The recent heavy rain in Folkestone and Sandgate has highlighted the shocking state of drain clearance throughout the area. Folkestone West County Councillor Tim Prater has demanded urgent action from Kent Highways after roads turned into raging rivers in places over the weekend.
Ashford Citizens Advice Bureau has been made aware that members of the public are being telephoned by someone pretending to be from CAB and offering debt advice.
A local resident reports:
Members of the public are being invited this week to find out more about plans to add capacity on the M25 in Kent and Surrey, through the delivery of the motorway's first managed motorway scheme.
The Department for Transport is consulting on how to bring the process for assessing eligibility for blue disabled parking badges in to line with the wider reform of disability benefits announced by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Veolia Water South East is from totday lifting temporary use restrictions (ban on the domestic use of hosepipes etc). These restrictions were originally introduced on 5 April after months of below average rainfall. Now an unusually wet spring and early summer with well above average rainfall have opened the way for the lifting of the restrictions.
"You Decide" returned to Folkestone West for 2012 - with more money than ever!
The July 2012 Folkestone West "You Decide" Day has received a huge number of applications this year from groups supporting the Folkestone West community.
I am writing to provide further background on a major capital investment scheme that Veolia Water Southeast is currently undertaking on Romney Marsh. Construction work has now started on Phase 1 of a new strategic water main running from the Denge Water Treatment Works near Lydd to St Mary's Bay. This will replace an older pipeline which has been assessed as having a high risk of bursts. The first phase of construction extends from St Mary's Bay through to Collins Road in New Romney. We have appointed Enterprise Utility Services as the contractor for this phase which is due to be completed by early 2013. Phase 2 of the project between New Romney and Denge Water Treatment Works is being planned for implementation in 2013, with completion in 2014.
I spent more time obliterating graffiti in Folkestone West last week: removing a "tag" from a postbox by the junction of Wilberforce Road and Sandgate High Street.
The Equality and Diversity Objectives set out how the council will tackle discrimination and promote fairness and equality, and have been developed in response to the new Public Sector Equality Duties. KCC would like to hear your views on its proposed Equality Objectives. The council will publish its final Equality Objectives and policy statement after this consultation.
Kent Police have investigated the following incidents:
