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Here are your council's office opening hours and Christmas recycling and waste collections.

Here are your council's office opening hours and Christmas recycling and waste collections.

Shepway Council is urging people to take part in its official consultation over parking proposals following a poor turn-out at the recent parish polls.

The Labour Party in Shepway are celebrating today after 96.5% of participants voted ‘no’ to the introduction of any new parking charges in the local parish polls.

Three parish polls about Shepway District Council's proposed parking strategy are to be held in Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe tomorrow (Thursday 8 December)

Dear Editor,

Re: Folkestone, Hythe and New Romney parking referendum called for December

This is absolute scandal!

The Labour Party in Shepway has issued an open letter to Councillor Robert Bliss, asking him to axe the Council’s £75,000 consultation procedure and instead respond to the result of the forthcoming referenda on December 8th.

Folkestone Labour Party has called for referendums to be held across Shepway on December 8th 2011 in response to Shepway District Council’s proposed changes to parking prices,

Shepway free parking campaigner Toby Philpott who chaired a recent protest meeting over the parking proposals, is challenging the Shepway Chairman over details of an internal Council presentation.

Dear Editor,

Re: Proposed Shepway parking charge is a 'huge worry' for part-time single mum

The only benefit I can see will be the new 'Owner' of the rights to chase and inflict a target driven approach to the issuing of PCN (parking fines).