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Sandgate Library is currently closed due to COVID, in common with every other Library on Kent.

Although it was suggested libraries may start to reopen this week, there is no current guidance that they should do so in England,.

We aim to reopen as soon as we are advised it is safe to do so, in line with other Kent Libraries. All current borrowings have been extended to the end of June, and will be further extended if libraries remain closed.

Even on re-opening, it is expected there will be restrictions in place to ensure user and staff safety, and in particular group meetings / sessions will not restart for the foreseeable future.

In the meantime library users can access online books and resources at  https://www.kent.gov.uk/leisure-and-community/libraries

We will never forget those that have died to protect this country, at home or overseas, in the past or recent weeks. You are all heroes.

On the 75th anniversary of VE Day, for those from Sandgate that gave their lives in the Second World War that we may live free, we give special thanks.

George Allcock
Hubert Huckstep
Tom Brayam-Bone
Stanley Lister
Raymond Brown
Robert Lynch
Richard Channer
Albert Moore
Charles Clifton
Henry Richardson
Reginald Easton
William Sampson
Thomas Facey
John Sender
Herbert Holley
George Woods

Never forgotten.

It will be necessary to close Sandgate High Street, Sandgate from 20th April 2020 for up to 12 days.

The road will be closed outside 142 Sandgate High Street.

The alternative route is via Military Road, North Road, West Road and Hospital Hill.

*UPDATE* Due to the nature of the works taking place the road will be closed all day and NOT reopen at night.

This is to enable sewer repairs in the carriageway to be carried out by Southern Water.

Due to the Coronavirus, and lockdown and social distancing rules, the Government have passed emergency legislation and guidance to allow Councils to meet online instead of in person through until May 2021.

In common with many other councils, Sandgate Parish Council will be meeting online for the immediate future and until the Government advice is that is is prudent to again meet “in person” and for the public to be present.

We will be publishing agendas (5 working days in advance of meetings) and minutes within 10 working days after a meeting on the Parish Council website at http://sandgatepc.org.uk/ (as we have done for some years).

Questions on any item of the agenda, or public questions for Full Council Meetings should be sent to the Parish Clerk (by email to clerk@sandgatepc.org.uk) in advance of the meeting and will be read out by the clerk at the meeting and responded to appropriately. Questions should include the questioners full name and address.

The meetings themselves will take place on Zoom (using recommended security such as meeting passwords, use of waiting rooms etc) with the meeting broadcast live as video at the time of the meeting itself on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pg/sandgatepc/ Comments made on the Facebook video during the meeting will not be monitored and are not a way of feeding back to the Council.

Please do bear with us while we learn this new way of working – it’s new for all of us!

Our first online meeting will be our Full Council Meeting on Tuesday 21st April at 5pm.