That Geological Disposal Facility and a forgotten workshop.
It’s strange, very strange. At the beginning of September 2018 we brought you the blog post about Folkestone & Hythe District Council who “looking to the [...]
September 2018
The Long Read: To divest or not to divest, that is the question
Amazon, Facebook, Taylor Wimpey, BAE Systems, Royal Dutch Shell and Rio Tinto are just some of the companies the £6 billion pound Kent Pension Fund (KPF), administered by [...]
The dead and Hythe Bowling Club
How is it possible dead people, four dead people at that, to remain on a title deed lodged at the Land Registry? It is not the first time we have discovered dead people still [...]
Queens House, Folkestone another offshore property
Queens House (pictured below) Folkestone is another property in our glorious district owned offshore. The owners, who we’ll come onto shortly, wish to turn the upper [...]
Smiths Medical – Boundary Rd Hythe
So the Smiths Medical Site, Boundary Rd Hythe; which many of you may know as Portex, sold for £2.1 million on the 15th August 2018 to Rewd Limited, according to the land [...]
Fraud? We’ll leave you decide that.
When information that our Council holds must be published freely, charging for it could be considered fraud. The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 makes it clear at [...]
The Long Read: Ownership of Pensand House & Malborough Court Hythe, a little clearer.
It’s complicated, but then it always is when you are looking at opaque offshore structures. The tenants in Pensand House (pictured below after revamp) & Malborough [...]
For the Others from Elsewhere
In the Folkestone and Hythe District Council Core Strategy Review 2018 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18), policy SS2 (page 58) makes clear that between 2018/19 to [...]
Princes Parade is NOT a done deal
Cambridge educated Cllr Russell Tillson, (pictured below) who is a Cllr on Dymchurch Parish Council, St Mary’s Bay Parish Council, a town Councillor on New Romney Town [...]
The Long Read: Part 2: Is the Absence of Evidence, Evidence of its Absence? A Grand Question About Red Herrings.
How many times can a story be embellished, elaborated and even altered before it ceases to be true, or as we now say, “fake news”? We ask this in regard to this headline [...]
Council ‘actively considers’ Geological Disposal Facility
On April 11th 2018 we brought you the blog post titled Here we go again: Another nuclear burial ground? On the 26th June 2018, Folkestone & Hythe District (F&HDC) [...]