Waverley Borough Council has announced that it has suspended its “Brown Bin” fortnightly household garden waste collection service until further notice.
This is due to the impact on staffing levels resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. Collections stopped from this Monday (January 11, 2021).
Please look at the link below for more details and a full statement:
Work is now well underway at Lane End to replace old gas mains, and the road is closed to all traffic.
The parish council has been in regular contact with SGN, the gas provider, and has asked if the road could remain open to vehicles, perhaps with traffic light control.
However, as the photos show, wide trenches are being dug and space must be allowed for use by machinery and to allow for safety and the required social distancing under Coronavirus rules.
The work, which started on Monday, is expected to last for 12 weeks, with vehicles diverted via Milford, a distance of approximately three miles. For those heading south, an alternative is Vann Lane, Pockford and Chiddingfold.
A footpath beside the excavations has been provided and access to adjacent properties will be maintained. The road closure is between the Wormley Lane and Cricket Green/Vann Lane junctions on Lane End.
Robin McKeith, the Hambledon Parish councillor with responsibility for highways and maintenance issues, said: “Following a slow start to the roadworks on Monday the 4th January, the gas main work has progressed significantly, and a large trench now stretches as far as the bus stop.
“The Parish Council is in regular contact with the engineers responsible for the maintenance, and will continue to monitor the progress of the work to keep the village updated on the committed 12-week timetable.
If you have any concerns, please contact the Parish Council”.
The council has asked SGN is it can provide a schedule of work so that residents can be assured the timetable is being adhered to and the work completed as swiftly as possible.
For more information about the project please look at previous news stories on this website.
The Government has announced that England is to enter a third lock-down from today (Tuesday January 5th) and the message is to stay at home wherever possible.
As with the previous lock-downs, this presents many challenges.
Please use the Coronavirus Village Information and Coronavirus Support Funds links on the right to find out where help is at hand.
Here in Hambledon, our village shop will remain open and orders can be placed online for home delivery within the area. Please use the Product List and Ordering link on the right for details.
The nursery school can remain open as early-years learning is excluded from the order for schools to shut. St Dominic’s is likely to remain open, catering for children with special needs.
Hambledon church services remain on-line, but weddings and funerals can be held within limitations.
The village pub, the Merry Harriers, must remain closed. Local take-away outlets can stay open, but for food and soft drinks orders only.
Local food shops, garden centres, and building supply businesses can remain open, all others must close. Doctors, dentists and vets are open.
This website has links on its right-hand menu to organisations offering help and advice. These include Hambledon Parish Council, and if anyone has any specific problems that they cannot resolve, please contact Stewart Payne on 07831 393561 or any other parish councillor. Please note that Mike Parry has resigned and his place has been taken by Ali Scott-Bishop, so if you have kept the advice leaflet delivered to all homes at the start of the first lock-down, please amend accordingly.
All parish councillor numbers can be found on this website together with many others which may be helpful in the weeks ahead.
Please remember that the Foodbank is always grateful for donations and the various support funds welcome financial contributions to enable them to continue to their work.
Finally, the Government’s latest National Lockdown Guidance can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/949536/NationalLockdownGuidance.pdf
Work to replace old gas mains at Lane End, Hambledon, started on Monday (Jan 4th), as previously announced, and will result in the road being closed for the duration of the project, which is expected to last 12 weeks.
Road closure and diversion signs are in place. Once excavation work gets under way the road will be closed at all times, the parish council has been informed.
The closure involves the section of Lane End, between Wormley Lane and Vann Lane/Cricket Green. Diversion signs instruct motorists to divert via Petworth Road (A283), Milford and Station Lane to Hydestile, and the same route in reverse for those leaving the village.
This is the quickest route for most, but for those living on Vann Lane and Upper Vann, a diversion via Pockford and Skinners Lane to the A283 on the outskirts of Chiddingfold may be more convenient.
Work to upgrade household gas mains in the Lane End area of Hambledon is due to start tomorrow (Monday Jan 4th), and will result in long-term road closures.
SGN, the gas supplier, has previously stated that the work will take up to 12-weeks and that the road from Wormley Lane to Vann Lane will be closed, although access to properties in the immediate area will be maintained.
