Tim Prater

02
Apr
2026
Finance Committee Minutes 30-03-2026

Finance Committee Minutes 30-03-2026

The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council Finance Committee meeting, held on 30th March 2026, in Sandgate Library.

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You can find previous Sandgate Parish Council Finance Committee Agendas, Minutes and Financial Reports on this website. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. The Clerk then posts draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page. Those meeting recordings are then left live for a few months after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later!

The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.

The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.

Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.

Posted by Tim Prater in Minutes, Resources
31
Mar
2026
Planning Committee Minutes 30-03-2026

Planning Committee Minutes 30-03-2026

The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council Planning Committee meeting, held on 30th March 2026, in Sandgate Library.

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You can find previous Sandgate Parish Planning Committee Agendas and Minutes on this website. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. The Clerk then posts draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page. Those meeting recordings are then left live for a few months after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later!

The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.

The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.

Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.

Posted by Tim Prater in Minutes, Planning
17
Mar
2026
Finance Committee Agenda 30-03-2026

Finance Committee Agenda 30-03-2026

The agenda of Sandgate’s Parish Council Finance Committee meeting. We will hold the meeting on 30th March at 6pm. It will be held in Sandgate Library.

Finance Committee Agenda

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Our Finance Committee meeting is open to press and public. Please could any member of the public who wants to attend notify us via clerk@sandgate-pc.gov.uk in advance. This allows us to ensure we have sufficient seats and allow reasonable spacing.

We publish our financial reporting on the “in-running” budget monthly. So at this meeting we will consider the reports since the last meeting.

Previous Sandgate Parish Council Finance Committee Agendas, Minutes and Financial Reports.

We use (the excellent) Scribe Accounts to manage our Council accounts and generate reports.

Sandgate Parish Council’s finances are governed by our Financial Regulations and Standing Orders, and every Town and Parish Council has similar rules. Because those rules govern our financial management, we can only amend or vary them by a Council resolution.

The Council’s Standing Orders require quarterly reporting of receipts, payments and balances. For instance, they say at 17.c:

The Responsible Financial Officer shall supply to each councillor as soon as practicable after 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in each year a statement to summarise:

i. the council’s receipts and payments for each quarter;

ii. the council’s aggregate receipts and payments for the year to date;

iii. the balances held at the end of the quarter being reported

and which includes a comparison with the budget for the financial year and highlights any actual or potential overspends.

We’re now publishing our reports monthly, exceeding that requirement. Consequently we will consider the reports at the next Parish Council Resources Committee meeting.

Posted by Tim Prater in Agenda, Resources
17
Mar
2026
Planning Committee Agenda 30-03-2026

Planning Committee Agenda 30-03-2026

The agenda for the Sandgate Parish Council Planning Committee meeting, to held on 30th March at the fall of the Finance Committee meeting (or 6.15pm, whichever is later) at Sandgate Library.

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The Planning Committee meeting is open to press and public. If any member of the public wishes to attend, please can they notify clerk@sandgate-pc.gov.uk in advance. This allows us to ensure we have sufficient seats and allow reasonable spacing.

Previous Sandgate Parish Council Planning Committee Agenda and Minutes. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. We then post draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

Most of our meetings will be broadcast live on our Facebook page. Recordings of the meetings will be left on Facebook for a few months after the meeting so they can be watched back later. Comments left on Facebook broadcasts during the meeting are not be monitored and are not a way of feeding back to the Council.

Minimum Notice

We issue agendas at least three clear days before a meeting. We display them on the noticeboard in the library, Parish noticeboards on the Village Green and by Enbrook Valley shops, and on our website.

The minimum three clear days for notice of a meeting does not include:

  • the day of issue of the agenda, or;
  • the day of the meeting, or;
  • a Sunday, or;
  • a day of the Christmas break, or;
  • a day of the Easter break, or;
  • of a bank holiday, or;
  • a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning.

Meeting in Public

All meetings of our Council are open to the public, except in limited defined circumstances. We can only decide, by resolution, to meet in private when discussing confidential business or for other special reasons where publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest.

Those reasons might include, for example, discussing the conduct of employees, negotiations of contracts or terms of tender, or the early stages of a legal dispute.

Posted by Tim Prater in Agenda, Planning
17
Mar
2026
Parish Council Meeting Agenda 30-03-2026

Parish Council Meeting Agenda 30-03-2026

The agenda for the Sandgate Parish Council Full Parish Council meeting, to held on Monday 30th March 2026, in Sandgate Library at 6.30pm (or the fall of the Planning Committee meeting, whichever is later).

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The Council meeting is open to press and public. If you would like to attend this meeting, please notify clerk@sandgate-pc.gov.uk in advance. Letting us know allows us to make sure we have sufficient seats for you and allow reasonable spacing.

We keep a full list of previous Sandgate Parish Council Meeting Agenda and Minutes on this website. We publish those agendas a few days before each meeting, and will also post draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

Most of our meetings are broadcast live on our Facebook page. We’ll then leave those recordings on Facebook for a few months after the meeting so you can watch them back later.

Minimum Notice

We issue agenda’s at least three clear days before a meeting. We display them on the noticeboard in the library, Parish noticeboards on the Village Green and by Enbrook Valley shops, and on our website.

The minimum three clear days for notice of a meeting does not include:

  • the day of issue of the agenda, or;
  • the day of the meeting, or;
  • a Sunday, or;
  • a day of the Christmas break, or;
  • a day of the Easter break, or;
  • of a bank holiday, or;
  • a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning.

