Sandgate Hill Road Safety Meeting
County Councillors Tim Prater and Roland Tolputt are meeting with Kent Highways officers on Monday morning to discuss measures to slow traffic descending down Sandgate Hill from Folkestone into Sandgate.
13 Sep 2009
Folkestone and Hythe News
Speed watch volunteers needed
The Transport Advisory Group (TAG) of Sandgate Parish Council is looking for local volunteers to help with the speed watch campaign. Sandgate Parish Council now has an agreement to use the speed watch camera bought by Folkestone Town Council. Various members of the council and local residents received training in its use over the summer and are now ready to put it into practice, but more helpers are needed.
12 Sep 2009
20mph through Sandgate Village? Your views wanted.
The Transport Advisory Group (TAG) of Sandgate Parish Council has recently been discussing traffic issues on the A259 through Sandgate Village. In particular there have been concerns about Sandgate Hill at the junction with Coolinge Lane and Radnor Cliff Crescent. The concerns are magnified when parents and children are trying to get to and from school.
12 Sep 2009
Kent Highways Online Fault Reporting and Tracking Service
Kent Highways offer an on-line Highways fault and enquiry tracking service at http://www.kent.gov.uk/KHSFaults/ - by using the supplied reference number, you can now track the progress of faults and repairs online.
11 Sep 2009
Shepway's Tories - frightened of democracy?
What is becoming increasingly clear with Shepway's Tories is their intention to keep democracy in the dark. Because of an inability to defend their actions through honest debate they have now stooped to the level of silencing criticism of any sort by whatever possible means.
NMPCFH
10 Sep 2009
Lydd Airport Planning Meeting re-re-re-scheduled for 2010!
Shepway Council Chief Executive has announced a new delay to the planned Shepway Council planning meeting to debate the proposed expansion of Lydd Ashford Airport. In a statement emailed to members, Alistair Stewart said:
10 Sep 2009
Carriageway resurfacing of The Leas, Folkestone
Kent Highway Services are going to undertake some essential maintenance work on The Leas between Clifton Gardens and West Terrace (Monument House). The work will involve planing off the old surface to a depth of 40mm along the parking side and 100mm along the main running lane, where the base course will be replaced the same night. Once this has all been completed, a new surface course will be applied over the whole area which will be followed by the replacement of all of the road markings.
10 Sep 2009
Sandgate beach water quality: 'Two thumbs up'
DEFRA have confirmed that Sandgate, near Folkestone, has met the most stringent Guideline standards in testing of water quality over the past year, with one of the cleanest beaches on the Kent channel coast.
10 Sep 2009
Parliament - root and branch reform needed now!
Remember the MPs' expenses scandal of duck houses, moats and mattresses? The public outrage has diminished since our MPs disappeared on their summer holidays. But MPs who do not wish to derail the gravy train hope that time will be a good healer and the public will forget. This long wait for MPs to sort out their own scandal should be finalised as soon as possible. Sir Christopher Kelly, Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, attacked MPs for allowing themselves to scrutinise their own expenses. His first thoughts were, quiet rightly, that even if they did, it would not command full public confidence. There should be no doubt that Sir Christopher's expenses review should be accepted, in full.
NMPCFH
3 Sep 2009
Charing Cross Direct Trains from Folkestone saved: Southeastern revise draft timetable
Southeastern have reinstated direct peak time trains during peak hours from Folkestone to Charing Cross following a Lib Dem motion to Shepway Council calling for urgent lobbying to protect those direct train services to Charing Cross from Folkestone.
1 Sep 2009
NHS - It's time for much needed reform
Every week people talk to me about health care and the NHS. The NHS is one of our most cherished institutions but its future is not in the hands of the people it is there to serve. Its future is at the mercy of the changing whims of politicians and unaccountable managers. Patients should come first and local people know what they need for their area. Having centrally imposed targets placed on doctors or hospitals has put the patients' needs in second place. Responsibility and accountability needs to rest with a Local Board - answerable to us through elections.
NMPCFH
31 Aug 2009
Lib Dems ask all teachers, nurses and street cleaners in Shepway: 'where is the waste?'
Everyone employed in the public sector - including Shepway's army of hard-working teachers, care assistants, librarians and social workers - is being asked to say where they think taxpayers' money can be saved.
30 Aug 2009