The Whitstable Society

Whitstable Maritime is proud to present:

2017 Harbour Day
Saturday 5th August
Whitstable Harbour
10.30 am to 4.30 pm

On Harbour Day you can visit over 30 stalls celebrating Whitstable's connections with the sea: past, present and future.
Boat-building, lifeboats, model boats, sea trips, raft racing, a model railway, creative art workshops, coastal gardening, children’s drama, oral history, coastal walks, bird-watching, live music, and a barge/smack race offer a full day of activities and entertainment for all of the family.
While there are food, drink and craft stalls for all tastes.

Do not miss the barge/smack race starting at mid-day

Our fundraising efforts together with the Oval Preservation Community Group continue apace for the Oval Judicial Review scheduled for 13th to 15th December.

The next significant event is another Grand Quiz, raffle, auction and supper on Friday 25th November, as detailed below.
This follows the very successful Quiz on 9th September which sold-out fast! We hope that many of you will choose to support this (and we recommend you secure tickets early!).

The City Council had tried to stop the Oval Campaign's application for a Judicial Review of their sale of the site, asserting that we were out of time and that all our five Ground were too weak to be worth considering.
At a 2 hour hearing in June, the Hon. Mr Justice Supperstone heard both sides and decided that the Oval Campaign were not late, due to the council’s withholding of documents, and that all of our 5 Grounds were worth airing at a full hearing, which is now listed for hearing in December.

If you are interested in the arguments here is the official transcript of the June 8th hearing. There are two distinct parts. The first explains the delay and the second examines why the Grounds are valid.

More details of the campaign can be found on the Oval Chalet Campaign Facebook Page

Please help us defend legal Open Spaces from being given over for development without proper public consultation. The Oval case is turning out to be of national importance in ensuring that the legal safeguards that exist for Open Spaces cannot be circumvented, and the Open Spaces Society has contributed to our fighting fund.

See below for the grounds submitted for the oral hearing on 8th June when our request for permission for the claim to be granted to proceed to the substantive hearing was heard

We have received the following update from Canterbury City council

Whether or not you will be attending one of the public consultations (the next is on Friday the 27th May) you may find the following presentation of interest - click on the following image for the full document ...

A new date has been added to this consultation and will be held at Whitstable Castle on Friday 27 May, 4-6pm and 7-9pm.

Please note that despite being advertised as an exhibition, this is a presentation, so members wishing to attend should aim to get to the Castle at either 4.00 pm or 7.00 pm.

We will be discussing this at our next meeting on May 18th. The consultation opens online with a hard copy being made available at the Harbour on the 13th May.

Hopefully many of you were able to attend the Public Meeting earlier this week - links to more details in the poster below below in case you weren't - NB closing date for objections is Friday 18th March.