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Fourteen Affordable Homes Became Two — Now KCC Says Don’t Decide Folkestone’s Stoneleigh House Plan Yet

September 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has been told not to determine plans for 14 flats on Tram Road until the developer provides something currently missing from the [...]

Five Reform Councils Pay 55p a Mile — So Why Are KCC Staff Still Getting 45p?

September 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is a Guest post by a Kent County Council employee I work for Kent County Council. My job requires me to travel across a wide operational area, around Kent and sometimes [...]

Kent NHS’s Escalating Autism and ADHD Crisis: £28.9m Spent, £20m Budgeted and Full Outcomes Still Unknown

September 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

There is a number buried in the latest NHS Kent and Medway Board ICB papers which ought to stop anyone skimming. Spending on autism and ADHD assessment and treatment rose [...]

Your Home Flooded? Look at the Drain — It Could Decide Whether FHDC or KCC Is Liable

September 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

Autumn is already here. Leaves are falling, the days are shortening and winter is approaching — which means the question of whether Folkestone & Hythe’s gullies and [...]

The Accidental English Football Manager: From a 12–0 Thrashing to Beating the League Leaders

September 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is a Guest Post Psst. Psst. Come closer. Closer. Now listen carefully, because what I’m about to tell you, good reader, is a secret. A secret so humiliating that, even [...]

Why Writers Should Ride Bicycles — Einstein, Potholes and the Fine Art of Procrastination

September 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

There is a theory, usually attributed to Einstein, that life is rather like riding a bicycle: if you want to keep your balance, you have to keep moving. This seems reasonable [...]

Grand Burstin Hotel Investigation: Britannia Hotels, Alexander Langsam and the Moravcik Trust

September 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

At 1.06am on Saturday 19 September 2026, Kent Fire and Rescue Service was called to the Grand Burstin Hotel in Folkestone. At the height of the incident, 26 fire engines and [...]

110 Homes, Flood Zone 3 and a Field the Local Plan Never Allocated: Inside New Romney’s Cockreed Lane Application

September 25, 2026 // 1 Comment

There’s nothing particularly dramatic about the field north of Cockreed Lane (pictured Orange below). It’s 4.71 hectares of agricultural land on the edge of New Romney: [...]

Only 4.1% of Folkestone & Hythe May Be Developable — Yet 2,267 Approved Homes Hadn’t Started and FHDC Is Looking for More Land

September 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe is looking for more land. It may have remarkably little left. Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own Housing Delivery Action Plan applies a [...]

Storm Goretti Was Lydd’s Warning — Nine Months Later, Its Community Resilience Plan Still Doesn’t Exist

September 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

As autumn closes in and another winter approaches, Lydd, like the rest of us towns and villages, is heading back into the season of strong winds, heavy rain, high seas and [...]

Grand Burstin Fire: How Hundreds Got Out Alive — and Why Folkestone’s Crisis Isn’t Over

September 24, 2026 // 2 Comments

Four days after flames and thick smoke poured from beneath Folkestone’s Grand Burstin Hotel, firefighters were back. At 8.36am on Wednesday, Kent Fire and Rescue Service [...]

Lower Leas Coastal Park Playground: How a £750,000 Budget Grew to More Than £1.38 Million

September 23, 2026 // 1 Comment

It was supposed to be a £750,000 playground. That was the budget Folkestone & Hythe District Council approved in May 2025 for the long-awaited replacement of the ageing [...]

Poor Beaches, Damaged Businesses, No Report: FHDC’s ‘Urgent’ Water Quality Work Goes Nowhere

September 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

On 1 April 2026, Folkestone & Hythe District Council agreed that investigating water quality across Romney Marsh and the East Stour should happen “as a matter of [...]

FHDC Housing Allocations Policy: ‘Fully in Line’ With the Law?

September 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

Tonight, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee will be asked to examine a new 78-page Housing Allocations Policy — the rulebook [...]

From Folkestone to South Korea: Five Schoolgirls, a Wildfire-Fighting Robot and Team GB’s Global Challenge

September 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Sometimes the most extraordinary stories are buried in the dullest-looking council documents. Halfway down a table of Green Grant awards approved by Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Sunningdale House Collapse: The Folkestone Land Is Sold, but £13m in Subsidiary Debts Remains

September 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

£378,000 bought the land at Tram Road. It did not buy an end to the Sunningdale story. Buried in the sixth administrators’ progress report for Sunningdale House [...]

Four Fingers, One Passport and a Prayer: Welcome to Dover’s Biometric Border

September 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

The British understand queues. We may have lost an empire,many Eurovision Song Contests and any realistic expectation of buying a railway sandwich without first discussing [...]

The F-Word Took Over the English Language: We Have Hundreds of Thousands of Words — So Why Keep Using the Same F*ing One?**

September 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

There is a bus. You know the one. Every town has one. At roughly the same time every weekday afternoon, its doors wheeze open and several dozen teenagers pile aboard carrying [...]

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Fourteen Affordable Homes Became Two — Now KCC Says Don’t Decide Folkestone’s Stoneleigh House Plan Yet

Five Reform Councils Pay 55p a Mile — So Why Are KCC Staff Still Getting 45p?

Kent NHS’s Escalating Autism and ADHD Crisis: £28.9m Spent, £20m Budgeted and Full Outcomes Still Unknown

Your Home Flooded? Look at the Drain — It Could Decide Whether FHDC or KCC Is Liable

The Accidental English Football Manager: From a 12–0 Thrashing to Beating the League Leaders

Why Writers Should Ride Bicycles — Einstein, Potholes and the Fine Art of Procrastination

110 Homes, Flood Zone 3 and a Field the Local Plan Never Allocated: Inside New Romney’s Cockreed Lane Application

Only 4.1% of Folkestone & Hythe May Be Developable — Yet 2,267 Approved Homes Hadn’t Started and FHDC Is Looking for More Land

Storm Goretti Was Lydd’s Warning — Nine Months Later, Its Community Resilience Plan Still Doesn’t Exist

Grand Burstin Fire: How Hundreds Got Out Alive — and Why Folkestone’s Crisis Isn’t Over

Lower Leas Coastal Park Playground: How a £750,000 Budget Grew to More Than £1.38 Million

Poor Beaches, Damaged Businesses, No Report: FHDC’s ‘Urgent’ Water Quality Work Goes Nowhere

From Folkestone to South Korea: Five Schoolgirls, a Wildfire-Fighting Robot and Team GB’s Global Challenge

Sunningdale House Collapse: The Folkestone Land Is Sold, but £13m in Subsidiary Debts Remains

Four Fingers, One Passport and a Prayer: Welcome to Dover’s Biometric Border

The F-Word Took Over the English Language: We Have Hundreds of Thousands of Words — So Why Keep Using the Same F*ing One?**

Kent Police, Race and Power: When Does Disparity Become Institutional Racism? — Part Three

The First Rung Is Missing: Kent’s Stark Divide in Jobs for Young People

Something Changed at Kent Police: Black Arrests Soared 79% in One Year — Part Two

Folca 2 Planning Application: Two GP Surgeries Drawn In, Commercial Space To Let — But NHS Sign-Off Is Still Pending

East Kent Health Divide: Four Coastal Constituencies Top Kent for Depression, COPD, Heart Disease and Stroke

If Intent Is a ‘Fuzzy Line’, How Can FHDC Call It Fraud? Cllr Tim Prater and the £1.266m Question