Update So Far.

Just to keep you all up to date- recent letter that has come in...

Community Cliff Clean Up - Result

We would like to thank all who turned out to collect the rubbish off the cliff area - looks so much better now.
Lots of rubbish bags filled with all manner of rubbish from a buckets to a small broken broom - amazing what you find.

CLIFF CLEAN-UP SUNDAY 15th March

WE  NEED  YOUR  HELP.

Sunday 15th March. @  11 am.

Please wear gloves and bring along a bin liner - As long as it's not raining...
You can even sing & whistle if you like... 
Nothing heavy at all - just picking up the loose rubbish to clean up the cliffs and the environment we live in.... Comment was passed by Natural England about the rubbish (see below comment on 8/3/15) so for the locals to clean the rubbish away would be a great help showing we do care.

REMEMBER :-

If you don't come and you leave it to everyone else...

Then Perhaps NO-ONE  WILL COME...

PS. It goes without saying that if you see any car / van dumping rubbish over the cliff take the registration number of the vehicle together with a picture (if you can) and pass the information over to Swale Council.
Regards Peter 

Our Road & Southern Water 2

We are watching...

Community Committee.

As a result of requiring to move quickly on issues a small group of people have agreed to give their time to help deal with the paperwork and problems which have started to arise. It is hoped that with such a committee local benefits or grants could be enjoyed by our local community...
If we had an action committee pushing forward this would help us all because some grants are available only if a committee heads the group...

Anyone is welcome to join the committee and help with additional tasks you just need to contact Malcolm Newell on 880042...

In the meantime the following have kindly stepped forward to offer their help. 

Malcolm Newell.                                        Chairman
Jenny Newell                                             Committee Member.
Carol Denieffe                                           Committee Member.
Jeanne Hursey                                           Secretary.
Sarah Mackness                                        Treasurer.
Peter Bruce                                                PR & Blog.

Update from Mr Andy Booth. Eastchurch Borough Councillor - Minster Cliffs.

The below correspondence is reproduced from Streetlife, published on the 7/3/15. By 
Mr Andy Booth

I've attended a number of meeting relating to the erosion issue and it is being taken seriously. SBC has met with residents and a local group that is progressing some alternative solutions that aren't primarily cost prohibitive (unlike those supported by the major agencies). I understand a trial piece of coastline is being established in order that a sample of the solution can be put into place and monitored. Part finance and possible installation could be supported via SBC which is in itself great news. As soon as I know more, I'll provide an update.....
Parish Councillor, Eastchurch Borough Councillor, Minster Cliffs.
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I did reply to to Mr Booth asking him for a post to be placed on our local blog site as most of our community look here ( Over 1000 site visits in a month!) but as its not been done I have reproduced it here together with a reply from Peter Macdonald - so locals people have a clearer picture what is going on. 

Things are moving...
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The below is the reply to Mr Andy Booth from Peter Macdonald.
Published Sun 8/3/15.

I have had a reply from Natural England,following my meeting with them. They are very aware of the problem having made a site visit with me, they don't consider our trial supported by Swale BC to be a problem, they now require a letter from Swale BC with formal proposals, I have this in hand. The Officer was rather disappointed with the fly tipping & I think we will make good friends with them if we clear this eyesore. Peter Mac
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The below correspondence is again reproduced from Streetlife, published on the 8/3/15 By Mr Andy Booth. 
Parish Councillor, Eastchurch Borough Councillor, Minster Cliffs. 

Thanks for the update Peter, this is really good news. If you want to arrange a site litter pick, this can be supported by SBC beach services..... Could be a way forward and tick some of those boxes !
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If any additional information is added on Streetlife  I will of course publish it here for our local community so no one will miss out. (Peter Bruce)

Southern Water Update News...

This is the latest news from Southern Water.

After all this time they now conclude there IS a crack / flaw in the large sewer pipe which runs down Third Avenue - which needs to be addressed.
Third Avenue will be dug up yet again to gain access to the large ceramic sewer pipe to felicitate it's repair.
At the moment we don't know when or where this will be done because we have not been given a clue where the break in the pipe is.
We have tried to get this information - to no avail - we will publish it here for you as soon as we know.
The situation regarding the planned road refurbishment from the mess Southern Water left us in last time has had to be put on hold.
Until we know where Southern Water will be digging the road up again there is no point adding additional problems...
The repair fund payment made by Southern Water is in the bank from the first mess they left us in and the contractor will start when we know what Southern Water intend to do...

Be assured we will monitor them very closely this time so the sub-contractors don't get away with leaving us with the mess they did before.

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