Lydd Town Council

Britain First protest at Lydd Town Hall; meeting cancelled over paperwork

October 29, 2025 // 1 Comment

Britain First supporters are planning to demonstrate outside Lydd Town Hall on Monday 3 November at 7.30pm. Kent Police have been notified; in an email seen by The Shepway [...]

Lydd Playground Swing Failures Caused by Vandalism, Says Safety Report

May 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

A series of mysterious swing failures at The Rype Play Area in Lydd has been traced to deliberate misuse rather than any manufacturing defect, according to a new report by a [...]

The fig leaf which is hiding a climate emergency in our district

May 10, 2021 // 2 Comments

We must plant more woodland as we have but a fig leaf left. Trees need to be looked after: you don’t just plant them, you grow them. And we need to plant and grow 4 [...]

The charmed lives of Cllr Ray Field & Cllr Clive Goddard

January 24, 2021 // 8 Comments

Have Cllr Ray Field (Ind – Harbour Ward) and Cllr Clive Goddard (Con – Wallend & Denge Marsh) broken the Council’s Code of Conduct by knowingly or [...]

Will our Town & Parish Councils Do Something About Their Statutory ‘Duty’ To Comply With Crime & Disorder Act 1998

October 27, 2019 // 3 Comments

In the bleak midwinter when frosty wind made moan and earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, one Cllr went above and beyond his duty to catch thieves stealing the [...]

The Closing down of Democracy – Part 2

February 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

In England only, the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 – Statutory Instrument 2014/2095 (hereafter the Regs) amended s1 of the 1960 Act with effect [...]

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