
Twenty IS Plenty for Sandgate!
Kent County Council accepts the case for a short 20mph zone on the A259 on Sandgate High Street.
Tim has lived and worked in Sandgate (on Sandgate High Street) since 2004.
A trustee of the Sandgate Heritage Trust, Secretary of the Sandgate Members Club, Treasurer and Trustee of the Chichester Memorial Hall, former Trustee of the Gurkha Memorial Fund and former Governor of St Martin's School, and current Sandgate Speedwatch volunteer, Tim knows and works for the area!
Tim is honoured and delighted to have been elected as:
In May 2023 Tim was re-elected to all the above seats for four more years. At the District Council AGM on 24th May 2023, he became Deputy Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance and Governance.
Previously, Tim has served on Folkestone Town Councillor for Cheriton from 2006-2011, and Shepway District Councillor for Cheriton from 2007-2011, Kent County Councillor for Folkestone West from 2009-2013. He has sat on Sandgate Parish Council for Sandgate Village since 2011, was the Vice Chair of Sandgate Parish Council from 2018-2020 and Chair from 2020 to date.
Contact Tim by email to tim@prater.uk, call 07956 276118 or write to 98a Sandgate High Street, Folkestone CT20 3BY. As a District Councillor he runs monthly surgeries at the 1st Sandgate Farmers and Makers Market of every month at the Chichester Hall, 70 Sandgate High Street from 11am-12.30pm (and has each month since election in 2019). No appointment needed: just turn up.
Kent County Council accepts the case for a short 20mph zone on the A259 on Sandgate High Street.
Join us over this August Bank Holiday weekend at the Sandgate Sea & Food Festival. The event will be held along Granville Parade extending to Sandgate Castle and in Castle Road Car Park.
An update on ground water levels in the South East, from Affinity Water.
The Lib Dem Folkestone & Hythe District Council team of Gary Fuller and Tim Prater were happy to support a motion to look to enhance the area's biodiversity last week.
Sandgate and West Folkestone Councillor Tim Prater has got the support of the Folkestone & Hythe Joint Transportation Board to strongly support a 20mph zone though Sandgate.
It's like an early draft for a scene from a Muppet Christmas Carol, rejected for having too many muppets, zero literary style and no goodwill whatsoever.