PARISH COUNCIL UPDATES February 2026

​​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.
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.

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