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JILL FINN
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SURFACE DRAINAGE - The northern end of Lime Park, where water feeds down and along the gravel drive heading east for the Rectory, then to the ponds. The farmer, John Ford, is (allegedly) responsible for effluent run off through the park.
The building was the subject of planning application WD/2019/1478/F, filed by Alison Deshayes on behalf of her elderly father, Peter Townley. This was essentially a renewal planning application following on from two similar applications by Peter and June Townley from WD/2016/0809/F. Sadly, Mrs Townley passed away, leaving Mr Townley still considering moving to the other side of the courtyard, presumably, meaning that his daughter or grand-daughter could move into his old accommodation to help out with support. This did not happen. Instead, care staff visited several times a day.
Having purchased The Old Rectory for what many would consider a good price, Jill Finn and Nigel Flood applied for planning permission via application number WD/2022/0497/F, to convert the same garages, except that they included an extension east, that had not been considered previously by Wealden District Council. So raising the issue of light and compensation, under the provisions of the Prescription Act, or by other agreement, as may be decided between the parties.
This is what is left of the guttering on the northern face of the Old Rectory. Rainwater drips down the back wall of the old stable buildings onto the passage. If these gutters were kept in good condition, the damp complained of would be reduced. The fear is that with Mr Townley being of advanced age, that his health might suffer if the damp were not properly treated. The same can be said of the asbestos outbuilding. Nobody should live in close proximity to asbestos.
ROOFING - Repairs to the roof above the lounge area February of 2019. This was quite an extensive renovation. A few years before this in 2014 the same builder replaced the hanging tiles that were clay, with what looks to be sand and cement tiles. In our view a great shame that the originality could not have been preserved. We wonder is another builder might have thought it better to match up to the old tiles, or if it was penny-pinching on the part of the owners.
HANGING TILES - This was the Old Rectory in 2014, with the old clay tiles removed, breather in place and battens applied. Not a bad job. The old clay tiles must have been in very bad condition, or maybe there was an exchange, with the clay tiles from this job going to another site. We've heard of such exchanges before. It is more likely that the original tiles were shot.
PART TILED - The replacement tiles do not match the brickwork or the original tiles in the courtyard, but at least the damp penetration was stemmed. Curious how with damp being a problem for the occupiers in 2014, that damp is being ignored, by allowing the defective guttering to the rear of the complex to continue to leak. It is almost as if they want the passage to be soaked.
The directors of Lime Park Estates Limited as at the 15th of July 2012 were:
* Shelagh Claire Lambert (17-09-53 Sales Executive) * Peter Gwyn Langford Townley (15-07-1924 - Retired) * Louise Elizabeth Jones (06-09-1959 - Receptionist BMW Hailsham) * Camille Anne-Marie De Kok (12-03-1961 - Sales Manager Camlock Systems)
Prior to this Henry Arnell and Gillian Arnell were residents, naming number 2 Lime Park: Linden House.
PROPERTY PRICE HISTORY:
East Lodge, Lime Park - Estimated value £ 256,000 (range £204,800 to £307,200) Findaproperty.com/valuation/church-road & Findaproperty.com/house-valuation
Linden
House, Lime Park - Sold £354,957 freehold 22 Aug 2006 (Rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/) Lime House, Lime Park - Sold £310,700 freehold 26 Apr 2001
Lime House, Lime Park - Sold £165,000 freehold 4 July 1997 (Zoopla.co.uk/house-prices)
RECTORY OCCUPIERS 2016 - June and Peter Townley in years gone by. Peter Townley was the controlling mind of Lime Park Estate Limited along with Henry Arnell, who once said to the occupier that he'd like to bulldoze the historic generating buildings. Peter Townley tried for years to purchase the former generating station at a knock down price. Wealden aided and abetted that ambition by way of a conspiracy to deceive the Secretaries of State as to the archaeological find on their doorstep. Yes, this is true. Wealden's officers conspired to misdirect Inspector Raymond Dannreuther between 1986 and 1987. That is one interpretation. It is also true that Peter Townley was in the Royal Marines, and the Inspector was a Royal Navy man. And both men lived in and around Hastings and Bexhill-On-Sea, before the Townleys moved to Herstmonceux. It is likely that both men knew each other. In any even with such connection, a degree of bias was inevitable. Possibly making it easier for George White and Thomas Hoy to dupe the Secretary of State. The Inspector should perhaps have declared an interest and allowed a person with no connection to anyone in Lime Park to hear the Appeal. We doubt that he/they and/or the council, thought that the connection would be discovered.
