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.
Funded by the UK government, the Kent Household Support Fund scheme supports vulnerable Kent households in need of help with significantly rising living costs. The Scheme will be delivered in two phases, Phase 1 Summer Voucher scheme & Phase 2 Winter/Autumn Voucher scheme.
The Summer Voucher scheme is open for applications from 12pm Tuesday 1 August 2023. The scheme will close on Thursday 14 September 2023, or when the budget is spent.
If successful, support will be provided in the form of the following:
£100 voucher to be used to pay for food costs within the household. (Applicants can select an e-voucher from a list of supermarket retailers)
Vouchers will be sent by email or text. If the person receiving the e-voucher does not have a smart mobile phone or access to an email account, the vouchers can be posted to their home address once the supermarket of choice has been selected by the applicant. This option will be available when completing an application form.
There is a limited amount of funding available for this scheme. Funds will be distributed on a first come, first served basis, with only one award per household.
Who is eligible?
Applicants must:
be aged 16 or over.
be a Kent resident, permanently living within one of the 12 local authorities covered by Kent County Council (this excludes Medway, Bromley, and Bexley).
be in receipt of means tested benefits, or have a household income less than £40,000 per annum before tax.
not have savings above £1,000.
*not be receiving free school meal support within their household.
*Free School Meal eligible families will receive an additional energy voucher for each eligible child via their child’s school outside of this scheme.
Eligible FSM families will receive a £100 voucher per eligible child direct from their child’s school during the Autumn term.
Residents with no recourse to public funding are eligible for the scheme. If a National Insurance number is not available, please email householdsupportfund@kent.gov.uk with circumstances and reasons why the applicant should receive this support, attaching supporting evidence to the email.
We do aim to send vouchers out as quickly as possible, usually within 7-10 working days of a successful application being made. However there will be high demand for vouchers, and this could impact on timescales. The applicant will receive email confirmation of the application outcome.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 30th July: Watching carefully for signs of tomato blight.
It was surely tempting fate to mention the dreaded tomato blight in the newsletter last week, as the following day it was found in a group of tomato plants at Pent Farm. The tomatoes there are planted indoors as well as out, and in several locations. The affected plants were close together and in bush form, whereas the others are cordons with space around them. So far these are the only infected plants we have found, and they have been quickly removed, but we will keep a close eye on all the others.
It has to be said that the tomato plants at Enbrook Park are looking particularly splendid, and you can see from the picture below that they are taller than most of the gardeners and as they have plenty of trusses as well as outgrown their supports, we have started to pinch out the tops to prevent any more growth upwards. The suspicion is that some of our wildlife is sampling some of the lower fruits as we often find half chewed and unripe morsels scattered about the plot.
During the week we unsurprisingly had little watering to do except for new plantings of spring onions and purple sprouting and a few potted plants. More lettuces and endives got sown, and weeds cleared in the brassica beds. The butterfly bush or buddleia behind our tool box was truly living up to its name this week as it has been smothered in butterflies. Interestingly, all the butterflies were red admirals, and it was great just to stop working for a while to watch them enjoying the flowers.
The chokeberries or aronias got netted in anticipation of them being eaten by the wildlife as they did last year. They are rich in antioxidants and ‘essential nutrients that promote healthy growth of cells and protect tissues from damage’. They have a sharp, sour taste which may not be popular with everybody, however just a few added to cereal or porridge will be beneficial.
The pond has certainly improved due to the rainfall, and of course the duckweed has made an appearance once more which we are keeping in check by spending some time fishing it out with a net.
It has been a task this year to get hold of woodchips. We use wood chips to create paths on the plot and to mix with other materials to make our compost. Through a chance encounter, Alistair, our compost champion, met a tree surgeon willing to drop us a truckload of chips for a small charge. So happily we now have a great pile of the stuff and can stop scratching around trying to scrape up the last bits we had left!
What’s next?
Lots of seeds need sowing this week!
Cut back the hedge
Bring up some of the wood chips to the composting area
Prick out some of the new seedlings
Bottoms upSplendid outdoor tomatoesButterfly enjoying the flowers
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.
