June 2021

Public Consultations in July for reserved matters application for further development on Folkestone Seafront

June 30, 2021 // 2 Comments

Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 FoIkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company [the Company] a company owned by Sir Roger Michael De Haan is bringing forward proposals for [...]

Criminal Charges against Michael & Doris Stainer revealed.

June 29, 2021 // 14 Comments

Exclusive We can now reveal the full extent of the criminal charges brought against Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) as presented in Westminster Magistrates Court [...]

Updated: – Folkestone Harbour Arm selling alcohol with no premises licence for 3 months

June 28, 2021 // 8 Comments

Updated @12.48 29/06/20 The licensed premises on Folkestone Harbour Arm are selling alcohol without a valid premises license, according to Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

Hythe Town Council want you to eat plants and ignore our armed forces

June 28, 2021 // 7 Comments

Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 On Thursday 24 June 2021, Hythe Town Council meet at the Town Hall at 6.20 pm to discuss the following Agenda item 16.Notice of Motion No 109 [...]

Council misleading residents about Cllrs allowances and expenses again.

June 27, 2021 // 1 Comment

On June the 12th we published the allowances of all Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs for the financial year 2020/21. The Council are omitting the fact, that three Cllrs [...]

The End of an Era @ The Grand, Folkestone

June 26, 2021 // 10 Comments

Determined as ever, and undeterred by the refusal of District Judge Luthfur Rahman in Canterbury County Court on June 17th, to halt the June 22nd auction of the Grand itself, [...]

Local mental health trust misses deadline to stop sending people far away from home, data shows

June 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership (KMPT) and the Kent & Medway CCG are still sending people more than 180 miles from their home for Mental Health [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors breach data protection law again

June 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

We’ll not beat about the bush and come straight to the point. Since the Waste Collection contract fiasco, many of you have contacted us regarding your Cllrs and their [...]

Council’s Corporate Retention Schedule is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah

June 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and none of this blah means anything, or if it does, it contradicts any other blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

Can you help save Dance Easy?

June 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

It’s was so important for our great grandmothers or grandmothers and our mums, who in the main collected the family ration book from there. As a building, it played [...]

More woes for Michael Stainer

June 19, 2021 // 12 Comments

Thanks to a local Folkestone resident posting on Facebook last Saturday, we learnt that legal action had been taken to prevent people who’d bought stuff at the Grand online [...]

Dr Susan Priest Chief Exec of FHDC fails to land top KCC job

June 17, 2021 // 3 Comments

Dr Susan Priest became Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council as of April 1st 2018, beating the s151 officer Tim Madden to the job. She later [...]

The Overview & Scrutiny Committee Inquisition into the £40 million waste contract cock up has begun

June 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

It was a miracle, whether divine or not is impossible to say. On Tuesday 15th June at 6.30pm at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, the number of apologies from Cllrs [...]

Save Princes Parade Campaign missed glaring opportunity to win Judicial Review

June 15, 2021 // 14 Comments

One has to wonder about the ability of some of those involved in the Save Princes Parade Campaign. It’s clear they missed an opportunity that was so glaringly obvious, [...]

More contractual woes at the Council

June 14, 2021 // 1 Comment

The stupidity of alleged professionals who receive generous salaries and work for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, never ceases to amaze us. Once again these alleged [...]

Cllrs claim more allowances in 2020/21 than 2019/20

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

In the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid hit, when all Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors couldn’t travel to conferences and claim subsistence and other [...]

Council issue Veolia with two week ultimatum to turn round £40 million waste contract fiasco

June 11, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 11/06/21 @ 20:05 Empty vessels, they say, make most noise and actions speak louder than words. On Wednesday 9th June Cllr Stuart Peall (Con), Cabinet Member [...]

Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests

June 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

The outsourcing revolution in social care started with the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, which established councils’ central functions as assessing need and funding and [...]

THREE LIONS – and a bunch of money grabbing donkeys

June 6, 2021 // 3 Comments

Picture the scene if you will – a sun soaked venue, bursting with families – full of hope and unbridled patriotic joy! Football’s coming home! Yes – the [...]

Only the little people pay tax

June 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

So it has begun. One can now register one’s interest in purchasing a flat at the the under construction Folkestone seafront development opposite the Leas lift, owned by [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco

June 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

It’s a £40 million pound fiasco. For the second time in less than six weeks Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been forced to apologise for the poor service [...]

FHDC not compliant with post-Schrems II data protection law?

June 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

Back in Dec 2020 we posted the following blog: The Council’s Facebook Page – some questions for them We asked Folkestone & Hythe District Council the questions and [...]

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