[LEFT] Where gutters and down pipes are working, the area below is drier. [RIGHT] Below the defective gutters on the rear of the subject buildings, the ground below is demonstrably wetter. It would pay the occupiers of the Old Rectory to repair their gutters.
SUSSEX INDEX A - Z
CHIDDINGLY - HORSE SHOW and GYMKHANA CUCKMERE VALLEY - EXCEAT TWISSELLS MILL, OLD HEATHFIELD
FIRE TRUCKS - Parking and access is sometimes a problem in Lime Park. This picture shows a garbage truck stuck on the north-west corner of the drive in April 2019. Another truck of similar dimensions could not negotiate the same turn in 2016. Hence, this is a known problem area. The Deed Covenants say that the drive must be kept clear at all times. This is especially important for Fire engines. As required by the East Sussex Act.
Herstmonceux (pronounced: "Hers-mon-zoo") is a village in the county of East Sussex in the South East of England. It is the location of Herstmonceux Castle and the former site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Herstmonceux is also famous for trugs. These are baskets made from willow boards set in an ash or chestnut frame. However, this tiny village, with its single parade of shops along the busy A271 (Gardner Street), a bottleneck for traffic, is perhaps more famous for The Old Generating Works (Herstmonceux Museum), which together with Rudyard Kipling's Batemans, is the only surviving evidence of the early electricity generating industry in Sussex. This building was included on a Monument Protection Programe (MPP) since it had fallen into a state of disrepair, much as the windmill at Windmill Hill, had been allowed to deteriorate to the stage where that almost fell down. The windmill was saved with the help of a £500,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery fund.
Other buildings of note in the locality include Lime House and Lime Cottage. Lime Cottage is a grade 2 listed building. Lime House is the manor house previously owned by the Baron de Roemer. It was his son Charles who built the generating building and supply network which gave electricity to Herstmonceux in advance of other towns. A pioneer indeed. Before that, the famous travel writer, Augustus Hare lived in the Park.
SHARED DRIVE MANAGEMENT
Lime Park Estate Limited is a company that was originally brought into existence to bully and litigate against one occupant in the Park. Peter Townley and Henry Arnell were the main antagonists and controlling minds in the 1980s. The intention was to take control of the shared drive from Wickens Estates Limited and use the company as a shield to seek to gain a pecuniary advantage (as costs) to force the one occupant they were dead set against, to sell. Their plan did not work because they had not properly read their maps and plans and were trying to gain a £0.50 pence award for the treatment of a dead holly tree. Unfortunately for Peter and Henry, the tree they had chosen to have a go about was not even in Lime Park.
The Companies Acts describes such use of a company as an act of oppression - which is of course unlawful - and as that mantra moved past November 2006, became illegal by virtue of the Fraud Act 2006, with anyone involved potentially liable in respect of the Accessories Aiding and Abettors Act 1861 and Magistrates Courts Acts 1952 and 1980.
Unless resolved, this is a matter for Companies House, possibly involving the disqualification of any and all directors, unless they work to correct their modus operandi and include the interests of all those using the shared drive in their day to day thinking.
Conspiracy to cause loss is a criminal offence under the provisions of the Criminal Law Act 1977. The maximum penalty against conviction can be life imprisonment.
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