Deal Town Council Tuesday 26th October: A resolution initiated by Green Party cllr Christine Oliver passed with cross-party support. “Deal Town Council condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision by the MP for Dover & Deal to vote in favour of allowing water companies to discharge raw sewage into the sea & water courses […]
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That’s the headline on the front cover of the latest edition of British Archaeology, published by the national Council for British Archaeology. […]
Text of letter published in local press 29-July 2021 (before a weekend of downpours caused roads to flood in our own towns) We see flood catastrophes half day’s coach / train trip from East Kent, places visited by many of us for Christmas markets over the years; almost 200 humans and many animals drowned. Floods […]
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We, the people of East Kent, need to speak up for our land and homes before Wed 17th March, the deadline of the vital Reg 18 consultation on Dover District’s new Local Plan. Our responses will be seen by the national planning inspectorate, so let’s provide lots! The 3 things that people keep asking DDC […]
Regarding Agenda item 14 – DDC Climate Change Strategy. From : Green Party nominee on DDC Climate Change Working Group, Sarah Gleave / Mike Eddy job share. In 2021, especially during the sickness and impoverishment of the pandemic, action to deal with the Climate and Ecological crisis is not just a desirable add-on, to trim […]
Press Statement The 7 Conservative cabinet members of DDC have announced they are pushing through their version of a Climate Change strategy at their Cabinet meeting on 11th January 2021, with 2 press releases on 8th and 12th January 2021. Using our co-opted seat on the cross-party DDC climate change working group, Dover and Deal […]
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Why? Because we’re now 3rd party in Dover District Because our councillors initiated 3 Climate Emergency Declarations @ town/parish level in 2019 Kent’s culture is deferential. Some say, who are you to challenge the establishment? Our party refounded in February 2015, then gained 10 seats in May 2019 parish and town elections. And we missed […]
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Is there is a lack of political will at Dover District Council (DDC) cabinet to stand up to aggressive volume developers? We have the evidence of how, elsewhere in England, developers are made to listen to more democratic councils. There are fine words in the early DDC 2018 documents on regeneration and the new Local […]
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We were delighted to support the cross-party Youth Strike 4 climate demonstration in Deal on 24 May 2019. 108 towns across UK also had demos on the same day. Zero carbon 2030! System change not climate change! […]
Theme 1 of our Action Plan 2019 Dover District Council needs to take steps to ensure our district is carbon neutral by 2030. On current trends, world temperatures will overshoot the global target of restricting temperate rises to 2 degrees centigrade, which will already have extremely serious effects. Not enough is being done. Kent County […]