Hambledon Parish Council has contacted SGN to seek further information. It asked if the road will be completely closed throughout or will it reopen overnight; can pedestrians pass at all times; will there be some periods when the road will reopen; can the council have a detailed programme of works.
It is hoped more information will be available on Monday morning, so please check back with this website.
It may be that the road will remain open as the contractors set up. The one.network website which maps roadworks, shows the initial closure as being between Vann Lane (Cricket Green) and the village hall.
https://one.network/?119435733&fbclid=IwAR0vWWAbFW_SH3pL5hG14P7308d7y2fyTb-l_ByXgNwj3uMp-meyfUMl1Yc
This website also indicates that there will be roadworks with traffic light control on the Petworth Road, at Phillips garage and half way up Wormley Hill, and, unrelated to Hambledon but worth noting, at Dunsfold between Loxhill and the A281.
Further information about the Lane End roadworks was published on this website last week and can be found here: http://www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk/?p=14246
From Saturday 2nd January the shop will operate 7 days a week (with deliveries Monday to Friday) and the Post Office will operate 6 days a week but the deli will be closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
Monday through Friday when the deli is operating, it will be providing a take away service only, no food and/or drink should be consumed on the premises, including using the shops’ picnic tables.
We politely request that all customers wear face coverings in the vicinity of the shop and maintain a safe distance at all times.
The shop’s operating hours will be as follows:
Delivery
5 days a week
Monday to Friday
10:00 cut-off for same-day delivery
shoporders@hambledonsurrey.co.uk
Personal Shopping
7 days a week
08:30-14:00
Come to the shop, tell us what you’d like and we’ll get the items for you. Sorry, we can’t allow you inside the shop at the moment.
Take Away
5 days a week Monday to Friday
08:30-14:00 (last orders 13:30)
Hot and cold drinks, pastries, cakes, sandwiches, baps, pies and soup to take away.
Post Office
6 days a week
Monday to Saturday
09:30-12:30
Take cash out, pay cash and cheques in, buy stamps, send parcels, pay bills, buy gift cards etc.
With the Football club back in lock down and no football on the horizon. Hambledon FC have signed up to Run the Month – Marathon Edition.
Please follow the link below to either donate or join the team. Throughout January, run 26.2 miles your way, whether it’s a mile at a time or two half marathons throughout the month. Sign up and raise money to fund lifesaving research and support services for men and their families affected by prostate cancer – the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK.
https://www.justgiving.com/team/hambledonfc?invite=true
Wishing all our supporters a safe and Happy New Year.
Come On You Dons
Hambledon Road, blocked for two days by a fallen tree between Hydestile and Feathercombe, reopened yesterday afternoon.
Contractors cleared the beech tree which came down in high winds on Boxing Day night. The parish council has been in contact with West Surrey Golf Course, as the tree was probably on its land. The club has agreed to examine other trees on the roadside verge to ensure all are safe.
Around the village there may be more short delays as Surrey Highways and its contractors deal with any other trees in a dangerous condition following Storm Bella.
* Villagers may be aware from the advance warning signs at Lane End that work is due to start on a planned upgrade to gas mains in the immediate area. This is expected to start on Monday January 4th and is forecast to last for approximately 12 weeks.
The work will require the long-term closure of Lane End, from its junction with Wormley Lane to Vann Lane and Cricket Green. SGN, the gas provider, states that the work is necessary in order to replace old metal mains with plastic pipes to individual properties on Lane End.
Hambledon Parish Council is in contact with SGN to see what measures can be taken to lessen the impact of the road closure and it is hoped to provide more information soon. In the meantime, SGN states that resident access will be maintained. It has consulted with Surrey County Council, the highways authority, and has its approval,
The work is to be carried out by Medway Civils and Utilities Ltd on behalf of SGN. The closure is necessary to undertake the scale of the work and to ensure the safety of engineers.
Local residents should have received letters informing them of the work.
The closure means that access to Hambledon village, including the shop, church, nursery school and pub, can only be achieved by diverting through Milford and Station Lane, to Hydestile, or to Chiddingfold, Skinners Lane and Pockford, to Vann.