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 hording on Princes Parade.
The cost to remove the hoarding is unknown, but the tender call has gone out.
Once the hoarding is removed, then a low level fence will be placed around the site in 2024. Then the Council will consult with residents of the district for their views on the future of Princes Parade.
Princes Parade has been on and off the agenda since 2006/07. It has cost the local ratepayers a penny or two. For example according to the Council’s payment to suppliers data, the Princes Parade Stopping Up Inquiry cost £344,771. BAM Construction who were the principal contractors to build out the Leisure Centre have received £2.3m, add in Judicial Review costs and other contract costs and the capital outlay for this doomed project has been in excess of £10m.
In the immortal words of Ian Dury – What a waste
The Shepway Vox Team
Dissent is NOT a Crime
Was this not meant to be another Sunningdale disaster anyway
Next week, I am going to Brighton Magistrates Court, and I am going to begin a private criminal prosecution of this Council in fraud and Misconduct in Public Office
And still waiting to find out the debit figure for the – surely doomed – Otterpool Park fiasco.
This project was ever a non-starter. The residents didn’t want it, Councillors were luke-warm. Only Monk the merciless rode his chariot over any objections.
It is right that all envisaged proposals are quashed and that the space is returned to what it ever was, a wild green space.
Congratulations to all who opposed this. Is the public purse owed a refund for all the money wasted?. Answers on a miniscule postcard.
@Matthew
Yes, public purse needs reimbursing. Whole thing was fraud, planning permission was fraudulent on flood risk grounds, and I told Monk that in September 2021. I have the letter and Brighton Magistrates will see it
Chris, I read your posting regarding your private criminal prosecution, I wish you luck at Brighton Magistrates, I trust you’re including the FHDC Planning Committee Chairman Cllr Goddard.
So we take down one fence, and then put up a smaller one – another waste of money