Kent MPs make highest ever expenses claims during Covid – 2020/21
In 2020/21 all 17 Kent MPs between them billed for expenses such as office costs, staffing, accommodation, and travel, just over £3 million pounds. This does not include [...]
Princes Parade: Stopping Up Order Documents released by Planning Inspector & Secretary of State
So the campaign to prevent the stopping up order of the road which will run behind the land at Princes Parade, led by KCC Cllrs Rory Love OBE and Andy Weatherhead was [...]
Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre
Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Site had visit from No 10’s Cabinet Secretary
There have been further developments at Otterpool Park where the council wish to build up to 10,000 homes at a cost of £2.9bn, making a conservative profit of £193m. [...]
Council’s housing target failure gives hope for environment before the progress of concrete continues
Folkestone & Hythe District Council [previously Shepway] has failed to meet its annual housing requirement target for ten of the past fourteen years. This a 71% failure [...]
The planning loophole used so frequently by Sir Roger’s companies looks set to be closed
Gareth Bacon MP for Orpington, sought leave to bring in a Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning [...]
Whistleblowers claim up to 25% of KCC Social Workers are alcoholics.
This is a guest post We are three senior social workers who work for Kent County Council. We have in excess of fifty years experience within our profession. We have come to [...]
Can you trust this man?
As you know Cllr David Monk – Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council – has got a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist and Director of K B [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent
It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]
Cllr David Monk has a new occupation
He’s been a double glazing salesman, a Cllr since 1995; and now he has a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist, since July 2021. Yes, Cllr David Drury Monk, [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Costs rise to £66 million and not a single house built.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it [...]
NHS patients waiting 9-10 hours at Kent Hospitals in back of ambulances SECamb reveals
Patients conveyed to Kent Hospitals by South East Coast Ambulance Services [SECamb] have been waiting 9-10 hours in the back of ambulances before they could be seen in [...]
Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC
On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]
Educashan, Educashan, Educashan
Something half sensible came out of last week’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, who meet on the 9 Nov. The Chairwoman of the committee, Cllr Michelle Keutinius (Lab) [...]
Russian Money? Mark Quinn & Ashford International Studios
It took just under three and a half hours for Ashford Borough Council to decide on the planning application for Ashford International Studios (pictured), in April 2020, which [...]
Wimble & Field’s new party already breaking data protection law
Updated 12:10 07/11/21 David Wimble & Ray Field have set up a new party in the district. The Laurel & Hardy of local politics have chosen to call their party [...]
Rural & Affluent Areas of Folkestone & Hythe District see rise in Child Poverty
The release of the data by the DWP & HMRC for the number of children living in relative & absolute low income families (child poverty), have for the year end (31 [...]
Should councillors have to tell us if they are Masons?
Updated 31/10/21 @ 06:00am It’s often seen as a shadowy world of secret handshakes, favours for friends and strange initiation ceremonies – but should we be [...]
Known tax avoider Jacob Rees Mogg MP to speak at local Tory dinner tonight.
Tonight at the Hythe Imperial, Hythe (Kent), the Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Association members will sit down to have their annual dinner. The guest speaker at the [...]
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity in Folkestone & Hythe District Council.
One does not have to do anything to make Folkestone & Hythe District Council look stupid or incompetent, they are quite capable of doing that all on their own. For those [...]
Nearly One in Four Council Meetings held behind closed doors
Since the local elections of May 2019, which ushered in 13 Tory Cllrs, 6 Labour Cllrs (one later became an Independent) 6 Green Cllrs and 2 Lib Dem Cllrs, 2 UKIP Cllrs [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Lib Dems propose new location for playground, but fail to explain costs of remediation.
The Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats are now proposing the disused railyway line (pictured); which runs from Warren Rd, Folkestone (alongside Tram Rd) to Rocksalt as [...]
Biggins Wood receives £1.15 Grant funding but questions remain
Dr Susan Priest said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was “contaminated“. Andy Jarrett said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was [...]
Part 1 Don’t FCUK with Ailish Erskine
Don’t fcuk with Ailish Erskine or Mrs Jane Clark (Owner of Saltwood Castle). Both of these women have been bent but never broken, which has only served to make them [...]
Problems abound for Meritum domiciliary care company
Since we last last wrote about overcharging by a domiciliary care company – Meritum Intergrated Care LLP, there have been some further developments which customers [...]