Kent County Council are in the process of setting up working arrangements called "Locality Boards" across the County. They are intended to be meetings where the area's District and County Councillors can consider issues that relate to both councils and make localised recommendations and decisions to meet a particular areas needs, and where a top down County approach would not have the local information needed.
Shepway District Council have notified Sandgate Parish Council of the following updates:
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced earmarked support totalling £15.9m for the regeneration of 12 city and town centres stretching from Falkirk to Folkestone.
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Sandgate Parish Council has recently taken a lease on the Military Road Recreation Area, with responsilbility to maintaining and improving the park passing to the Parish Council from shepway District Council.
A series of road resurfacing works will be taking place across Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe and Lydd over the next few weeks.
Shepway District Council has announced that it is entering into a contract with external contractors - XFOR Local Authority Services Ltd - to control littering and dog fouling offences in the district.
A public meeting to discuss plans for the future of Romney Marsh will be held on Thursday 21 June.
Kent Trading Standards is advising consumers of a product recall by R&R Ice Cream Ltd. The recall is a precautionary measure as three varieties of its multipack Chokablok ice cream sticks, purchased from Tesco and One Stop stores may contain fragments of broken lolly stick.
Local press reports have unearthed that Folkestone and Hythe MP Damian Collins claimed £38,276 expenses in ONE year. Those claims make Damian Collins the highest-claiming MP in Kent and amongst the highest claiming MPs in the the country.
I have to say that I am completely horrified at the contempt shown by Tory run Shepway Council for local residents.
Kent Trading Standards are alerting members of the public to a product recall issued by B&Q relating to Verve 42cm & Verve 52cm Heated propagators.
there has been considerable press commentary about the incredible decision by Shepway District Council to consult on the possibility of siting a high-level Nuclear Waste dump on Romney Marsh.