VACANCY FOR A COUNCILLOR 
PARISH COUNCIL OF LOXWOOD
 
1.THERE ARE TWO VACANCIES ON THE ABOVE PARISH COUNCIL.
  
2.A BY-ELECTION TO FILL THE VACANCY WILL BE HELD, IF WITHIN 14 DAYS (not counting Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday or Bank Holidays) FROM THE DATE BELOW(11th September 2026), TEN (10) ELECTORS FOR LOXWOOD PARISH  GIVE WRITTEN NOTICE TO REQUEST THAT THE VACANCY BE FILLED BY ELECTION TO THE RETURNING OFFICER, CHICHESTER DISTRICT COUNCIL, EAST PALLANT HOUSE, 1 EAST PALLANT, CHICHESTER, WEST SUSSEX, PO19 1TY (Telephone 01243 521010).
  
3.THE NOTICE MUST BE GIVEN IN WRITING OR ON A FORM OBTAINABLE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE RETURNING OFFICER AND MUST INCLUDE THE ELECTORAL NUMBERS OF ALL ELECTORS REQUESTING THE FILLING OF THE VACANCY BY THE ELECTION PROCESS.
  
4.IF NO SUCH NOTICE IS GIVEN WITHIN THE TIME ALLOWED, THE PARISH COUNCIL WILL FILL THE VACANCY BY CO-OPTION.
  
DATED 24th August 2026 SIGNED  J Bromley
                                                                   Clerk/Chairman of the Parish Council
 
ADDRESS: PO Box 1094,  Horsham. RH12 9YS.

Loxwood Parish Council is pleased to confirm that the North Hall playground will re‑open at 12pm on Wednesday 22 July. We are grateful to local families for their patience during an upgrade that took longer than anticipated. Ensuring the playground was completed safely and to a high standard has been our priority throughout.

West Sussex County Council is boosting recycling across the county with a major upgrade to its Horsham waste site.
In April this year we expanded the Anaerobic Digestion facilities at the site so we can recycle thousands of tonnes of food waste into clean energy and fertiliser each year.
This modern, sustainable way of managing waste and reducing its impact on the environment is already delivering results. Since April 2,670 tonnes of food waste, roughly the equivalent of around 200 double-decker buses, have been converted into renewable energy.
The Anaerobic Digestion and Resource Recovery Facility (ADRRF), run by Biffa as part of the West Sussex Waste Partnership (WSWP), ensures that food waste collected from homes across West Sussex is recycled locally using a process called anaerobic digestion. This creates renewable energy to help power the plant with excess exported to the National Grid, as well as nutrient-rich fertiliser for use on farmland.
The ADRRF facility has the capacity to process the 35,000 tonnes of food waste expected to be collected from households across the county each year, helping West Sussex to meet new national recycling requirements.

Find out how your food bin waste is being transformed into energy and fertiliser:
https://www.youtube.com/@WSRecycles

David Bridges and Dr Alan Birch gave a very interesting talk on the Wood White Butterfly at the Annual Parish Meeting on 22nd May 2026. They have been surveying the Loxwood Woods area recently and found several butterflies int his area which has given them reason to believe it is expanding in numbers which given its previously thought rarity is very good news. This spring and summer they are intensifying their surveying efforts and require public help. If when you are out and about you spot one of the butterflies as shown below and not to be confused with other white species such as the Cabbage White, please can you let them know.

The rare Wood White Butterfly is thought to be inhabiting the area outlined in the map below. If you spot it in this area please can you email [email protected]

Chichester Food Bank have asked that their thank you letter to the Parish Council be published 

​​NORTH HALL PLAY AREA The Parish Council are pleased to announce they have received grant funding of £15,000 from Chichester District Council towards the renovations of the North Hall Play area. This funding together with Community Infrastructure Levy from Parish development has enabled this project to go ahead in the Spring 2026. ​
 
ANNUAL PARISH MEETING 22nd April 2026 7.30pm North Hall. UPDATED to 22nd May 2026
David Bridges and Dr Alan Birch will be speaking at the Annual Parish Meeting on a very exciting project.  They have been very busy surveying woodland around Loxwood, Plaistow and other parts of NW Sussex for the rare Wood White butterfly!
Until last summer, the Wood White appeared to be barely 'hanging on' in Sussex, with just two rather weak colonies in woods west of Plaistow.  However, as a result of surveys in a number of other woods in NW Sussex they have found three further significant colonies, one being in the woods east of Loxwood.
Their longer-term goal in 2026 is to carry out more comprehensive surveying across NW West Sussex in areas of potentially suitable habitat. They want to encourage as many people as possible to look out for and report any sightings of this butterfly in gardens, roadside verges, damp land in woodland or adjacent to ditches or streams, or on odd pockets of habitat or wherever it might turn up!  
They will be speaking at the Annual Parish Meeting on this topic with plenty of photographs.
David Bridges is behind a lot of biodiversity work that has been undertaken in Warnham and Broadbridge Heath such as the wild flower meadow area on the approach to Broadbridge Heath and all the swift boxes on houses around Warnham. David is an interesting and motivating speaker.
 
LOXWOOD COMMUNITY GARDEN INITIATIVE Thank you to members of the LGCI for planting all the bulbs around our Parish and the results of this labour is now beginning to show itself as green leaves protrude through the earth.
 
PHOTOGRAPHS OF OUR PARISH Please send in photographs that you feel represent our Parish for inclusion in our emerging Neighbourhood Plan and also planned new website.
 
LOXWOOD PARISH COUNCIL WEBSITE Please keep up to date with all matters Parish Council on the website www.loxwood-pc.gov.uk. The Clerk’s email is [email protected]
FACE BOOK ACCOUNT The Parish Council now has a face book account @loxwoodpc which posts to the Community page. These posts will keep you up to date with Parish Council news and meetings.
NEXT MEETING: 3rd March 2026 and 7th April 2026 7pm Planning and 8pm Full Council North Hall, you are very welcome to attend.

In order to submit an application for a 40mph buffer at Vicarage Hill to include the junctions of Plaistow Road and Skiff Lane the Parish Council needs comments from residents.
Please see the application for WSCC Highways that has been prepared to submit to WSCC Highways and comments to [email protected]