De Haan Harbour charm offensive spins “positive response” to new heights.
“He says the modified design had a positive response from the local civic groups.” This is the last sentence in an article by The Independent about Sir Roger De [...]
November 2023
Hoarding at Princes Parade will be down by Easter 2024
It is the beginning of the end for the hoarding on Princes Parade. On Monday 20 Nov 2023, Folkestone & Hythe District Council placed a tender for the removal of the [...]
£750,000 of Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Before we move forward we must go back almost a year. If one casts one’s mind back to Report Number AuG/22/21; which went before the Audit & Governance Committee [...]
Council withdraw car parking charging proposals for Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe & New Romney High Streets.
Parking in our district is currently in the headlines. But something most of you didn’t know, and don’t know, is the Council is yet again in breach of the law and [...]
Council’s on street car parking financial modelling proposal for raising money to plug £18m deficit, doesn’t add up.
Is it a U-turn or even a partial U-turn on the parking fiasco engulfing the new Green led Folkestone & Hythe District Council. When we last reported on this issue, on the [...]
Is the pot calling the kettle black?
Pot and kettle spring to mind. Since May 2023, the Greens & Lib Dems have formed a minority coalition, while being supported by Labour. Prior to the Greens leading [...]
Council propose parking charges in Folkestone, Hythe & New Romney high streets to plug £18.5m deficit
And due to the Tory profligacy under former leader David Monk, the new Green led administration are proposing motorists pay nearly £400,000 per year, for parking in the town [...]
Temporary Staff costs to break £1m barrier for fourth time in six years
In a time when the Council need to save money, they will once again spend more than a million pounds on temporary staff. They will spend this amount for the fourth time in [...]
More contract irregularities even under new Green led administration
Who cares, who really cares? It is not as if we can say our Cllrs care. They are all too often reactive to situations, not proactive. Under the old regime we wrote frequently [...]
Tory profligacy means newly elected Council must find savings of £3m
‘History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce’ Karl Marx In Feb 2004 the then Tory led Shepway District Council voted for a 39% increase in its [...]
Failed businessman David Pownceby starts two new construction companies
Some people have more front than Selfridges, so the saying goes. And one such person is David Richard Pownceby (pictured). Having recently sent two companies into voluntary [...]