Thank you Air Ambulance Kent Surrey & Sussex
They are amazing each and every one of them. The Air Ambulance Kent, Surry & Sussex (AAKSS) staff do an incredible job, so as this festive season fast approaches we wish [...]
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Otterpool Park update: Council spends £5.1 million on property in 2019
At the annual MIPIM property conference in Cannes in March of this year, the Department for International Trade (DIT) revealed the investment opportunity – Otterpool [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Significant Errors & Non Compliance with GDPR
Recently Folkestone & Hythe District Council compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) was audited by the East Kent Audit Partnership (EKAP) and [...]
Rewarding Failure with a Ten Grand Pay Rise.
Deborah Josephine Upton (pictured), Chief Executive of East Kent Housing (EKH) was awarded a nine thousand six hundred and eighteen (£9,618) pound pay rise in 2018/19. Since [...]
A Grand Crime Solved!
The unsolved mystery of who brutally assaulted Michael Stainer at the Grand in late January 2018 was solved in Canterbury Crown Court on Monday December 2nd. 36-year-old, Roy [...]
Ross House: A Tissue of Lies
Pursuant to section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 and the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, Ross House was not fire compliant when Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Thank you Kent Fire & Rescue Service
They are amazing each and everyone one of them. Each day, like other emergency service workers, they are there for all of us, our guardian angels. Thank you to every one of [...]
It’s a Gas at the Grand
How would you feel if you suddenly got a red emblazoned final notice for over £2,700 for gas from an energy company you’ve never heard of? That’s what happened to one [...]
Private Hospitals Receive £16.5 Million from East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
The number of East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) NHS patients having surgery in private hospitals between Apr 2015 to Nov 2019 is just over 36,000, [...]
The Grand Escape — or Stainer’s Surrender?
What links the two pictures below? In a word “debt” On the left is a picture of the Marshalsea, immortalised in Dickens’s “Little Dorrit”. It housed a variety of [...]
Assaults on SECamb Paramedics double in eight years
Assaults on any of the emergency service workers are unacceptable. That is so obvious as to be trite, but for the avoidance of doubt, that is our starting point. There has [...]
Ross House: Ollie comes good and EKH have 13 Job Vacancies to fill
Thank you. Thank you to Oliver Gordon Davis (pictured), the developer who refurbed Ross House and sold it to Folkestone & Hythe District Council for £1.8 million. Oliver [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The Council grants itself £100,000,000.
Updated 19:15 (21/11/19) It took 49 minutes for the request for the facility to draw down £100 million to be debated and finally agreed at last night’s full Council. [...]
Council’s Charity want half a million for 120 Beach Huts angers tenants
The lease for the Folkestone beach huts was made between the Council and Peter Kemp in 1997, when the Lib Dems ruled the universe known as Shepway District, now Folkestone [...]
Part 2: Plausible suspicion of wrongdoing
Folkestone & Hythe District Council on Wednesday 20th Nov are to vote on the recommendation that additional capital funding of one hundred million pounds (£100,000,000 [...]
Part 1: Plausible Suspicion of Wrongdoing
A growing number of sources within all four Councils who own East Kent Housing have informed us that all four Chief Executives of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & [...]
Crusade Building Services Ltd
Crusade Building Services Ltd was one of the companies who worked on the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone for Ollie Davis. Crusade is owned by Daniel Knight [...]
Otterpool Park Update. Council need £100 million to deliver project
Report Number C/19/23 which goes before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet on the 20th Nov 2019, makes the case that cabinet should recommend to Council that [...]
Oliver Gordon Davis, the man who sold Ross House to FHDC for £1.8 million.
The man who sold Ross House to the Council for £1.8 million goes by two names on Companies House website: Oliver Davis Oliver Gordon Davis Oliver (pictured) likes to be [...]
A Very Short Planning History of Ross House, Folkestone
The application Y17/0004/PA was for a change of use of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone CT20 3UJ into 16 flats (4 – 1 Beds and 12 – 2 Beds). The application [...]
We will remember them
For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in [...]
Ross House Is A “Tinderbox” and All Tenants Must Be Moved Immediately
All tenants living in Ross House should be moved out immediately as it is a “tinderbox”, according to a number of sources across mutliple organisations. This is [...]
Actions speak louder than words
The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party openly admit and state in their privacy policy they are a data controller in their own right: As they openly claim that they are a [...]
Ross House not fire compliant since purchase for £1.8 million in April 2018
Updated: 08:21 5th Nov 2019 In Feb 2018, two months prior to purchasing Ross House, Folkestone, East Kent Audit Partnership slammed fire safety at East Kent Housing managed [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Ten Cllrs Champion High Quality Outcomes for Reuben Brothers & Council
Ten district Cllrs from all parties met behind closed doors at the inaugural Otterpool Park Working Group (OPWG), on the 7th Oct 2019. They were there to discuss how they [...]