Tenants have moved into a council-managed housing scheme in Sandgate which has undergone significant improvement works.
Work at Ross House forms part of a wider multi-million pound project to help keep tenants warm in winter and cool in the summer through the installation of energy efficient measures.
Ross House in Ross Way, Sandgate, is the council’s first ‘net zero’ enabled residential block. Retrofit work at this site includes externally insulating and rendering the building, insulating the loft and under floor voids, installing photovoltaic panels on the roof and adding more energy efficient air source heat pumps. The block of 16 apartments has also been redecorated and had replacement kitchens fitted.
The work was completed using funding from the first wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF), alongside match funding from Folkestone & Hythe District Council.
Councillors, staff and tenant representatives spoke to tenants at the event and learned more about the efforts being made to improve the district’s social housing stock.
Cllr Rebecca Shoob, Cabinet Member for Housing and Homelessness, said: “It has been fantastic to see the work that has been undertaken to increase the energy efficiency of Ross House.”
“The work being done across our properties in the district will not only improve the comfort of our tenants’ homes but also reduce their carbon emissions.”
It will continue the progress made during the first phase, enabling the council to improve the energy efficiency of a further 300 homes over the next two years.
Using National Bus Strategy Funding provided by HM Government, throughout August, bus passes for Older and Disabled Persons will be accepted for travel in Kent and Medway before 9.30am. So you can now travel for free up until 11pm.
Using your pass before 9.30am is valid Monday to Sunday from 1 to 31 August from the first bus of the day up until 11pm for older persons and disabled persons bus pass holders only.
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 agenda for the Sandgate Parish Council Sea Festival Committee meeting, to held on 31st July 2023 at 7pm (or the fall of the preceding Full Council Meeting, whichever is LATER).
The Sea Festival 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.
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.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 23rd July: Dwarf beans, blackcurrants, tomatoes, fungi and flowers.
Considering the fact that many parts of the world including Europe are experiencing extreme heatwaves, it has to be said that cooler showery/windy weather has to be preferable, although not everybody would agree with that. The showers are so localised, that it can be raining hard at Pent Farm and Cheriton High Street, even at the top of Enbrook Valley, with the rain literally bouncing back off the pavement, yet the rest of Sandgate can be absolutely bone dry! Fortunately Sandgate did get plenty of showers, meaning no, or little watering, and most of the plants are responding well to plentiful water.
Of course, not all plants this time of year will be enjoying the wet, thinking of tomatoes in particular, and already many gardeners are on the lookout for the dreaded blight, as these are perfect conditions for it to turn up out of the blue. We are being vigilant, ready to act should it come our way anytime soon. We have already had some ripe tomatoes from our outdoor plants. The first to appear were the Sungold variety, followed by the black Indigo Cherry Drops, and the Yellow Submarines. After that, the small cherry tomatoes are starting to appear, but the larger varieties are some way behind.
The dwarf beans have been cropping well this year and also seem to have plenty of flowers to continue on. Last year they struggled in the heat and lack of water, later falling victim to blackfly.
The broccoli has also done quite well, and this year we have tried the type which keeps producing side shoots similar to purple sprouting, rather than just producing one large head. This means that you get a longer cropping harvest and not just a load of broccoli all at once. We had hoped to be able to plant the late flowering purple sprouting for next spring; however it is proving to be a little reluctant and is well behind the growth of the earlier varieties. It may have to wait another week or so.
Many of our blackcurrant bushes fared well this year too, mainly because they are a year old and therefore larger. We lost our crop at Enbrook to the badgers, but the bushes at Fremantle Park and the alleyway at Meadowbrook produced some lovely currants which hopefully got picked by local foragers.
Last but not least we have been rewarded with plenty of fungi in the compost bins too; a great sign which means that the compost is doing just what we want it to.
What’s next?
Sow more wallflowers, lettuce, endive, winter radish
Finish weeding the brassica beds under the netting
Net the Aronia bushes before the birds/badgers get them
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