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East Grinstead Town Council have created a fantastic floral display in the High Street this summer to celebrate, amongst others, the 50th anniversary of our founder, Alfred Wagg. In common with many great benefactors, Mr Wagg was apparently a bit shy of publicity, but hopefully if he saw this display he would appreciate the sentiment.

The Sports Pavilion at East Court has suffered two graffiti attacks in the last few weeks. Early in June some very offensive obscene artwork appeared, and no sooner had that been removed than another lot appeared overnight on the 21st June. The photo shows the mess on the wall, but a door and two information

Earlier in the year we reported that certain grass areas at East Court would in future be left unmown to encourage wildflowers and the insects that are associated with them. Despite the fact that we haven’t had much rain this summer, the unmown patches are now clearly visible, with an abundance of wild flowers already

Mid Sussex District Council have installed a new 2.1m height barrier, with associated bollards to the sides, at the vehicle entrance to the grassed areas of East Court. This should help prevent the ingress of Travellers as happened in 2018

Work to improve the McIndoe Path that was started during the winter is now complete, with a handsome new flight of steps making the climb up from the bridge to the higher path, which has also been resurfaced, now much easier. Previously this area had suffered from excessive erosion as walkers tried in vain to

Work has started on a joint project between MSDC and EGMEL to upgrade the McIndoe Path through Ashplats Wood. The path runs from Lancaster Drive, down to a bridge over the stream, and from there onwards to the East Court playing fields. Every winter it gets extremely muddy, and almost impassable. The project involves installing

Recently, East Grinstead Town Council, who own the East Court Mansion and the adjoining car parks, have implemented some more stringent parking restrictions. Unfortunately this has had the knock-on effect of drivers starting to park their cars along the access road to the sports pavilion, which we own, but is leased to MSDC. The parked

Unfortunately it has recently proved necessary to install very heavy concrete barriers at the end of the road to the sports pavilion to prevent travellers causing further damage to East Court. Whilst all are welcome to enjoy walking the open space and woods at East Court, driving vehicles and caravans over the park causes much

One of our oldest oak trees recently lost a huge limb in high winds The Pendunculate Oak is near the green shipping container on the estate road and when surveyed a few years ago, it was estimated to be 250 to 300 years old. It is listed on the Woodland Trust Ancient tree register. The