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.
The Planning Committee meeting is open to press and public. If any member of the public wishes to attend, please can they notify clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk in advance. This allows us to ensure we have sufficient seats and allow reasonable spacing.
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.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 4th August: The Nepalese slipper gourds are clambering away through the cucumbers.
Having just complained last week that there was a distinct lack of summer so far, summer arrived this week, and now it starts to look like we are back to cloudy, windy, showery days with a glimpse of sunshine every now and then. Oh well, as we keep being reminded ‘it is England after all’. The rainfall for July was an impressive 49.9 mm with another 4mm falling during the night as we went into August. However, we must not grumble as it is a doddle to water these days and most of the plants are appreciating a decent frequent downpour.
It has been quite a busy week with more tasks than there was time for, and so it was a question of prioritising what needed to be done first. The coriander got sown, the Chinese cabbages got pricked out into modules, as did the wallflowers. The leeks got planted, pulled out by the birds and replanted again the following gardening session. We had just one dwarf bean plant being plagued by blackfly for some reason, and so we gave it a gentle spray with some soft soap and will have to keep an eye to check that the pesky flies do not try to infest any of the other plants.
The Nepalese slipper gourds are clambering away through the cucumbers and up their climbing frame, they are now flowering and so we are hoping to see how the fruits develop as we have never grown them before.
This year we also experimented with growing onions from sets bought in the autumn and planted in October, and from seeds multi-sown in February, and planted out in March. Sets are more expensive than seed, and it was interesting to note that the onion seeds almost caught up with the onion sets. We have grown onions using both methods but not side by side before. We conducted most of the experiment at Pent Farm where there is more space. It was also interesting to note the difference in growth depending on which bed they were grown in too – the compost used also affects their progress, with some onions being quite large, yet others in another bed were much smaller. There is so much to learn.
Whatever happens we always aim to grow more plants than we need just in case something happens, as often does to vulnerable seedlings, and an annoying space is created when something keels over and dies. So it was that we had at least two dozen decent lettuce plants waiting in the wings with nowhere to go but happily with a little advertising in all the right places, they found homes and are probably nestling down in their new abodes right now.
What’s next?
Still need to tidy up the hedge
Have we got time to sow more wallflowers?
Sow lots of spring onions
Take up the onions and leave the beetroot to carry on – net them.
Slipper gourdsOnions grown from seedsSpare lettuce plants find new homes
Brightly coloured and more than a bit fabulous, Parish Clerk Gaye Thomas has worked with Sandgate Parish Council for over 10 years.
To mark the anniversary, Gaye has generously donated a brightly coloured and more than a bit fabulous bench to the Parish, which was this morning sited on Sandgate Village Green.
Sandgate Parish Chair Tim Prater said:
“Gaye’s commitment to Sandgate over the last decade and more has been second to none, and we’re really touched that she’s has chosen to mark that time with a gift like this to the Parish.
Last Friday was a Kent Speedwatch Action Day and the volunteer Sandgate Speedwatch Team joined in.
Although we have been doing Speedwatch sessions in Sandgate pretty much every week at various locations through the Parish through 2024, we wanted to join the County-wide day, and had a late afternoon session on West Road opposite the newly opened children’s playground.
We were shocked, but sadly not surprised. Local residents have told us regularly there is a speeding problem on West Road. They were right.
In all other locations in Sandgate in 2024 we have seen really good compliance with the speed limit. We have recorded very few people over 35mph. On West Road 9 vehicles, over 4%, were travelling above 35mph – by a children’s playground, remember – with top speeds over 50mph. We have, as ever, reported all our findings to Kent Police, and will be further raising the need for more safety measures along there with Kent Highways.
The speed limit on North Road and West Road always has been, and remains, 30mph. No higher, and especially not now there is a playground there. Community SpeedWatch is entirely run by volunteers, and seeks to raise awareness of the speed of traffic. It raises no money for the Council, Police or others.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 28th July: A squash seems to be climbing through the hedge.
How can it be nearly August when you have been waiting for the summer to arrive? It will be really interesting to see what the rainfall has been for this month, it will be more than usual, and the cloudy days add up to make the month quite disappointing so far. Oh well, some things are certainly enjoying it like most of the brassicas, the squashes are setting their fruits, (one is even climbing through the hedge) and we have picked the first of the courgettes. The sweetcorn has also suddenly started to lurch skywards, and of course the weeds…
We planted some cabbages for late autumn / winter, and managed to get the purple sprouting in too which will start flowering next spring. We pulled a few of our onions which were from seed this year, and picked the first of the dwarf beans. The cucumbers are trying hard to do something, and the Nepalese slipper gourds started to flower. We sowed some Chinese cabbages and potted up some donated bearded irises in preparation for our plant sale which is now a mere four weeks away on Sunday 25th August at the Sandgate Sea Festival. We have been busy collecting and growing all sorts of things for the day, so please get in touch if you have something we can sell to boost the funds.
We had decided several weeks ago as a group, to have a picnic at Pent Farm. Some of us work there, but only a few have been there to see the garden. We were extremely lucky because the weather was just perfect and it was great for us all to be together at the same time, to share some delicious food and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
What’s next?
Plant the leeks
Check the dwarf beans for blackfly
Finish tidying the hedge
Sow more Chinese cabbages and coriander
Leafy plants loving the rainThe squashes and sweetcorn are taking offOur picnic at Pent Farm
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.
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.
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 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.
The Council meeting is open to press and public. If you would like to attend this meeting, please notify clerk@sandgatepc.org.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.
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Kent Highways are responsible for maintaining and repairing roads and pavements.
Let Kent Highways know about highways problems via their online reporting tool, to help them schedule repairs.
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