Kent continues to lead the way in housing Ukrainian Refugees.
The people of Kent are wonderful, especially those who continue to take Ukrainian refugees. Data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Home [...]
April 2022
Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees
Sandra’s daughter Georgina, born in 2010, began crawling late, around the time that other children were learning to walk. Pre-school staff warned that her speech was [...]
Matt Dunkley KCC Director for Children, Young People and Education to leave KCC
Updated @ 20:17 Matt Dunkley CBE Kent County Council Corporate Director for Children, Young People and Education, will be leaving KCC in the near future. Mr Dunkley was the [...]
Will the 7 Parish Councils who received £130,000 of CIL money allow residents to have input into how it’s spent?
The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008, as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver [...]
Medical ‘Golden Hour’ broken with waiting times for ambulances at record high
So Mark Quinn wants to build a new £170m hospital extension shell in Canterbury in return for 2,000 homes adjacent the site. If all goes to plan, Canterbury will become the [...]
Quinn’s donations to Tories climbs to a £150,000
Updated @19:45 The controversial developer Mark Quinn (below left) has via his company Quinn Estates Limited given £7,200 of ‘consultancy services’ to Tory MP [...]
Council’s use of potentially harmful Glyphosate falls by 80%
In Feb 2017, The Shepway Vox Team ran the story: ”Probably Carcinogenic to Humans.” The story was about the use of Glyphosate by Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
Start Me Up
Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]
Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility for free
Developer Quinn Estates have been offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility on land owned by Kent County Council & Canterbury City [...]
Trial date set for Cllr Russell Tillson
Following a brief hearing in Maidstone Crown Court on April 19th, Councillor Russell Tillson (72) has been sent for trial on June 19th 2023.Cllr Tillson had previously [...]
Fear is the path to the Dark Side
“In many ways Folkestonians have more to fear from those migrating in from London than those arriving, desperate, on inflatable dinghies from overseas,” according [...]
Cllrs tax free travel and annual financial uplift on their allowances
Hidden away in Part 9/82 of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s current Constitution, it states: The allowances shall be automatically adjusted, annually, by [...]
Kent leads the way housing Ukrainian Refugees
As of the 6th April, the wonderful people of Kent had more visas issued to house Ukrainian Refugees, than any other county, according to data released by the Department for [...]
£35.7m paid in ‘exit payments’ to KCC staff in last seven years.
Exit payments from Councils have long been controversial and many have been paid out to “public sector fat cats“, according to a House of Commons Briefing paper. [...]
Who are you?
Updated 10.04.22 @16:20 Faceless and nameless they are. We don’t know what position they held at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but we do know that in [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine
The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]
Cllr Monk has lost the financial plot regarding Otterpool Park
On the 24th Nov 2021, Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, rose in the chamber to answer a question put by Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab). She [...]
Princess Royal called in to planning as ‘evidence of neglect’ is confirmed by Council
‘evidence of neglect‘, objections from The Victorian Society, KCC Archaeology, CPRE Historic Buildings Committee, and Save Britain’s Heritage as well as a [...]
Have your say: Folkestone Place Plan 6th April
What does a Town Centre for the future look like? Ask your mum, dad, grandkids, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and you’ll have a lot of commonalities and lot [...]
Otterpool Park notice of planning application submitted and will be decided by Xmas 22
Updated: 01.4.22 @21:10 According to a public and legal notice in the Evening Standard, a notice of a planning application for Otterpool Park (Y19/0257/FH) has been [...]