Our community scored a big and hopefully significant success in the last few days saving a beautiful, mature, tree from the chop. The magnificent cherry tree was earmarked for felling.
Category: News
Appropriate TDC traveller support required now
The situation for the travellers at Ramsgate Port is getting worse. It has been six weeks since Magistrates required Thanet District Council (TDC) to offer the travellers a site with ‘provisions’ to meet their immediate health needs. This offer was ordered to help to protect the fragile health of a number of people. You’ll understand […]
Manston plans just won’t fly
It’s time to put Manston to bed. It’s not going to fly and we need to be realistic, looking forward not backwards.
Walk-by vigil for Sarah Everard
Whilst the vigil in Clapham for Sarah Everard made headlines for all the wrong reasons, here in Ramsgate a smaller affair passed peacefully and safely.
Condemning the Kent County Council tax hike
Are you feeling the pinch? You’re not alone, 1000’s of Thanet tax payers are fighting to make ends meet and a tax rise is on the way.
Sewage in our seawater!
Our local beaches are valued public amenities. But are they safe? Yet again we have a report of a discharge of sewage into the sea. This time at Joss Bay.
A gate for Harbour Street
Pedestrianised between 9am and 5pm, but drivers ignore the signs. This Ramsgate street needs a gate – for safety’s sake.
Free school meals, children’s mental health services and covid births
These were the three topics discussed when I appeared live this morning on BBC1 for Politics South East.
We want better for Ramsgate Port
I’m really pleased that we have such great progress at our port. Improvements planned for Brett Aggrigates has been put on hold until an Environmental Impact Assessment has been carried out.
A lockdown in Kent and a Brexit gridlock?
This video is an edit of KMTV’s weekly political discussion programme transmitted on 16 October 2020, showing the contributions I made as Kent County Councillor for Ramsgate.