Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.
What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update
On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), is a simple piece of legislation. Pretty much anybody can make a request for information to a public authority under the FoIA [...]
Council accidentally release Covid Grant data
Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]
Council buy Ship Street Site for £400,000
Finally, Folkestone & Hythe District Council are the owners of the Ship Street site in Folkestone, where they want to build up to 85 homes. The invoice makes it clear the [...]
Kent County Council’s LED streetlights decimating moth numbers
“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a study has found. The study is the [...]
KCC aware of overcharging for Adult Social Care in January 2021
Back in June 2021, we ran a post titled: Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests In July the Kent [...]
Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.
No they didn’t see it. Yes they should have seen it, but it was for some inexplicable reason withheld from them. How do the Councillors who sit on the Task & Finish [...]
The children who no-one knows what to do with
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It” In 2019 Children in [...]
Part 2 – Kent Donors to local and national Labour Party
When it comes to the motives of donors there is a presumption of guilt. Base motives will be assumed by most, if not all. However, that said we happen to believe that [...]
Part 1 – Kent Donors to local & national Tory party
“A little bit of money goes a very long way.” Political donations have been at the heart of many a scandal, but does it matter that at local and national level, parties [...]
My name is still Graham, I am still a gamer.
This is a guest post Back in Dec, I wrote a guest piece about my hobby. Guess what it is. Go on, guess. Anyway, I’m told that some people not only read it, but liked [...]
Princes Parade Update: Council seeks Leisure Centre Operator for 10 year £23 million contract
On the 23 August, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, let it be known they are seeking to procure the services of a suitable, experienced operator in the leisure [...]
The Grand employees call out Michael Stainer!!
There are some very angry people who have lost all patience with Michael Stainer (below left), the twice-bankrupt ex-director of the Grand’s owners, and Robert Moss [...]
Sandbanks – New Romney: Are local Tories ‘in hock’ to developers via their donations?
Sandbanks planning application was successful at last night’s Planning Committee. However, it’s clear the closeness of the developer Leo Griggs with members of [...]
Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors
Back in 2013, Peter Read, who runs the Kent Independent Education Advice website, uncovered a financial scandal relating to academies. In his article published on 22 Sept [...]
Dangerous Pavements and Rampant Weeds blighting our beautiful district
“Appearance Matters” so said Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council at a full council meeting on the 19 Sept 2018. Since then he [...]
Cllr Rory Love’s application for Public Inquiry into stopping up road at Princes Parade accepted
Kent County Council Cllr Rory Love OBE (Con) (pictured) & Andy Weatherhead (Con) petition application for a public inquiry into the stopping up of the road at Princes [...]
Leo Griggs in discussions to sell flats at Sandbanks – New Romney – to Council
On the 15th Dec 2020, planning application 20/0690/FH – Sandbanks, Coast Road, Littlestone, New Romney, went before the planning committee. The applicant was Leo Griggs [...]
Princes Parade Update: Badger Sett & Ecological matters set to go before Planning on 24th August.
What with the Save Princes Parade Group continuing to keep up the pressure on Folkestone & Hythe District Council with a demonstration on Sunday the 15 August, we note [...]
Stodmarsh Update: Proposals to lift moratorium on development will be presented to government in the next few weeks
Many people are worried and concerned about development in our district and beyond, but is their concern justified? In 2017 the University of Sheffield released maps showing [...]
Who Bought The Grand? – The ‘Mystery Solved
After weeks of speculation, the ‘mystery’ of who bought the freehold of the Grand has been revealed. It was a company, the Grand (Folkestone) Residents Ltd set up by a [...]
On Street Parking contract loses £1.1 million in eight of the last ten years
On and off street parking in the Folkestone & Hythe District is always a bone of contention. In the last ten financial years (Apr 1 – March 31) Folkestone & [...]
2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.
Southern Water owned offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, discharged untreated diluted sewage into the sea of the Folkestone & Hythe District coastline for two thousand [...]
Revealed: Dead people invoiced for domiciliary care and KCC refuse to release time clipping data.
Evidence has emerged that dead people are being invoiced for domiciliary care they could not have received; and persons moved to care homes are still being invoiced by [...]