Development

Leas Pavilion Folkestone: £4m Hole, Receivers And Vanishing Buyers Leave Rescue On The Brink

July 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

The latest Friends Of The Leas Pavilion meeting points to a Leas Pavilion scheme that isn’t easing back to life, but wobbling badly: the historic fabric is said to be safe, [...]

Otterpool Park Design Brief To Be Submitted With Outline Planning Application Update

July 2, 2026 // 0 Comments

Otterpool Park where FHDC got a council resolution to grant outline permission in April 2023. Three years later, the actual permission still hasn’t been issued. Now the [...]

Oliver Davis, Dace Environmental and the £6.68m Creditor Question

June 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent’s new green housing fix is being sold with drone footage, widened ditches and the promise of thousands of homes. But behind the clean-river sales pitch sits a very [...]

Southern Water Drought Plan Exposes Kent’s Water Supply Crisis

June 22, 2026 // 1 Comment

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden Southern Water is telling us to think about drought before we have no choice. Not just hosepipe bans. [...]

Saga’s Enbrook Homes Plan Revives Folkestone Redevelopment Row

May 19, 2026 // 1 Comment

Saga says homes on “under-utilised” land at Enbrook Park could help fund the repair of The Pavilion and keep the Sandgate headquarters sustainable. But this is not [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Homes England’s Westenhanger Land Move and the Pack Field Silence

April 10, 2026 // 2 Comments

Updated: 06:50 11/04/26 At Lympne Parish Council Annual Meeting on 8 April, FHDC leader Jim Martin said Homes England is in the process of acquiring land within walking [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Phase 1B Emerges as Likely Start for Early Homes

March 31, 2026 // 0 Comments

The latest Homes England announcement is dressed in the usual language of collaboration, momentum and delivery. But the most important Otterpool development is not in the [...]

Sandbanks Littlestone Development: Ownership, Planning and Company Questions

March 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

We have written about Sandbanks before. Back in 2021 the questions were about planning, ownership and who was really driving the scheme. Five years on, the former care home [...]

Leas Pavilion Folkestone: the £20m Claim the Filed Accounts Do Not Support

March 17, 2026 // 3 Comments

For years, Folkestone was sold a dream in glossy renders: restored heritage, luxury flats and a grand old pavilion brought back to life above the Channel. What the town has [...]

Leas Pavilion Folkestone: Off-Plan Flat Buyers Left Exposed as Receivers Sell the Freehold

March 3, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folkestone’s stalled Leas Pavilion scheme has spent long enough as a visual punchline: hoardings, silence, and two concrete cores that look less like “luxury living” [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre’s £2.4m Grant Question: Why Not Use Surplus Land to Help Fund the Rebuild?

January 24, 2026 // 3 Comments

If there’s one thing Britain still does reliably, it’s asking the public to pay twice: once through taxes, and again through politely worded “one-off” grant requests [...]

Folkestone Ship Street Gasworks Housing Plan: “Health Impact” Tick-Box, Toxic Land Risks, and Equality Act Red Flags in a Deprived Coastal Ward

January 12, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s proposal to transform the derelict former gasworks at Ship Street into 135 homes (planning ref: 25/1316/FH) is now out for public [...]

Draft NPPF 2025 Explained: What’s Changed Since 2024 and What It Means for Planning Decisions, Housing Numbers and the Green Belt

December 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

Yes — we know you love it. We know you wanted it under the Christmas tree. And the Government, in the spirit of festive excess, has delivered: a brand-new Draft National [...]

KCC Leaders Meet Sir Roger De Haan in Folkestone: What’s on the Public Record?

December 10, 2025 // 1 Comment

A set of photographs posted online by Cllr John Baker (Reform UK, Kent County Council) shows a small delegation meeting in Folkestone with Sir Roger De Haan, followed by what [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Developer Contributions: CIL & Section 106 Millions, Missing Data, and Infrastructure Funding Statement Compliance Failures (2020–2025)

December 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) is meant to be the public’s annual “receipt and report card” for developer [...]

Mark Quinn: Quinn Estates’ Power, Philanthropy — and the Quinn Investments Accounts Behind Kent’s Biggest Developments

November 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

For most people in east Kent, the name “Mark Quinn” means big housing schemes, glossy CGI images and often fierce planning rows. Less visible is the quiet holding company [...]

Hythe Imperial Hotel, GSE Group and the Healey–Bowles Empire: Inside Kent’s Construction, Property and Truckstop Network. A Shepway Vox Investigation

November 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

When you walk along Hythe seafront, the Hythe Imperial Hotel & Spa looms over the promenade – a refurbished Victorian pile now marketed as a luxury coastal retreat. [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Millions Budgeted While Outline Permission Still Unissued; Homes England Recognises ‘Market Failure’ as 31 Dec 2026 Long-Stop Nears

November 26, 2025 // 3 Comments

By any normal measure, a council that “resolved to grant” outline planning permission, in April 2023, for a new settlement of this scale (8,500 homes) would be sprinting [...]

From Kent Fields to Cayman Waterfront: The Offshore Life of Pentland Homes Boss James Nettlam Tory

November 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

When residents in Folkestone, Hawkinge or Ashford argue with Pentland Homes over traffic, contamination or yet another field turning into “executive homes”, the man who [...]

Otterpool Park Exposed: How Folkestone & Hythe’s 10,000-Home ‘Garden Town’ Is Spending Millions Without Planning Permission

November 18, 2025 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is gearing up for yet another intense round of work on Otterpool Park – still without an actual planning permission in place, more [...]

Belgian Developer Hendrik Danneels: Criminal Tax-Fraud and Money-Laundering Case Shadowing Mylecke NV and the Insolvent Leas Pavilion Development in Folkestone

November 14, 2025 // 0 Comments

For years, Belgian property developer Hendrik Danneels (pictured) has preferred to operate in the shadows. Belgian business press portrays him as a low-profile coastal [...]

Leas Pavilion Developer Insolvency: How Offshore Owner Mylecke NV Left Folkestone with Eyesore Towers and Broken Promises

November 14, 2025 // 2 Comments

For 18 months the two stark concrete towers on Folkestone’s Leas have stood frozen – an unfinished gateway to a luxury apartment scheme that never arrived. In early [...]

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