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Why not help Transition Hythe with their annual Spring Clean of the town? This Sat 6 April 10 am to 1pm. Meet at the Tin Church. Bags and litter pickers provided but you might want to bring your own gloves.

Confirmation that Shepway wants to develop Prince’s Parade to “Increase useable capital receipts” :

 

http://www.shepway.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s10931/ros%202013%20performance%20q3%20Appx%205%20spec%20proj%20Corp%20plan.pdf

 

This gives you a idea what it’s like when a new school floods – 8.23 mins into the programme although it’s all rather alarming if you’ve got time to watch the whole programme.

 

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-year-britain-flooded/4od

According to today’s Hythe Herald, Liz Carter head of Seabrook School said the school needs a new building but Prince’s Parade was not necessarily the right place.

In its recent newsletter sent to some local residents, Shepway quoted from a letter from the school and this quote seemed to support a school on Prince’s Parade but the head says this  has been taken out of context.

 

If you live or work in Hythe you will shortly be receiving a Neighbourhood Plan leaflet which is your chance to have your say in the future of the whole of Hythe. Make sure you fill it in and return it to yhe council by 28 February.

Both Prince’s Parade and the site of the new Hythe pool will be on the agenda for the meeting.

The officers recommend that the new pool is built on Prince’s Parade. Do come along to the meeting to support us.

Motion re the swimming pool:

 

That Shepway DC be requested to factor into the preparation of stages 2 & 3 of the Prince’s Parade brief the Neighbourhood Plan process and acknowledges the role which the Neighbourhood Plan should play in the future development of Prince’s Parade, to include the consideration of the option of the siting and locating of the new Hythe swimming pool.

 

Motion re Prince’s Parade:

 

1                    That the baseline analysis on Prince’s Parade be noted.

2                    That Shepway DC be requested to factor into the preparation of stages 2 & 3 of the Prince’s Parade brief the Neighbourhood Plan process and acknowledges the role which the Hythe Neighbourhood Plan should play in scoping the future development of Prince’s Parade.

3                    That KCC be advised that the motion passed at the Forum meeting held on 20^th August as submitted to Hythe Town Council is noted but that it is regarded to be premature pending the outcomes and proposals emanating from the Hythe Neighbourhood Plan.

Hythe Town Council will be holding an extraordinary meeting on Thursay 29th November to discuss the Core Strategy modifications and the Prince’s Parade reports. Please join us in the public gallery – 6.45.

The reports are now available on Shepway’s website:

http://www.shepway.gov.uk/content/view/201481/54/

Not surprisingly they have recommended that the new swimming pool is built on Prince’s Parade.

Please read them carefully and write and tell the members of Shepway cabinet what you think.

They will be meeting on 19^th December to discuss the reports so please write to them before then.

You can find out who is a cabinet member here:

http://www.shepway.gov.uk/moderngov/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1

We will need as many people as possible to come along and sit in the public gallery for that meeting so please put the date in your diary – 5pm.

Hythe Town Council Meeting

Hythe Town Council were supposed to be discussing Prince’s Parade on 1 November but it is not now on the agenda. We think it will now been on the agenda for 20 December. Here is the explanation from the Town Clerk:

 

No – it is not on the Agenda; there is no report as yet from SDC which is due for publication on 31^st October which can then be debated but not in time for dissemination for 1^st November.

The “conflict of interest issue”, as you refer to it, has not been resolved as regards separate legal views obtained from NALC (legal advisers to the National Association of Local Councils) and the Monitoring Officer at SDC and the Minutes of the Standing Orders Committee will be placed on the website tomorrow afternoon when those Minutes are circulated to Councillors.