Folkestone & Hythe District Council

Brand, Walliams and the Culture of Silence: Why the Jeremy Chambers Sexual Harassment Allegations Still Matter

November 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

One senior council officer walked away with £43,000. Women who accused him of exposing himself to them at work were left with nothing. And the council? It refused to confirm [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: A Formula One Finance System, a Broken Reply Button and Accounts the Public Can’t Fully Inspect

November 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has a new finance system, a £650,000 project budget and a legal duty to let the public inspect its accounts. Yet 90 days after the [...]

Oportunitas Ltd: £14 Million in Property, Four Councillors and Twelve Years of Broken Promises?

November 9, 2026 // 0 Comments

In 2014, Folkestone & Hythe Council expected its new property company to deliver a 7.3% investment return. Twelve years later, Oportunitas owns £14.35 million in [...]

The Landlord Gets a Head Start. The Tenant Gets a Queue: Folkestone & Hythe Council’s Damp and Mould Waiting List

November 2, 2026 // 1 Comment

Tenants complain about damp, mould, electrical safety and questionable certificates. Folkestone & Hythe District Council puts them on a waiting list while landlords can [...]

One in Seven Before Six: Folkestone & Hythe’s Childhood Obesity and Food Poverty Divide

October 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

A child arriving at primary school in Folkestone & Hythe is more likely to be living with obesity than one living in any other Kent district. Meanwhile, a household [...]

Folkestone’s Folca 2: £13.2m to Bring Debenhams Back to Life — But Who’s Picking Up the Bill?

October 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone’s former Debenhams has acquired another eye-watering price tag. On 19 October, Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) advertised a £9 million contract [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council’s Halloween Nightmare: The Night Councillors Were Forced to Tell the Truth

October 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

The following is a work of satire. All events and dialogue are fictional, although the councillors named are real. Folkestone & Hythe District Council held an [...]

Folkestone & Hythe’s Temporary Accommodation Scandal: Can the Council’s Figures Be Trusted?

October 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

On 8 May 2025, Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) closed two Freedom of Information requests about temporary accommodation — the rooms, flats and houses it uses [...]

Hythe Imperial’s 291-Home Plan: FHDC Owns the Royal Military Canal — Will It Speak Up?

October 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council owns the historic canal beside the proposed Imperial Gardens development. Its planning and property departments are headed by [...]

Cllr David Wimble: A Stranger to the Truth? The False Claims Behind His Immigration Speech

October 8, 2026 // 4 Comments

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on.” At Folkestone & Hythe District Council full council last night, Cllr David Wimble delivered [...]

Folkestone & Hythe’s Cost-Cutting Elephant Takes Off — Literally

October 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

A work of satire, inspired and adapted from Sławomir Mrożek’s short story “The Elephant”. The events described below are entirely fictional. It had been six months [...]

Your Home Flooded? Look at the Drain — It Could Decide Whether FHDC or KCC Is Liable

September 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

Autumn is already here. Leaves are falling, the days are shortening and winter is approaching — which means the question of whether Folkestone & Hythe’s gullies and [...]

Only 4.1% of Folkestone & Hythe May Be Developable — Yet 2,267 Approved Homes Hadn’t Started and FHDC Is Looking for More Land

September 25, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe is looking for more land. It may have remarkably little left. Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own Housing Delivery Action Plan applies a [...]

Lower Leas Coastal Park Playground: How a £750,000 Budget Grew to More Than £1.38 Million

September 23, 2026 // 1 Comment

It was supposed to be a £750,000 playground. That was the budget Folkestone & Hythe District Council approved in May 2025 for the long-awaited replacement of the ageing [...]

Poor Beaches, Damaged Businesses, No Report: FHDC’s ‘Urgent’ Water Quality Work Goes Nowhere

September 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

On 1 April 2026, Folkestone & Hythe District Council agreed that investigating water quality across Romney Marsh and the East Stour should happen “as a matter of [...]

FHDC Housing Allocations Policy: ‘Fully in Line’ With the Law?

September 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

Tonight, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee will be asked to examine a new 78-page Housing Allocations Policy — the rulebook [...]

£9m Later, the Wait Is Still a Mystery: Folkestone & Hythe’s Disabled Facilities Grants

September 17, 2026 // 1 Comment

In 2018/19, Folkestone & Hythe District Council said there was “currently no waiting list” for its Disabled Facilities Grant scheme. Today, the council tells [...]

If Intent Is a ‘Fuzzy Line’, How Can FHDC Call It Fraud? Cllr Tim Prater and the £1.266m Question

September 14, 2026 // 1 Comment

When our public face asked Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet Member for Finance and Governance how much of £1.266 million was actually fraud, Cllr Tim [...]

Otterpool Park: Westenhanger Fails Both New NPPF ‘Well-Connected Station’ Tests

September 10, 2026 // 2 Comments

The Government has just made building homes around well-connected railway stations substantially easier. There’s just one problem: Hillhurst Farm sits right next door to [...]

Otterpool Park Infrastructure Costs: £374m Inflation-Adjusted Benchmark for 8,500 Homes

September 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

There’s a number buried in another major Kent housing battle which deserves much more attention in Folkestone & Hythe. £36,500 per home. That’s what a viability [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Local Plan 2045: Can 15,600 New Homes Be Supported by Water, GPs and Infrastructure?

September 9, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe may need to plan for around 15,600 new homes by 2045, but the challenge isn’t simply finding enough land. The district must also prove it can deliver [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Local Plan 2045 Consultation: 15,600 Homes and More Development Sites Likely

September 8, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe may need to plan for around 15,600 new homes between now and 2045, according to documents published as the district council begins preparing its new [...]

Folkestone & Hythe: 155 Children in Temporary Accommodation as Costs Double and Out-of-Area Placements Soar

September 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

The number of children living in temporary accommodation arranged by Folkestone & Hythe District Council has more than doubled in two years. Now, as the Government [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Complaints Surge 88% as 60 Residents Demand a Second Answer

August 28, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council makes residents a pretty clear promise on its website: “We aim to resolve any complaint at stage one.” Yet in 2025/26, 60 [...]

Hythe Imperial Planning Objection Guide: What Residents Need to Know About GSE’s £120m, 291-Home Plan

August 28, 2026 // 2 Comments

This is a Guest Post After reading The Shepway Vox Team’s examination of planning application 26/1290/FH, I spent a fair bit of time going through the application papers [...]

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