Homelessness: Credit where it is due.
One has to say well done, congratulations and thank you to those who have worked on Report Number: C/20/54 – draft Homelessness Prevention Strategy 2020/25. Adrian [...]
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Otterpool Park Update: Is It For Profit?
The fundamentals of using a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) to deliver Otterpool, is to make it tax efficient and allow the greatest return to to the council for building [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning department IS bad for your health.
Planning and Planning Decisions have long excited passions, so much so that one applicant who failed to get permission from Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
Digital Judas betrays us all
Mobile phones, long a tool of liberation, have now become a digital Judas, regardless who we are, or where we are from. Mobile phones have helped tens of thousands of [...]
The Long Read: 52-54 Guildhall Street and other tales of “Technical Issues”
Following our ‘more tales of the unexpected’ piece in September, which briefly mentioned the gap in the streetscape at 52-54 Guildhall Street owned by Brian James Parry [...]
Grant Fraud at The Grand?
As time runs out on Hallam Estates, owners of the Grand, we hear of yet another cause for anxiety for its director Robert Moss (below left) , and shadow director Michael [...]
Latest Covid-19 Map
Below is a map of the latest data for the number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 of population. Kent as you know will go into a Tier 3 level when the national lockdown ends on [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Draft Otterpool Park Business Plan raises more questions than it answers
The Draft – Otterpool Park Business Plan is a very badly assembled document. It is a low quality document for such a high-value project (£2.7 billon). The person [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council project £193 million profit for Otterpool
In a 54 page document, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set out the Draft – Otterpool Park Business Plan for discussion by the Overview & Scrutiny [...]
He’s a very naughty boy!
Updated 08:20 25/11/20 And who is a very naught boy… yep it’s Leo Livingston Griggs (pictured). The local Tory party donor has like others fallen foul of GDPR, [...]
Revealed: Elderly paid price of protecting NHS in Kent from Covid.
Elderly people were excluded from hospitals and intensive care during the height of the pandemic’s first wave as part of efforts to stop the NHS in Kent being overrun [...]
Fire Safety Issues Emerge at Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Updated @ 09:30am 23/11/20 In the last few days it has come to light that there are issues with the fire system at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital. On the 17th Nov a [...]
Hidden Regeneration Plan for Folkestone Town Centre Revealed
Updated @ 09:57am When Folkestone & Hythe District Council announced a fast-tracked consultation on the regeneration of Folkestone Town Centre following the announcement [...]
Part 1: What do we know about John Bunnett, the man responsible for the £2.7bn Otterpool Park development
John Bunnett is the man charged with delivering the £2.7bn project we know as Otterpool Park. This development is anticipated to deliver 8,500 homes, in the first phase with [...]
80 Sidney Street: How Can Dissolved Companies Pay Bills?
On the 1st May 2002, a company by the name of Haags Juristen College (Cyrpus) Ltd, began paying business rates for 80 Sidney Street to the then Shepway District Council (now [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Super fiscally attractive development designed for London overspill.
In 2010, Arena Leisure PLC who owned Folkestone Racecourse put forward the following document: The economic benefits of the redevelopment of Folkestone Racecourse The [...]
Inheritance, not work, will become the main route for home ownership in our district
In early January 2018, LUC published the Proposed Submission Sustainability Appraisal Report – Non-Technical Summary – for Folkestone & Hythe District Council. At [...]
Tontine Street: Further issues emerge with planning application
The first law of holes states: “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging“. Unfortunately, Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning department do not [...]
Armistice Day
This is a guest post One hundred and two years ago this week, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. There were joyous feelings among the troops who survived and sadness [...]
“Technical Issues” prevented Tontine Street Viability Assessment from being published says Council
In Feb 2019, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a new and revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) At Para 57 of the new and revised [...]
Encore via two offshore locations take over chasing debtors for Affinity Water
They are the UK’s biggest debt collector, Cabot Credit Management. Cabot buys debts and loans in arrears from banks, utilities, telecom companies and local authorities, and [...]
Michael Stainer and The Grand, Folkestone, reach the pages of Private Eye
Aviva, Michael Stainer, Hallam Estates, the freeholder of the Grand; and the Chairman of the Association of the Residents of the Grand, Peter Cobrin, make the pages of [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The Elephant in the Room
The Otterpool Park Financial Viability Assessment (VA) assumes the development to be 100% debt financed. So having taken the time to look at the VA, and also get the views of [...]
Council to consider selling Folkestone Indoor Bowls Site again
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are once again to consider selling Folkestone Indoor Bowls Club, on Cheriton Rd, Folkestone (situated between the Harvey Grammar and [...]
Stainer Raids the Piggy Bank!!!
Within 72 hours of the High Court throwing out Michael Stainer’s last-ditch attempt to stave off another bankruptcy threat, High Court Enforcement Officers from TV stars [...]