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Medway Trading Standards are urging residents to draw up a list of traders they might need in a home emergency situation well before disaster strikes.
Posing as a consumer with a home emergency, the Medway Council team are conducting weekly online checks of more than 400 web links of nine types of home emergency trades from blocked drains to locksmiths.
Their websites are checked to see if response times have been exaggerated and if traders claiming to be local are genuinely based in the Medway area.
But despite searching for local traders officers found that only around 16 per cent were actually based in the Medway area with some being as far away as North Wales.
Several traders are also subject to further investigation for falsely advertising they were members of trade associations that they do not belong to including gas and electrical safety schemes. More
Residents are invited to attend a meeting to discuss the emergency plans for the Isle of Grain.
The meeting will take place on Monday, 12 September at 7.30pm at The Village Hall, Chapel Road, Grain.
Representatives from the Health and Safety Executive, Medway Council, Kent Police, Kent Fire & Rescue Service and the Grain LNG Terminal will be on hand to answer resident’s questions.
Medway Council’s Portfolio Holder for Community Safety and Customer Contact Mike O’Brien said: “This meeting is an opportunity for the residents of Grain to have an open discussion with key personnel about the emergency plan for their village.
“I would encourage anyone who has an interest in this to attend the meeting and hear from the various agencies about how we can all work together.”