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Our drop in session so that you can catch up on the latest news and find out what the next steps are will be on Sat 25 June 2-5pm in Seabrook Church Hall. And a picnic has been arrange for Jul 9 4pm meet at the children’s play area.

Join us for a guided nature walk around Princes Parade on Sunday 22nd May at 10am. Meet at the white tram shelter ( about one third of the way along Princes Parade starting from the Seabrook end).

82% of those taking part in the poll voted for leave it alone.” This is very similar to the proportion of people who opted for no development in the consultation for in the  Places & Policies consultation (part of Shepway’s Local Plan process) but will David Monk acknowledge that?

The Martello column in today’s Herald queries why we use an apostrophe in Prince’s Parade. The reason we do so is that the promenade was opened by the Prince of Wales on 15th October 1881.

The public will be excluded from next week’s cabinet meeting too – more info

The public are now excluded from the Princes Parade item at Wednesday’s Resource Scrutiny Committee, We are trying to find out why but that means there is no point anyone going along. Disgraceful.

There is an item called Princes Parade update on the agenda for the Resource Scrutiny Committee meeting at Shepway next Wed 6th April at 7pm. It’s not clear whether this is just an update from when we asked the committee to take another look at Nickoll’s Quarry or whether this is the next step in Shepway’s attempt to develop the site but either way please do your best to join us in the public gallery.

On 28 May 2014 David Monk said “that when the indicative costs were £11m I wasn’t pleased and if the costs had stayed at that we wouldn’t be where we are today. We wouldn’t be going forward…….because we aren’t stupid.” (See 1.10.47 on this video).

However, Shepway are once again planning on putting the leisure centre on PP. Their own report C/15/38 (cabinet meeting 4 Nov 2015) states that the cost of the recreation centre will be £8.65m plus £2.15m for remediation of contaminated land plus significant costs to mitigate the harm to the Royal Military Canal. So that’s going to more than £11m not counting other possible costs arising from risks not yet identified.