Meeting in Public

All meetings of our Council are open to the public, except in limited defined circumstances. We can only decide, by resolution, to meet in private when discussing confidential business or for other special reasons where publicity would be prejudicial to the public interest.

Those reasons might include, for example, discussing the conduct of employees, negotiations of contracts or terms of tender, or the early stages of a legal dispute.

Posted by Tim Prater in Agenda, Council
05
Mar
2026

Proposed changes to Traffic Regulation Order – Radnor Cliff and Radnor Cliff Crescent, Sandgate

In the District of Folkestone & Hythe

The Kent County Council (Various Roads, FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE)

(Waiting Restrictions and Street Parking Places)

(Consolidation) Order 2026 (amendment 16) Order 2026

Notice is hereby given that KENT COUNTY COUNCIL intend to make the above Order under sections 1(1), 2(1) to (3), 3(2), 4(1) and (2), 32(1), 35(1), 45, 46, 49, 53 and 122 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and of all other enabling powers, and after consultation with the chief officer of police in accordance with Part III of Schedule 9 to the Act:

The Order will revise parking and waiting restrictions in the following road in Folkestone:

Radnor Cliff Crescent (part), Radnor Cliff

The proposal seeks to amend the current permit holders only parking and limited waiting as follows

Radnor Cliff Crescent: From Wells House to the junction with Radnor Cliff – 1st April to 30th September – Permit holders only 8am – 6pm. 1st October to 31st March, Permit holders or 2 hours, no return in 2 hours.

Radnor Cliff: 1st April to 30th September – Permit holders only 8am – 8pm. 1st October to 31st March, Permit holders or 2 hours, no return in 2 hours.

The proposal also includes At Any Time restrictions in Radnor Cliff Crescent outside Wells House and in Radnor Cliff to also include loading restrictions to create passing places and to protect access to a number of driveways

Full details are contained in the draft Order which, together with the relevant drawings, a copy of any orders which will be amended by the proposed Order, and a statement of the Council’s reasons for proposing to make the Order may be examined at The Council Offices notice board, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, or by email traffic.orders@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk or on our website https://www.folkestone-hythe.gov.uk/parking

If you have any questions concerning the Order or require further information, please contact Folkestone & Hythe District Council (Parking Services), Civic Centre, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2QY or email parking.services@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk

If you wish to make an objection or comment about the proposed Order, you must write to Folkestone & Hythe District Council (Traffic Orders), Civic Centre, Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone, CT20 2QY or email traffic.orders@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk. Your objection must specify the grounds on which it is made. For your objection or comments to be considered they must reach us by 5pm on Friday 27th March 2026. For legal reasons we cannot accept any objection or comment over the phone or in person.

This Notice is published by Folkestone & Hythe District Council on behalf of Kent County Council Highways and Transportation, County Hall, Maidstone, ME14 1XQ (part of Kent County Council).

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Posted by Tim Prater in News
26
Feb
2026

Temporary Closure of Public Footpath HF8

Kent County Council has made an Order the effect of which is to temporarily close Public Footpath HF8 for its entire length between Public Footpaths HF59 & HF69, from the 27 February 2026.

The paths will be closed for a maximum of six months, although it is expected that they will reopen sooner.

The paths are to be closed because development works are planned on or near them.

The alternative routes are a route parallel to HF8, HF69 & HF56 to the northwest of Martello No.6 and will be signed for the duration of the closure.

For detailed enquiries please contact Edward Denne.

Contact Centre no. 03000 41 71 71

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Posted by Tim Prater in News
26
Feb
2026
Planning Committee Minutes 23-02-2026

Planning Committee Minutes 23-02-2026

The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council Planning Committee meeting, held on 23rd February 2026, in Sandgate Library.

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You can find previous Sandgate Parish Planning Committee Agendas and Minutes on this website. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. The Clerk then posts draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page. Those meeting recordings are then left live for a few months after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later!

The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.

The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.

Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.

Posted by Tim Prater in Minutes, Planning
24
Feb
2026
Parish Council Meeting Minutes 23-02-2026

Parish Council Meeting Minutes 23-02-2026

The minutes of Sandgate’s Parish Council meeting, held on 23rd February 2026, in Sandgate Library.

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Meeting video at: https://www.facebook.com/sandgatepc/videos/793301163761115

Previous Sandgate Parish Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes. We publish agendas a few days before a meeting. We then post draft minutes in the week after a meeting.

Most of our meetings are also broadcast live on our Facebook page. Those recordings are left on Facebook for a few months after the meeting so can be watched back later.

We broadcast our meetings live on our Facebook page (although we’re sorry: this one was not). Those meeting recordings are then left live after the meeting, giving you the chance to watch it back later. However Facebook are now removing recordings older than a few weeks, so don’t wait for long!

The next suitable meeting will formally approve the draft minutes of this meeting. When approved, the Chairman of that meeting then signs them.

The signed minutes of the meeting serve as the legal record of what has taken place at the meeting. Before a meeting approves the draft minutes of a preceding meeting, the meeting may, by resolution, correct any inaccuracies in the draft minutes. The attendance (or otherwise) of the Chairman or those voting in favour to amend or approve of the minutes is irrelevant.

Only if meeting minutes are found to be inaccurate after they have been signed can they then be altered. Inaccuracies in signed minutes can only be amended by resolution at a subsequent meeting.

Posted by Tim Prater in Council, Minutes