crown Road becoming an issue
Flooding at the end of Ninehams Road

13/4/1981 PC 845
Volunteers for emergency war team to be sought at APM

/4 1981 PM 130

11/5/1981 PC 846
Reeve Chairman
25 parishioners present - mainly re Wedgwood’s. Vote for parish to purchase, but PC 4:3 against

8/6/1981 PC 847
Little of note

13/7/1981 PC 848
Little of note

14/9/1981 PC 849
KEVII Garden registered as a Charity - 282915
URC Church damaged by fire
Tatsfield had entered Best Kept Village Competition
House index being prepared

12/10/1981 PC 850
Little of note

9/11/1981 PC 851
Continuing dispute with Mr Price - Pond Cottages - over access across green
Flooding at No 2 Crossways

14/12/1981 PC 852
Disagreement with Village Hall Committee over charges

11/1/1982 PC 853
No entry for Best Kept Village Competition

8/2/1982 PC 854
PC to support Farm Shop appeal at Church Farm
Prosecution looms at Pond Cottages
Youth Club to work on emergency maps

8/3/1982 PC 855
Little of note

5/4/1982 PC 856
Little of note

21/4/1982 PM 131

10/5/1982 PC 857
Payne Chairman
Crown Road obstruction
Tatsfield telephones to be transferred to Biggin Hill in 1984
Tables and chairs on Old Bakery triangle
House numbers for Paynesfield Road

14/6/1982 PC 858
DC selling two sites in Shaw and Goatsfield Roads
Rights for 6 water fowl on green
Only 70 children at the school

12/7/1982 PC 859
BT mast to be erected on BG site

13/9/1982 PC 860
1 Pond Cottages owner moved away
BT to retain Tatsfield name in directories
Old Bakery owner quotes Surrey as saying triangle is highway land
Annie Beagley will be 100 years old on 17 September
Concern about delay in replacing village policeman

11/10/1982 PC 861
BT mast refused
Ł650 agreed for access to Pond Cottages

8/11/1982 PC 862
Old Bakery Music and Dancing Licence refused
Water fowl licence for green now refers to ducks
Horticultural Society ask permission for hut behind village hall
Mrs McHugo suggests buying land at the rear of the hall in farm sale

13/12/1982 PC 863
Proposal to buy 4.33 acres behind hall for Ł13000
Old Ship licence transferred to Denis Hyatt
Circus de Reske wish to visit
Civil Defence exercise due in April 1983

10/1/1983 PC 864
PC Duke appointed as village constable
Old Bakery asked to pay for reinstatement of triangle after Christmas tree erected

14/2/1983 PC 865
Buildings at Beaver causing concern
Legal action over Bakery?

14/3/1983 PC 866
Progress on Crown Road
Gate erected in Parkwood Road
Mrs Cooke had made plaque for Pond Cottage Duck licence
Agreed to spend up to Ł3750 on land behind hall
Nora Tapsell given 28 days to leave Park Farm after living and working there all her life

11/4/1983 PC 867
270’ x 70’ of land to be bought

20/4/1983 PM 132
25 parishioners
Only 5 candidates for elections
1.25 acres to be purchased behind hall
81 children in school - 16 from Biggin Hill

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