Ferry Road decision delayed – again
Rye News recently reported that the planning decision on the proposed development at the old school site on Ferry Road had not been decided as expected in April. The reason for this being Rother District Council initiating a viability study to ascertain if affordable housing was feasible on this site. The report concluded that it was. You can read Nick Forman’s coverage of that story here.
The latest planning register shows a decision on the application for 88 residential properties has been put back again. It is now due to be decided by August 31.
Meanwhile, there’s still no news on the proposal to develop the site on New Winchelsea Road which would include an Aldi supermarket. The eagerly awaited planning application is still conspicuous by its absence, at least as far as the public domain is concerned.
Rye News will keep checking.
Soap opera royalty
Rye was in the news over the weekend, thanks to 95-year-old actress Thelma Barlow. She played Mavis Riley in Coronation Street for a quarter of a century and was in Rye to watch a film she starred in get its premiere at Rye Kino on Saturday June 29. Thelma was persuaded to come out of retirement to make Sleepless in Settle by friend and actress Judy Flynn, who is based in Rye.
The film was recorded in Rye and Rye Harbour.
Fundraiser for The Salts
Elsewhere in Rye News we’ve the story of how cutbacks at Rother District Council are causing huge problems for Rye Bowls Club. The ending of the council’s grounds maintenance contract at the end of November also has big implications for Rye Cricket Club. On Friday July 12 there’s a Bat and Trap Night to begin building a budget for the Club to take on the responsibility for maintaining the Cricket Salts from December.
To take part you’ll need a team of 6, it’s £10 per team. No experience required. Bar and BBQ. 6.30pm – 9pm. To register your team of 6 contact Martin: blincsfamily@aol.com
Meanwhile Rye Cricket Club has announced details of the Summer Cricket Camp on Thursday and Friday August 8 and 9. It costs £25 a day or £40 if two days booked. The Camp will run from 10am -3pm at Rye Cricket Salts. The sessions will be hardball only, with skills in the morning and games in the afternoon. To sign up your child contact Martin: blincsfamily@aol.com
Bonfire Auction success
Congratulations to Rye Bonfire Society who raised over ten thousand pounds at the auction on Wednesday July 3 at The Mermaid. Rye News will have a full report next week.
Bonfire Night in Rye is on Saturday November 9.
Name needed
Rye Town Council’s planning meeting has an interesting item on the agenda this Monday – what to call a new street in Rye. A town house, five terraced houses and two Airbnb houses are being built off Tower Street behind Webbe’s Fish Restaurant. Tower Mews and Tower Street Mews have both been rejected as names as being too similar to the main street. Dean’s Rag Book Company – a well-known manufacturer of teddy bears and “rag books” – used to be on the site, before that it was Wright and Pankhurst, a removals and haulage firm.
Potential names will be discussed at the planning committee meeting at the town hall on Monday July 8 at 6.30pm. https://ryetowncouncil.gov.uk/category/agendas/
What’s your suggestion? Leave a comment below.
Road Closed
The road to Camber is being closed to allow for much needed repairs next week. East Sussex Highways says it will shut the road for what it describes as “patch repairs” between Salts Farm and near to the Watersports Centre from 8pm until 6pm on Thursday July 11. Traffic will be diverted via Lydd.
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My suggestion for the name of the new street off Tower Street is ‘Seagull Mews’ or ‘Gull Mews’. The birds nest on the rooftops of this area and occasionally divebomb passers-by in the breeding season. They remind people of Rye’s connection with the sea and like Sussex folk they ‘will not be druv’. Like many of us, the birds are battling to survive in difficult times. Rather than naming the street after some obscure local connection or personality, why not acknowledge that nature also plays a part in Rye? Of course, the word ‘mews’ encompasses a double meaning and can be applied to the distinctive call of the seagull. If this suggestion fails to meet with support, may I also suggest ‘Pugwash Close’ as an apt name for the street. This would be in recognition of one of Rye’s most famous characters and his author John Ryan. Rye is currently still waiting for the Pugwash statue in Gun Garden to be approved by RDC, but we hope that the hold-up is soon resolved.
Perhaps as some of us recall Dean’s factory in operation and the rag books being a widely available baby item, the new road name could reflect our local history – perhaps Dean’s Close, Rag Book Way, etc? They were probably the safest introduction to reading matter for young children.
Re: New street name.
I remember playing in the yard at Wright and Pankhurst in the 1950s (my great aunt lived next door to the current Webbe’s). W & P is probably less well-known than Dean’s so how about Dean’s Close/Yard/Mews. I would tend to go for Yard, as that is what it was – Dean’s Yard in Westminster is very posh! Rye is not a “mews” sort of town.
I would definitely agree with including Deans or Pugwash in the name. Also agree that it should be Yard, rather than Mews. So Deans Yard (not sure where the apostrophe goes!) or Pugwash Yard would get my vote.
I plumped for Dean’s Close (or Yard) before reading the earlier comments. Apostrophe as shown. Seems to be the front runner at present.
Rag Book Mews or Rag Book Yard would get my vote. Let’s add to Rye’s roster of quirky street names, and honor a bit of Rye’s history.
Surely the yard should be called warren place,after the family that owned the site for many, many years. .
I like the idea of Dean’s Yard – many people remember Deans with affection. My mother worked for them for many years, we’ve still got one of their ragbooks somewhere!
Deans Yard would be good, as long as we don’t go down the Valley Park route and use one of the old chestnuts like they did up there, absolutely no imagination whats so ever.
We can only have so many Peacocke, Vidler, Jeake and Benson.
The main building has been Webbs fish restaurant for many years but is still known by many locals as Deans.
What is an “AirBnB house”? A property even before it is ready for occupancy that has been determined to be for profit, for short-term rent? Rye is infested with AirBnB. We hardly need more. We need houses for people to live in full time.
I recall that when houses were built in Jarrett’s Yard (which had always been called that) there were objections to the name Yard & it became Jarrettt’s Close. Let’s hope that we can now have a Yard in Rye!