Thanet Council’s (TDC)  Labour Leader  Rick Everitt  must not be allowed to participate in any  further discussion and decision making about  Brett Aggregates’ (BA) plans to expand its activities  at Ramsgate Port.   Why? Because Everitt  has, I believe,  shown himself to be biased in favour of BAs proposals, rendering  him  totally unfit to make a fair, balanced,  and impartial decision on what is an extremely  important  decision.   At the Cabinet meeting on 18 December 202

At  a meeting  of Thanet Council’s (TDC) cabinet on 18 December Labour councillors agreed  to  allow Brett Aggregates (BA)  to expand  its activities at Ramsgate Port including  the washing, crushing and screening of marine dredged aggregates and, so I am told,  possible manufacture of concrete blocks. To enable the company’s  expansion Labour councillors also agreed  that  TDC  will lease, or perhaps even sell,  the entire 32 acre port site to BA.  A decision is expected soo

Credit Nick Mitchell Last week  I published two articles about Brett Aggregates’ unlawful washing, crushing and grading of aggregates at Ramsgate Port and how Thanet Council (TDC) has allowed this law breaking to continue whilst it threatens the health of  Ramsgate’s residents.     If  this appalling scandal wasn’t bad enough I have now discovered that Brett’s law breaking is not confined to the unpermitted and  unlawful washing, crushing and grading of aggregate at  Ramsgate

In my previous post I revealed that  Thanet Council’s  Director of Environment, Mike Humber, has allowed Brett Aggregates via what is likely to be  an unlawful  “ voluntary agreement ”,  to continue to wash, crush and  grade aggregate at the Port of Ramsgate.   Brett’s do not have an environment permit to carry out this work and are therefore  in breach of section  12 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016  (EPR)   which says that:   12.—(1) A person must not, excep

Brassnecked Brett Aggregates has the effrontery  to brag  on its website that “ safety health and the environment are key considerations in all out activities ” and that it will “ liaise with stakeholders ” such as the communities living close to its facilities when it plans to make changes to its operation. But this doesn’t  seem to apply in Ramsgate!   Those of you who have passed by Ramsgate Port in recent weeks will  have noticed the massive piles of sand and aggregate bu