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 latest chapter of bi-annual beach management work helping to protect more than 3,000 homes and businesses from flooding starts next week.
Contractors will begin recycling and regrading shingle along the five-mile stretch of coast between Fisherman’s Beach in Hythe through Sandgate to Folkestone Harbour on Monday 4 November – a process that takes up to eight weeks to complete.
This approach is currently the most cost-effective way of protecting the district and offers far superior protection than the old timber groynes.
This important task, which will see 142,000 tonnes of shingle moved on this occasion, is carried out twice a year and helps shield the sea wall.
It’s all about further reducing the possibility of flooding and coastal erosion and, ultimately, protecting our residents.
Shingle is moved from east to west to allow the longshore drift to naturally spread it to aid the prevention of overtopping during storm events.
Any disruption will be kept to a minimum, and no work will be carried out between Christmas and the new year.
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 27th October: A fast downhill spiral towards the end of the year.
The clocks have gone back and now it begins to really feel that we are on a fast downhill spiral towards the end of the year and all that it brings. The weather has continued as it has been for the past few weeks with lots of warm sunshine but less rain than we have had of late.
On Wednesday the overwintering onions got planted. We sowed the seeds some weeks ago and they currently look just like young spring onions, but hopefully by next summer they will be fully grown brown onions. Another tray of spring onions were planted as well as six more chive plants.
The brassicas were checked for caterpillars again, as last week they were smothered in them courtesy of the cabbage white butterflies, however it seems we did a good job of clearing them as only four were found this week. Just as we were thinking we were winning the battle with the wildlife for once, we got a reminder that nature will always come out on top when it was noticed that the Chinese cabbages were absolutely smothered in sawfly caterpillars and being rapidly shredded. We decided to cut our losses and scrap the lot because they were just too bad to try and rescue. In the past we did manage to pick off the sawflies and rescue the crop but time is not now on our side.
The weeding and bed preparation continues – with the weather being mild, the old potato beds where a few small potatoes got left behind, started to sprout again and random potato plants are popping up. It seems no matter how hard you try not to leave any behind, some always do and appear in the most awkward of places in the middle of another crop.
The shorter days and some cooler weather has started to turn the leaves to autumn colours and drop – so begins the task of collecting them all up and composting them, with of course as many sycamore seeds as we can find to save ourselves the trouble of having to pull up the growing seedlings next spring in their thousands!
The growth was cleared around the pond, and some pond weed removed as the water has been well and truly overtaken by lots of new growth. Some of the pond weed will find new homes in our gardeners’ ponds or to Pent Farm, to the pond there.
On Saturday we worked together to make a human chain, bringing trugs full of wood chips from the lower wall at the bottom of the hill, up to the garden and down on the ground to replenish the paths. A few more garden sessions and with any luck we should get all the paths done and the garden looking much smarter.
What’s next?
Start sowing the broad beans
Continue laying the wood chip paths
Hoe under the hedge outside the garden
Tidy the hedge again as it is still growing!
Sawfly larvae on the Chinese cabbagesRandom potato plants popping upAutumn leaves are falling
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 20th October: Collecting food and storing it for the long cold winter months ahead.
The weather was very much like it was last week with periods of beautiful warm sunshine and lots and lots of the wet stuff in-between. It was even the same on Saturday as it was last week in that we had to cancel the morning garden session because of the rain, but there was wall to wall sunshine in the afternoon.
There was a spectacular Hunter’s moon on Thursday, so called because it is ‘the time of year when historically hunters began collecting food and storing it for the long cold winter months ahead’.
On our Wednesday morning garden session we got cracking with clearing more of the strawberry plants trying to take over a vast area, and lots of mint which also needed cutting back. It revealed our little lemon tree hugging the wall and bearing lots of beautiful pink and white flowers. Having picked a lemon from the tree a few weeks ago we are keeping our fingers crossed that it might grow one or two more next year.
The wall has many flowers growing in front of it, and down the other end there is currently a spectacular show of nasturtiums with lush green leaves and numerous flowers from pale yellow through to deep orange. We sometimes forget that the nasturtium is very edible and makes a great addition to a salad. Talking of salads, we planted one of our favourite winter salad leaves – Claytonia, or winter purslane. It is well worth growing as it is extremely hardy, not much liked by slugs and snails, and keeps on producing edible leaves and flowers well into late spring.
One of our gardeners confessed after the session that the claytonia had not been ‘watered in’ which helps new plants to get established quickly, however we need not have worried as by Wednesday evening the heavens opened along with a great show of thunder and lightning – it was fabulous to watch, and helped our new plants settle in at the same time.
What’s next?
Plant some overwintering onions near the banana tree
Keep checking for more caterpillars on the brassicas
Continue to lay woodchip paths and put down compost
Clear the area behind the pond
Flowers on our lemon treeFlowering nasturtiums looking lushClaytonia for planting out
The agenda of Sandgate’s Parish Council Finance Committee meeting. We will hold the meeting on 21st October 2024 at 6:30pm. It will be held in Sandgate Library.
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@sandgatepc.org.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.
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.
The agenda for the Sandgate Parish Council Planning Committee meeting, to held on Tuesday 21st October 2024 at 7.00pm or at the fall of the Finance Committee, whichever is later.
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.
Report a Highways Issue
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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