We counted them all out and We counted them all back
At last night’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, agenda item four was Report C/19/63 Proposed Disposal of Fernfield Lane Hawkinge. Fernfield Lane is owned by FHDC and [...]
January 2020
Seven Projects receive £146,000 of £3 million High Street Fund So Far
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £3 million High Streets Regeneration Fund was first announced in report C/19/21. It was established to support and help high [...]
Cllrs Under Criminal Investigation By Kent Police for Leaking Commercially Sensitive Information
Exclusive A handful of Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs are under criminal investigation by Kent Police; for leaking the commercially sensitive information about how [...]
Kent Fire & Rescue Service Damning Fire Notice Says Ross House Is Not Fire Compliant
Exclusive Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS) via their building safety fire risk inspection team, based at Folkestone Fire Station, have given Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Dunning Kruger Effect Alive And Well At Folkestone & Hythe District Council
If you’ve ever dealt with someone whose performance stinks, and they’re not only clueless that their performance stinks but they’re confident that their performance is [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Govt award £580,000 of funding for Otterpool Park
£580,000 worth of government cash has been allocated to deliver up to 10,000 homes at Otterpool Park, the Government have announced this morning. This fresh cash, announced [...]
Decision Pending Whether Or Not to Charge Cllr Clive Goddard for Electoral Violations
Exclusive On Oct 17th 2019, we informed you that Cllr Clive Goddard (pictured), Councillor for Walland and Dengemarsh since 2007 was interviewed under caution at Folkestone [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, Cozumel Estates [...]
Beach Huts: Financial Irregularities & Incompetence
Eighty new beach huts will be put on Marine Walk, Folkestone, between 4th May & 17th May 2020, according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council. The Council are to [...]
Biggins Wood: Hollow Promises
Four years on since the Council purchased the Biggins Wood site, not a single house has been built on the site. The Council have, we believe, bought a pig in a poke. On the [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council Make £26 million Offer To Buy Reuben Brothers Land
Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council Corporate Director for Place and Commercial – John Bunnett (pictured), was in Nov 2019 given the green light to begin [...]
Part 3: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities
In this final piece (for now) we look at at very specific part of the time line in the P & R potential £1.5 million pound fraud which came about as a result of failings [...]
Part 2: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking for a new statutory s151 Officer. According to the Candidate Breifing Pack on Penna Recruitment & the [...]