Tim Prater

Notice of Variation of Parking Charges for On & Off Street Parking.

The Notices are scheduled to appear in the KM papers on Friday 4^th March 2022. The new charges will apply from 1^st April 2022.

Additionally, they are proposing introducting new parking charges in West Hythe Car Park, and for changes to restrictions in various car parks. The below Notice is scheduled to appear in the KM papers on Friday 4th March 2022. Copies of this Notice will also be erected in all car parks.

Letters of support or objections to the proposed Order will need to be received by 5pm on Friday 25th March 2022 and addressed to Parking Services, Civic Centre, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Folkestone, Kent CT20 2QY or by email to traffic.orders@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk

From emails 24/2/2022 & 25/2/2022 from Folkestone and Hythe District Council, republished by Sandgate Parish Council.

Most people in Kent are recycling plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays. Below is a handy guide to help you get your plastics recycling right.

Why recycle?

People in Kent recycle because it is a worthwhile way to help the environment and the community:

• Recycling keeps plastic out of our natural environment;
• Using recycled plastic to make products uses 75% less energy than using virgin materials, reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

To find out more about plastics recycling please visit www.pledge2recycle.co.uk/kent or visit folkestone-hythe.gov.uk.

If you have issues locally, including recycling collections being missed, you can find how to report those issues at https://sandgatepc.org.uk/report-problems/

My Community Voice is a messaging service from Kent Police. It helps residents, businesses, and community groups to keep in touch with their local policing teams.

The service sends updates about your local area directly from the police officers themselves.

You can sign up at https://www.mycommunityvoicekent.co.uk/

My Community Voice is more than just a messaging service. It allows you to reply to the alerts sent, share information and tell us about the issues affecting you.

Kent Police are committed to engaging with communities to increase trust and confidence and to help protect people from harm. Police, partners and the public working together can build resilient and safe communities, and both reduce and prevent crime.

You will be able to play an active part in police appeals as well as keeping updated in what is happening in your local area.

To start getting alerts, register your details, tell Kent Police how you would like to be contacted and the issues that matter to you. The alerts will come to you via email, text or voice note. If you have any information about an appeal, then you can message back through the alert.

Clicking on the ‘reply’ link within a message will send your reply to the person that sent the message and your local policing team. All emails are read and actioned.

Please note: This service should not be used to report any crime or incident to the police. In an emergency, if a crime is in progress or life is in danger, call 999.

An invitation to community organisations operating in Folkestone & Hythe District to join the 8th in a series of Community Networking Forum events in partnership with Red Zebra:

F&HDC Community Networking Forum ‘All About Volunteers and Volunteering‘

• Thursday 16^th March February 2022. Start 1.30 pm.

• Folkestone Nepalese Community Centre, CT19 4NN

If you are interested in this topic and/or looking to make links with other organisations and to find out what is going on locally, then please join this Community Networking event.

On the agenda are presentations from Kerry Smith CEO of Kent Coast Volunteering, and from Young Lives Foundation who have been awarded the Queens Award for Voluntary Service for their volunteer programme.  You will have an opportunity to ask questions, update the rest of the group on your projects and network.

Please RSVP by e-mail to Sarah Thomas at  sarah.thomas@redzebra.org.uk to book your place by midday on Thursday 10^th March.