Hythe Foxwood Homes Plan Approved With No Affordable Housing
Folkestone & Hythe councillors have approved Ureco’s Foxwood scheme for up to 150 homes on the former school site above Seabrook Road, Hythe. The number of affordable [...]
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FHDC’s Renters’ Rights Policy Trips Over the Law
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is being asked to approve its new private-sector housing civil penalties policy on 24 June — 54 days after key Renters’ Rights Act [...]
Update: Otterpool Park Next Steps: Hillhurst Farm Land Questions Loom Over Public Exhibition
The next Otterpool Park exhibition isn’t just another afternoon of glossy boards, polite smiles and “your views matter” stationery. It’s the point where the proposed [...]
West Wood’s Lost Oasis: The Holiday Village That Won Permission and Still Failed
A private leisure village in a public Kent forest won the planning argument, survived the High Court and still never got built. The reason West Wood survived wasn’t simple. [...]
New Romney Homes Plan Tests Kent’s Water-Stressed Future
A proposed 110-home scheme on farmland at New Romney has landed in the middle of Kent’s bigger water argument: how can we keep building in one of the most water-stressed [...]
FHDC Procurement Card Receipts: Dinner, Drinks and the Missing Audit Trail
The council’s FOI response has answered some questions about procurement-card restaurant spending. It has also given us a gastro-pub filed as transport, a missing lunch [...]
Folkestone Tennis Courts: Historic Davis Cup Town Faces Public Access Gap
As Queen’s gets under way and Wimbledon looms, Folkestone doesn’t lack tennis history. It doesn’t even lack tennis courts. What it lacks is the simple thing that [...]
Foxwood’s £86.7m Homes Plan Leaves Hythe With No Affordable Homes
A former public school site in Hythe is heading back to Folkestone & Hythe’s Planning Committee. The homes remain. The affordable housing doesn’t. And behind the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Long-Term Sickness Absence Surges
Long-term sickness absence rose by two-thirds at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, with mental health-related conditions accounting for 42% of all working time lost. [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Local Plan Puts District’s Future on Rails
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has fired the starting gun on a new Local Plan that could shape the district until 2045. No sites have been chosen yet. No final [...]
FHDC Renters’ Rights Policy Wasn’t Ready When Tenants Needed It
Most private landlords had until midnight at the end of Sunday 31 May to give tenants the official Renters’ Rights information sheet. By Monday morning, FHDC didn’t [...]
FHDC HR Reports Reveal Disciplinary Resignations and Governance Failures
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own HR reviews show a sharp rise in disciplinary cases, complex investigations involving Internal Audit, staff resignations before [...]
Folkestone Town Centre Plan: Can New Markets Bring Shoppers Back?
A new Town Centre Operating Model aims to turn Folkestone’s public-realm works into a living, trading, event-filled town centre. Scrutiny councillors liked the idea, but [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Free Parking Plan Sent Back After £356k Warning
A proposal for 20 minutes’ free parking in Folkestone & Hythe town-centre car parks hasn’t been killed off. But scrutiny councillors want the Cabinet member to look [...]
The Long Read: Martello Lakes Pool Promise: Where the £5.5m S106 Money Went
Folkestone & Hythe’s own papers show the Martello Lakes swimming pool dream has vanished. The money has gone elsewhere, the land decision is still coming, and the [...]
Saga’s Enbrook Homes Plan Revives Folkestone Redevelopment Row
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 [...]
Dirty Air, Green Silence: Folkestone & Hythe’s PM2.5 Failure
Folkestone & Hythe is above the World Health Organization guideline for PM2.5. The council doesn’t directly monitor PM2.5. It has no Smoke Control Areas. It logged 129 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Free Parking Plan Could Cost £356k
A proposal to give drivers 20 minutes’ free parking in Folkestone & Hythe town centre car parks has obvious public appeal. But a council report says the idea could cost [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Ward Budgets: £1m Local Grants, But £133k Unspent
Small grants. Local projects. Real money. Folkestone & Hythe’s ward-budget scheme is back for 2026/27 with a bigger pot — and community groups should be getting ready [...]
The Long Read: Cllr David Wimble’s Register of Interests: FHDC’s Address Trail
Cllr David Wimble, also recorded in company papers as William David Wimble, has a growing trail of company names, registered offices, trading addresses, council property [...]
Folkestone Folca 1 Flats Plan: Planning Law and Noise Risks
Folca 1 is heading towards retail and flats, not the medical centre once promised. But this isn’t a normal planning application. It’s a narrow Class MA prior approval [...]
David Wimble Helicopter Gift: The Alcaline Flights, KCC Register and Looker Adverts
Cllr David Wimble’s KCC declaration says his September Alcaline Aviation helicopter lift was a gift. His Facebook trail points to three 2025 flights. Now The Looker, the [...]
FHDC Procurement Card Receipts: Why Restaurant Bills Still Need Explaining
FHDC’s officer subsistence figures allow £6.88 for breakfast, £9.50 for lunch, £3.76 for tea and £11.76 for supper — £31.90 for the whole day. Yet five [...]
Folkestone & Hythe DC’s Leas Cliff Hall Contract: The £13.2m ATG Payment Trail Behind a £10m Deal
The council’s own papers show a 20-year RPI-linked deal, no profit-share, falling ticket sales, patchy monitoring — and a public contract register that still tells [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £24m Paid Out, Sewage Works Approved, Delivery Questions Remain
Before a single Otterpool Park home has been built, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own payment data shows nearly £24m in Otterpool equity, share-capital and [...]