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Folca 1 Flats: New £100 Arcvelop Company Raises Questions Over Folkestone Landmark Sale

May 21, 2026 // 3 Comments

Folkestone’s former Debenhams has moved one step closer to becoming flats. But the planning decision is only half the story. The sharper question now is who, exactly, is [...]

Folkestone Folca 1 Flats Approved as Council-Owned Building Sale Questions Remain

May 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone’s former Debenhams has taken another step out of limbo. On Tuesday evening, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee approved [...]

Kent County Council Sits on £126m Developer Contributions as Schools and Roads Wait

May 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s latest available data shows more than £126m in developer contributions received or invoiced but not yet spent. Reform didn’t create the pile. But [...]

Taxpayer Toast and Lazy Parents: Linden Kemkaran’s Breakfast Club Problem

May 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council’s Reform UK leader promised to put “the people of Kent at the heart of everything we do”. Then came breakfast clubs, hungry children, and a warning [...]

Folkestone & Hythe GP Waiting Times: The Surgery Access Lottery

May 20, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s GP picture isn’t one simple story of good surgeries and bad surgeries. It’s a patchwork: some practices are turning round large numbers of [...]

Saga’s Enbrook Homes Plan Revives Folkestone Redevelopment Row

May 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Saga says homes on “under-utilised” land at Enbrook Park could help fund the repair of The Pavilion and keep the Sandgate headquarters sustainable. But this is not [...]

Dirty Air, Green Silence: Folkestone & Hythe’s PM2.5 Failure

May 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe is above the World Health Organization guideline for PM2.5. The council doesn’t directly monitor PM2.5. It has no Smoke Control Areas. It logged 129 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Free Parking Plan Could Cost £356k

May 18, 2026 // 2 Comments

A proposal to give drivers 20 minutes’ free parking in Folkestone & Hythe town centre car parks has obvious public appeal. But a council report says the idea could cost [...]

Lib Dems And Greens Break Martello Lakes Pool Promise

May 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Liberal Democrats said they’d “immediately start work” on a swimming pool at Martello Lakes. The Greens said the Conservatives could have built one there by now. [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Ward Budgets: £1m Local Grants, But £133k Unspent

May 17, 2026 // 1 Comment

Small grants. Local projects. Real money. Folkestone & Hythe’s ward-budget scheme is back for 2026/27 with a bigger pot — and community groups should be getting ready [...]

The Long Read: Cllr David Wimble’s Register of Interests: FHDC’s Address Trail

May 17, 2026 // 1 Comment

Cllr David Wimble, also recorded in company papers as William David Wimble, has a growing trail of company names, registered offices, trading addresses, council property [...]

Folkestone Folca 1 Flats Plan: Planning Law and Noise Risks

May 15, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folca 1 is heading towards retail and flats, not the medical centre once promised. But this isn’t a normal planning application. It’s a narrow Class MA prior approval [...]

David Wimble Helicopter Gift: The Alcaline Flights, KCC Register and Looker Adverts

May 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Cllr David Wimble’s KCC declaration says his September Alcaline Aviation helicopter lift was a gift. His Facebook trail points to three 2025 flights. Now The Looker, the [...]

FHDC Procurement Card Receipts: Why Restaurant Bills Still Need Explaining

May 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

FHDC’s officer subsistence figures allow £6.88 for breakfast, £9.50 for lunch, £3.76 for tea and £11.76 for supper — £31.90 for the whole day. Yet five [...]

Romney Marsh Flood Risk: Cllr Tony Hills Warns Sea Defences Must Be Strengthened

May 13, 2026 // 2 Comments

Cllr Tony Hills speaks to The Shepway Vox Team about sea defences, flooding, warming waters, sewage, planning and why Romney Marsh must not be treated as somewhere that can [...]

Farage Helicopter Row: How Reform’s David Wimble Put His Boss in the Spotlight

May 12, 2026 // 2 Comments

Nigel Farage now faces questions over undeclared helicopter travel linked to a Reform UK donor. The delicious Kent twist? The trail was opened up by Reform’s own Cllr David [...]

KCC Prayer Row: Reform Councillors Defy Legal Warning

May 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

No pothole has ever been filled by filming councillors saying the Lord’s Prayer. No care package has ever been arranged by singing the national anthem into a webcast. There [...]

KCC Adult Social Care: £62m Rise And Three Directors In One Year

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says adult social care is improving. The payments data says it’s getting dearer. The audit report says the savings governance was weak. And since Reform [...]

KCC Spending: The £75m Rise, The £158m Mystery, And The Adult Social Care Reality

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s published payments over £250 rose by £75m in a year. Adult social care climbed by £62m. Children’s services appeared to fall by £97m. And more [...]

KCC Asset Sales: £84m Raised, But Full Property Ledger Remains Hidden

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says it has raised more than £84m from surplus property disposals over five years. The trouble is not the headline number. The trouble is what the public [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC’s Leas Cliff Hall Contract: The £13.2m ATG Payment Trail Behind a £10m Deal

May 11, 2026 // 2 Comments

The council’s own papers show a 20-year RPI-linked deal, no profit-share, falling ticket sales, patchy monitoring — and a public contract register that still tells [...]

Folkestone Silver Spring Site: Channex and the BVI Trail Behind Aldi, Burger King and Costa

May 10, 2026 // 1 Comment

Aldi, Burger King and Costa are heading for the old Silver Spring site. But behind the shiny signs and paper cups sits a corporate trail running from Folkestone to Purley, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: £24m Paid Out, Sewage Works Approved, Delivery Questions Remain

May 8, 2026 // 1 Comment

Before a single Otterpool Park home has been built, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own payment data shows nearly £24m in Otterpool equity, share-capital and [...]

FHDC Council Chairs and Allowances: Who Got Which Seat

May 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

The music stopped at Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s annual general meeting on Wednesday 6 May 2026. Cllr Paul Thomas got the big civic chair, most committee [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Bill Hits £1.52m

May 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published payments for temporary accommodation reached £1,520,865.70 in 2025/26 under just two descriptions: Bed & Breakfast [...]

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