Severe winter weather has hit a number of Thanet District Council’s services, with Thanet’s Gateway Plus and the council offices closing by mid afternoon.
Waste and recycling collections have already been suspended today (Thursday 2 December). Thanet’s Gateway Plus, which was due to be open until 8pm tonight, as it is every Thursday night, will now be closing at 2pm instead. It is planned that it will re-open at 9am tomorrow morning (Friday 3 December) as usual.
The council offices in Margate and the telephone switchboard will also close early at 3pm, as opposed to 5.30pm and will re-open at 8.45am tomorrow morning.
Tonight’s planned Cabinet meeting, due to take place at 7pm, has been cancelled. It will now be re-arranged for next week (week commencing Monday 6 December), although no date has yet been set.
The area’s car parks remain open and council staff are attempting to visit as many as they can to grit the car parks. The council’s tractor unit has been out today, helping Kent County Council by clearing snow away from the Crematorium, the road by Margate fire station and the entrance roads around the QEQM Hospital.
Council teams using salt supplies from Kent County Council are out trying to keep pavements clear around doctors’ surgeries and chemists and in the main high streets in Birchington, Minnis Bay, Westgate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Northdown Road, Margate and Minster. They have also been working at Margate Cemetery and Crematorium.
Road gritting is the responsibility of Kent County Council. For full details of the gritting service being provided in Thanet, please visit Kent County Council’s website at www.kent.gov.uk or call 08458 247 247.
Although some of the area’s main public toilets have been open today, they are being closed early today from 2pm onwards.
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