I suppose the current talks between these councils are one
of the main local news items this week, here is the link to the Kent Online
article http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/momentum-grows-for-merger-to-92513/
Thanet council politics and stances are also on the change
at the moment, particularly within the Thanet Labour group.
Last Monday I did a blog post which was mainly about the TDC
Thanet Labour group changing their stance on the Manston airport site to
supporting the site owners, who also own Discovery Park at Sandwich and are the
area’s largest employer, in their redevelopment into a mixed use light industry
and housing development.
Now the labour group has had a change of leadership Margate
councillor Iris Johnston, who has stepped down from the post due to ill health
to Broadstairs councillor Jenny Matterface.
How this relates to Manston is difficult to tell, obviously
in terms of health and life expectancy Broadstairs, being up wind from Manston
would be significantly affected were Manston to become an airfreight hub.
With Manston we seem to be generating three different paths
of support.
UKIP
Seem to favour some sort of airport there, based on finding
a new indemnity partner for TDC to mount a cpo.
Labour
Seem to be favouring the current owners redevelopment into a
mixed-use light industry and housing development.
Conservative
Seem to be favouring only redevelopment by American real
estate hedge fund managers RiverOak into an airfreight hub.
There is also The Democratic Independent Group at TDC, which
seem to be the political wing of Save Manston Airport and seem to broadly want
the same as the Conservative group do for Manston.
I suppose that as Manston has been the dominant factor at
TDC since the elections it’s very difficult to tell if there are any other differences
between the political parties at TDC.
Oh and finally the council are planning to replace the plaque commemorating the opening of Ramsgate's Westcliff has apparently gone missing and will be replaced by the council.
It seemed they didn't have a photo of it and it took me all of lunchtime to find one, if anyone has a better one please let me know.
cropped out it isn't much better
Oh and finally the council are planning to replace the plaque commemorating the opening of Ramsgate's Westcliff has apparently gone missing and will be replaced by the council.
It seemed they didn't have a photo of it and it took me all of lunchtime to find one, if anyone has a better one please let me know.
cropped out it isn't much better
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