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Spotted a pothole? Salt bin empty? Road sign missing or damaged? Report direct to Kent County Council Highways – fault reporting tool
www.kent.gov.uk/roads-and-travel/report-a-problem
• It’s the quickest and easiest way to tell Highways about issues
• See existing faults (raised by customers and highways staff) and highways assets such as streetlights, salt bins, bollards, trees and grass verges. Traffic Signals, roadside drains and structures will be added shortly.
• You are able to give us specifics about how bad a fault is and exactly where it is without having to get someone on the other end of a phone to understand it first
• You can upload photos or videos to show how bad things are and help us to prioritise repairs
• It saves the council £5 on every enquiry logged online as that’s what it costs KCC to manage a phone call and faults go directly to the relevant Highways team rather than having to be triaged first
• You can input your contact details for any updates to be provided and can track your enquiry through to resolution using the details that are automatically emailed to you.
• The reporting tool can be easily accessed from all kinds of devices (its optimized for smartphones and tablets) and can use local KCC libraries or gateways if you don’t have internet access at home
• It frees up our Contact Point staff to handle emergency and complex enquiries
Headlines from the last meeting are; (1) HPC to work with other groups to comment on the new planning application (that appeared at the last minute in the SDC Local Plan) for 300 homes between Hever and Hartfield road (2) Budget for 2019 – 2020 was agreed and will be a REDUCTION in household council tax (by 7.4%) – thanks to careful spending & successfully obtaining grants for the Four Elms playground. (3) the Council agreed to work with English Rural Housing Association to study further any LOCAL affordable housing needs.😃
Christmas rubbish and recycling collections
This year, Sevenoaks District Council’s staff will be working extra days over Christmas and New Year so you don’t miss out having your waste and recycling picked up.
Most collections will take place a day later than usual except the Christmas Eve collection, which takes place EARLIER on Saturday 22 December, and the Christmas Day collection, which takes place a day EARLIER on Monday 24 December.
| Your normal day | Your revised collection day |
| Monday 24 December | Saturday 22 December |
| Tuesday 25 December (Christmas Day) | Monday 24 December |
| Wednesday 26 December (Boxing Day) | Thursday 27 December |
| Thursday 27 December | Friday 28 December |
| Friday 28 December | Saturday 29 December |
| Monday 31 December | Normal collection day |
| Tuesday 1 January | Wednesday 2 January |
| Wednesday 2 January | Thursday 3 January |
| Thursday 3 January | Friday 4 January |
| Friday 4 January | Saturday 5 January |
| Monday 7 January | Normal collection service resumes |
Please put your sacks and bins out at 7am on your revised collection day.
To view your collection days online, visit www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/collectiondays
Free Christmas tree collections
After this year’s festivities have ended, Sevenoaks District Council will collect and recycle your real Christmas tree for free.
From Wednesday 2 January until Friday 1 February, the Council will collect any tree with a trunk of up to 90mm (3.5 inches) in diameter.
Simply leave your tree at the boundary of your property, and visible from the road, by 7am on the day the Garden Waste Collection Service visits your road.
If you’re not sure when the service is scheduled for your area, visit www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/collectiondays and search for your road.
All the trees collected are turned into environmentally friendly compost and for this reason, the Council cannot take trees which are decorated or in pots or stands.
If your tree is too big for this service, you can take it to one of Kent County Council’s (KCC) Household Waste Recycling Centres. Visit www.kent.gov.uk or call KCC on 03000 417373 for locations and opening times.
It’s District and Parish Council elections in May……maybe you would like to get involved in shaping the local community too?
More information on what is involved to follow…watch this space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttgEV890gl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6unGCLQXoA
Housing HEVER PARISH COUNCIL – Nov 2018
finance and planning applications update to be provided at the meeting.
Police Crime Commissioner to sell Edenbridge Police Station
Posted on Nov 6, 2018
Police Crime Commissioner to sell Edenbridge Police Station
‘PCC announces closure of Edenbridge Police Station. The announcement was included as one line in a press release entitled ‘Kent Police to move Deal front office’. Click here for press release. The additional information states that the police office in the High Street is to be sold as the building has not served as an operational police station for more than a decade. The town PCSOs who work at the office will, in future, be able to use the fire station in the High Street instead. Disposing of the site will save Kent Police around £22,500 a year in running costs. The money received from the sale of the building will be available in future to spend on policing.
Edenbridge Town Council is extremely disappointed and will be discussing what action to take at the Council meeting on Monday night (12 November). The Police Crime Commissioner Matthew Scott has been asked to come to Edenbridge to explain his reasons to the residents. Details of this meeting will be publicised once a reply has been received from him.
Hever Parish Council will be discussing this news at their next meeting on 21st November 7.30pm Four Elms Village Hall, all welcome.
Sevenoaks District Council’s annual Community Grants Scheme is now open for voluntary and community groups to apply. Successful applicants will receive their funding in April 2019.
https://www.sevenoaks.gov.uk/info/20026/community/43/community_funding
Other funding advice
Voluntary and community organisations can contact the following organisations for information and advice about funding:
- Kent County Council – Community Grants and Funding
- The Council for Voluntary Service – North West Kent (CVSNWK) – is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Membership is open to charitable, voluntary and community groups working in our area
- Imago Community – is a social action organisation delivering diverse services and supporting individuals, organisations and communities within Kent.
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