News from Tim Prater
Tim is honoured and delighted to have been elected as:
- Folkestone and Hythe District Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Sandgate & West Folkestone;
- Sandgate Parish Councillor (Independent) for Sandgate Village;
- Folkestone Town Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Folkestone Harvey West;
- Hythe Town Councillor (Liberal Democrats) for Hythe East.
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.
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. No appointment needed: just turn up.
Going on Holiday Soon? Do you know your rights?
For the first time, millions of holiday-makers travelling in the European Union this summer will be protected by comprehensive passenger rights - whether travelling by air or rail, and now also by ship, bus and coach.
5 Jul 2013
New Surface for Sandgate High Street and Sandgate Esplanade
Sandgate Parish Council has received advance warning that the A259 Sandgate High Street and Sandgate Esplanade from its junction with Military Road to the junction with Hospital Hill is scheduled for resurfacing by Kent Highways in late September.
25 Jun 2013
Sandgate bollard gets the "Yarn Bomb" treatment
In fluffy news, Sandgate has met yarn bombing (or "guerrilla knitting") in the last few days, when a knitted cosy appeared on a Sandgate High Street bollard!
25 Jun 2013
Kent Police Special Update June 2013 - Criminal Damage in Cheriton
I am currently investigating several reports of Criminal Damage to parked vehicles in Surrenden Road and Harcourt Road, which occurred on Friday 21st June at approx. 11:05 pm.
PCSOMB
24 Jun 2013
Kent's "Safe and sensible street lighting" plan. Cough.
If you have a difficult policy, give it a name you can't disagree with. That seems to be the Kent County Council approach to streetlighting. Faced by trying to make savings (and reduce the number of lights they have to maintain) they have come up with a two stage policy of first turning off a lot of streetlights, and then secondly switching many more to part-time working so they would be turned off at midnight (or thereabouts) until pretty much dawn.
TP
13 Jun 2013