Images Emerge of Cllr Clive Goddard Working on RVH Site owned by Leo Griggs.
Updated 18:12 – 18/09/20 Images have emerged of Cllr Clive Goddard – the Chairman of the Planning Committee at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, working on [...]
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FHDC pass Local Plan and Central Govt propose 1043 homes per year for our district.
So it’s done. After five years and three public consultations, Folkestone & Hythe District Council passed its Places and Policies Local Plan (Local Plan) at an [...]
More tales of the unexpected from the Royal Victoria Site owned by Leo Griggs
On the 8th Sept, 2020, Cllr Patrica Rolfe (Con) informed the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, that all four directors of Oportunitas Ltd – a company wholly owned by [...]
The lady says no – and she’s not for turning…
Imagine how Amanda Blanc, appointed Aviva’s Chief Executive in July this year, would feel if she woke up to find that her insurer had refused to insure her home, and that [...]
East Kent Councils fail to recoup £1.5 million from P & R
Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. Senior officers of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet councils have discovered they can bluster [...]
Part 2: KCC Pension Fund is divesting from fossil fuels but still investing in countries who do not uphold LGBT rights
The KCC Pension Fund total investments were valued at £6.6bn on 31 December 2019. Just three months later, on the 31st March 2020, the pension value had shrunk to £5.7 [...]
Council fail to declare they were to buy 37 properties on Royal Victoria Hospital site owned by Leo Griggs
Updated 11.35am 9/09/2020 So it’s just as we said way back on Nov 28th 2018: We also understand from well placed council sources, the Council’s company Oportunitas [...]
Stainer’s Surrender?
Has Michael Stainer given up the ghost? Have those tired old fingertips clinging to the wreckage of the Grand finally lost their grip? Friday’s brief hearing before [...]
KCC “Profiteering” from caring for migrant children under 18
On the 1st April 2019, Kent County Council (KCC) were caring for 254 under 18 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC). By March 31st 2020, KCC were caring from 450 UASC, [...]
Persistent Evaders of PCNs cost council tens of thousands
Whether you parked on double yellow lines for two minutes while you popped into the shop, or unwittingly left your car on private land, receiving a parking fine is sure to [...]
Kingston Homes want to develop The land on the north side of Station Rd, Hythe, Kent
Kingston Homes have made public a document seeking consultation with the public (As of Aug 2020) for the development of the land on the north side of Station Road, Hythe, [...]
Part 3: Leaked Spreadsheet Shows Many Outstanding Fire Works Cannot Have Been Completed
This is a guest post written by East Kent Housing staff and Council Officers from all four councils who own EKH We have provided a spreadsheet of all the outstanding actions [...]
Stainer the false prophet
Like the biblical prophet some think he resembles, Michael Stainer has frequently prophesised the imminent collapse of part of the southern elevation of the Grand. As [...]
Latest ONS Map Shows Covid-19 Deaths by Postcode
Below is the latest interactive map produced by ONS for the number of deaths involving COVID-19. The Office for National Statistics figures are based on all deaths where [...]
Part 2: The cover up has already begun with the Fire Compliance and Fire Risk Assessments at EKH
This is a guest post written by East Kent Housing staff and Council Officers from all four councils who own EKH In May 2018, Dame Judith Hackitt presented her report [...]
Part 1: Leaked Fire Safety Report Shows EKH Tenants & Leaseholders Lives Are At Significant Risk
The number of outstanding actions arising from Fire Risk Assessments which need remedial action to be compliant with current legislation across East Kent Housing managed [...]
A year on and still no council policy or plan to deal with the declared climate & ecological emergency
A working group is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. On Wednesday 24th July 2019, Folkestone & Hythe District Council declared a Climate & Ecological [...]
Part 1: Are Kent County Council Finances in Safe Hands?
Zena Cooke (pictured) is probably a woman you have never heard of. There is no need for you to have ever heard of her. She is Kent County Council’s (KCC) Director of [...]
Princes Parade: £8,000 Discrepancy in Council legal costs and will Oaklands Surgery get that £151,200?
Regardless of one’s personal position on Princes Parade, one thing should be perfectly clear and that’s the cost of the legal fees spent by Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Council’s On Street Parking Contract lost £600,000 in five of the last seven financial years
Here’s a shocker – for five out of the last seven financial years, On Street parking has NOT made money for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). In [...]
Kent and Medway NHS Trust continue to send mental health patients hundreds of miles from home for hospital beds
Between the 1st April 2017 and the 4th August 2020, the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) have sent two hundred and twenty eight (228) mental [...]
23% or Nearly One In Four Households claiming Council Tax Reduction
Nearly one in four households are claiming Council Tax Reduction in the Folkestone & Hythe District, as of June 2020. Council Tax Reduction provides help for people on [...]
Stainer sent packing (again) in Tribunal humiliation
The latest full determination in a six-year saga of defeats in Tribunal and High Court hearings, was published on 11th August. The owners of the Grand, Hallam Estates, along [...]
Same Story Different Transport
The issue of refugees crossing the Channel and arriving on English soil is NOT new. Back in May 2002, our public face worked as a reporter for the Folkestone Herald and [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes
£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]