Mayor Peter Gane has taken a lead in working to get a long neglected park in Taylor Road, Cheriton, back into use. The park, to the rear of houses in Taylor Road, has had a recent history of dumping and is overgrown and neglected. Play equipment was removed some time ago after it was vandalised.
Graffiti on houses in Richmond Street, Cheriton has been removed after local Councillor Peter Carroll reported it the Shepway Council.
Residents of Spinney Hills and Stoneygate are being encouraged to attend their next Area Committee.
There are currently two by-elections pending in Kent. On 21st June there is a by-election in Meopham North Ward of Gravesham Borough Council, and on 12 July, a by-election for the Maidstone North East Division of Kent County Council, following the death of Lib Dem Councillor Margaret Featherstone.
Dundee LibDem councillors Helen Dick and Fraser Macpherson have today (Wednesday 30th May) backed a campaign by Shelter Scotland for newly elected councillors to show support towards the 2012 homelessness target.
In the past decade we have lost Post Office branches across Wolverhampton. Now the government have announced plans to close down 2500 more branches across the country. In other words, nearly one in five of the remaining Post Offices are to be closed. No lists of branches to be closed has yet been published, but no part of the country can escape these massive cutbacks.
