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Richard Samuel’s Office,

Chief Executive's Department,

Thanet District Council,

PO Box 9,

Cecil Street,

Margate,

Kent,

CT9 1XZ

Dear Sir/Madam, by email and post 19th May, 2008

FOI Ramsgate Parish Council.

I have been informed by the Communities and Local Government department that Thanet District Council has been allowed to organise the process (as allowed under the2007 Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act, specifically, chapters 3 & 4.)

As you are aware from my previous email dated 7th May to the Department for Communities and Local Government, we in Ramsgate First, who organised the Petition that triggered the whole process, are concerned by the delays that have attended the implementation of Thanet District Council’s request to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in December 2006 that Ramsgate be granted its own parish council.

I have been previously advised by the department of Communities and Local Government that the delays are entirely of Thanet District Council’s making and that but for these delays there was every reason to suppose that elections to a Ramsgate Parish Council could have taken place in May 2008.

I am now requesting you, under the Freedom of Information Act, to advise Ramsgate First and the Press, within 21 days, of what you are proposing to recommend to the Full Council, and when, so as to fulfil, as soon as possible, the overwhelming democratic will of the electorate of the unparished areas of Ramsgate, as expressed in a referendum organised by Thanet District Council in November 2006, which was to have their own Parish/Town Council.

Yours faithfully,

Gerry O’Donnell

Chairman,

Ramsgate First

Subject: Re: Ramsgate town council: ending TDC Date: 19/05/2008 14:36:11 GMT Standard Time From: timgarbutt@yahoo.com

This sounds good.

I've requested public meetings at Albion Hosue

(Ramsgate's Town Hall) from 7pm this Friday and next

Friday to:

1. Vote off the current Charter Trustees and establish

a non-party political Interim Town Council: 6-10

members

2. Establish monhtly public meetings for the Town

Council at Albion House: last Tuesday of every month

3. Request the Interim Town Council to create a

working constitution and agenda to operate as the Town

Council until the elections

4. Establish formal elections to the Town Council

immediately

5. Establish a vote of no confidence in TDC and

request details of council salaries, expenses and

other costs for public scrutiny immediately and

ongoing

6. Request a vote of no confidence in the current

policies of overbuilding, China Gateway, Pleasurama

and excessive pollution by Infratil at Manston airport

7. Request direct involvement by KCC in providing

increased funding to Ramsgate to reserve decades of

mismanagement

In short to remove TDC - one of Britain's worst

councils - from any meaningful operation in Ramsgate

and create accountable and effective local democracy.

A Margate town council would remove the need for TDC

altogether with the town councils funded direct from

KCC.

Tim

Tim Garbutt

Tel: 0787 963 1550

Subject: FW: gazette letter for friday FYI Date: 21/05/2008 11:42:09 GMT Standard Time From: tim@integrityagency.eu

Reply To:
To:	MichaelChild@aol.com

If Ken Wills’ CGP plc/Jet Summit Aviation could pollute our water supply and Matt Clarke of Infratil already is (along with air and noise pollution) – what do we pay our council and MP’s for?

There’s a public meeting tonight and next Friday from 7pm at Albion House (Ramsgate’s Town Hall) to create the interim Ramsgate Town Council and begin the process of improving Ramsgate and ending the failed and undemocratic policies at TDC.

With appalling developments like China Gateway and Manston cargo airport, ever-increasing council tax, white elephant projects, bloated salaries and pointless bureaucracy TDC is Britain’s worst Council.

All welcome and the aim is to create an apolitical Interim Town Council that will meet every month from now on, with a working constitution and an agreed date of election.

Tired of pollution from Manston, poisoned drinking water and overbuilding in Ramsgate and general TDC incompetence?

Now’s the time to be rid of our failed Council and Councillors.

Tim Garbutt, Ramsgate

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Dear All, 23rd May 2008

Tim Garbutt has used the back of my email to propose setting up his own

'Ramsgate Town Council'. He wanted a public meeting and a committee formed

to 'sack the Charter Trustees, TDC etc etc.

I found Tim's proposals ludicrous and Ramsgate First rejects them utterly.

Before advising those of you who had received my previous email of this fact

I stopped off at Albion House on Friday 22nd May at 7.00pm to attend Tim's

proposed meeting so that I could inform him personally of the contents of

this email.

Though the meeting was advertised in the Gazette it appears that nobody at

Albion House was informed and consequently Tim and a couple of other people

were unable to gain admittance. I therefore informed him on the doorstep

that his proposals were unacceptable and that all he was doing was possibly

jeopardising the parish council. There are some churls in TDC who are

itching to scratch Ramsgate parish council and that Tim's intervention might

give them ammunition.

I have to say I like Tim Garbutt. There is no doubting his sincerity but his

waywardness, especially in his hatred of TDC, often leads him to express

thoughts that frighten off others. I think Tim thinks that I am now some

kind of Uncle Tom - betraying his own. He is wrong of course. Often is.

It is quite obvious that Tim's views are shared by a few, a very few: less

than a handful of people judging by the attendance on Friday and that in no

way is he representative of the overwhelming majority of the people of

Ramsgate.

I hope, therefore, not to hear some councillors suggest there is any linkage

between Mr Garbutt and Ramsgate First or the good people of Ramsgate in

their pursuit of their own parish/town council. There is none.

Gerry O'Donnell

Gerry's opinions are all true: however next meeting of

Ramsgate Town Council 7pm Friday.

In Ramsgate Town Hall or on the steps again.

18 months and no Town Council is too long.

TDC is a failed council.

Could Richard Samuel provide the keys?

Kindest regards.

Tim

From: ramsgatefirst@btconnect.com


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