Folkestone & Hythe District Council

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: Cash Withdrawals on Purchase Cards, Weak Evidence, No Questions Asked

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

A routine internal audit update to Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Audit and Governance Committee has surfaced an awkward line that deserves far more daylight [...]

Southern Water Legal Action: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Escalate Sewage Pollution Fight

February 22, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Southern Water and the Environment Agency faced residents and campaigners in the same room on Thursday 19 February, to discuss sewage [...]

Madeira Walk Landslide: Folkestone Leas Playground Cliff Stabilisation Cost Rises to £400,000

February 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Madeira Walk was shut on 29 February 2024 because the ground above Folkestone’s Lower Leas playground looked as if it might go. Two days later, on 2 March, it did: the [...]

FHDC Budget 2026/27: Paying £63,000 a Year for Empty, Unlettable Otterpool Homes

February 19, 2026 // 2 Comments

The council’s budget papers for 2026/27 admit it is now paying ongoing costs on four Otterpool properties sitting empty, “not fit to be let”, while housing pressures [...]

FHDC Budget 2026/27: The £38k Saving That Weakens Contract Oversight

February 19, 2026 // 3 Comments

Here’s the £38,280 “saving” in Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s 2026/27 budget (item 12) that ought to set off the loudest alarm in the building — because [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Budget 2026/27: Council Tax, Reserves and Debt

February 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s 2026/27 budget (item 12) goes to Full Council on Wednesday 25 February with a headline most residents will miss, because it [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Housing Register: The Five-Bedroom “Ghost Queue” Trapping 11 Families

February 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

This is a Guest Post On the Folkestone & Hythe District Council housing register there is a category that, on paper, looks normal. In practice it behaves like a dead end. [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council Fees: Prices Up Since 2019 — Are You Paying More Than Inflation?

February 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

Most people never read a council’s fees and charges appendices unless they absolutely have to. You only encounter them at awkward, very human moments: when you need a copy [...]

Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

February 13, 2026 // 0 Comments

Hythe Bay’s “no swim” problem didn’t start in the 2020s. It has a paper trail that runs from the mid-1970s, through the coliform “fail” tables of the 1980s, into [...]

Controlled Parking Zones: What FHDC Must Fix Before Adopting Its CPZ Policy

February 12, 2026 // 3 Comments

Controlled Parking Zones are arguments over a finite resource: a few metres of kerb outside your home or shop. From Snargate to Sellindge, Lydd to Lyminge where streets can [...]

FOLCA Folkestone: FOLCA 1 Saved for Retail-and-Flats, Sale Funds FOLCA 2 Medical Centre

February 11, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone’s long-stalled FOLCA project has entered its most consequential phase yet: FOLCA 1 is being sold, FOLCA 2 is being refurbished, and councillors are now publicly [...]

Sunshine Bistro Folkestone: Owner Faces Losing Alcohol Licence Over Illegal Workers

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Council hearing today will decide fate of Sunshine Bistro after immigration enforcement raid uncovered four illegal workers Sunshine cafe, the popular town centre restaurant [...]

Temporary Accommodation Costs Hit Record High at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Passing £1m

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s spending on temporary accommodation has now crossed £1,052,870 in the current financial year, according to the council’s [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre Trust: From £150,000 Council Grant to Administration — What the Sale Price Reveals

February 6, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone Sports Centre didn’t die because it had nothing. It died because it had no money where it mattered: in the bank. That is the central message running through the [...]

Folkestone & Hythe ‘Stretches the Mortgage’ on £192m Debt: MRP Savings Now, Higher Bills Later

February 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) is proposing a change that makes its finances look dramatically healthier on paper — not by paying down debt, but by changing [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax: The Numbers Were Blacked Out — the Bill Wasn’t

February 4, 2026 // 1 Comment

There’s a familiar annual trick in local government: lead with the smallest number you control, then hope nobody asks about the rest. This year, Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Cold Homes, Fuel Poverty and FHDC Independent Living: Why Older Residents Are Still Being Left in the Cold

February 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the bleak mid-winter; Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Christina Rossetti Cold is not just uncomfortable; for older people it can be [...]

Why Is FHDC Paying 53% of the Folkestone Pool Rebuild (£2.4m of £4.5m) Without Owning the Sports Centre?

January 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

At last night’s Full Council, Cllr Nicola Keen cut to the simplest version of the Folkestone Sports Centre row: why is Folkestone & Hythe District Council being asked [...]

Wimble’s Wobble: KCC Cabinet Member David Wimble Says “£52m” Adult Social Care Overspend — KCC’s Own Papers Say Otherwise

January 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

During a debate at Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Full Council meeting, Reform UK councillor David Wimble backed extra support for residents “down on their [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Tax Reduction Scheme: 100% Support, Bailiffs, and the Second-Homes Premium

January 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has voted through a major change to its Council Tax Reduction (CTR) scheme for 2026/27, restoring up to 100% support for working-age [...]

Folca 2 in Folkestone: Council Awards £2.4m Refurbishment Contract as Town-Centre Medical Centre Plan Advances

January 28, 2026 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has awarded a contract worth £2.42m (excluding VAT) to carry out phase-one refurbishment works at Folca 2 – in purple below [...]

FHDC Contract Register “Time Travel”: £14.87m of Contracts Starting Before Award — Waivers, Letters of Intent and What the Constitution Requires

January 27, 2026 // 1 Comment

We, The Shepway Vox Team, have been rummaging in the Council’s contract register (once again) like Doc Brown in a garage full of suspicious gadgets. And, sure enough, the [...]

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Folkestone & Hythe District Council

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: Cash Withdrawals on Purchase Cards, Weak Evidence, No Questions Asked

Southern Water Legal Action: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Escalate Sewage Pollution Fight

Madeira Walk Landslide: Folkestone Leas Playground Cliff Stabilisation Cost Rises to £400,000

FHDC Budget 2026/27: Paying £63,000 a Year for Empty, Unlettable Otterpool Homes

FHDC Budget 2026/27: The £38k Saving That Weakens Contract Oversight

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Budget 2026/27: Council Tax, Reserves and Debt

Folkestone & Hythe Housing Register: The Five-Bedroom “Ghost Queue” Trapping 11 Families

Folkestone & Hythe Council Fees: Prices Up Since 2019 — Are You Paying More Than Inflation?

Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

Controlled Parking Zones: What FHDC Must Fix Before Adopting Its CPZ Policy

FOLCA Folkestone: FOLCA 1 Saved for Retail-and-Flats, Sale Funds FOLCA 2 Medical Centre

Sunshine Bistro Folkestone: Owner Faces Losing Alcohol Licence Over Illegal Workers

Temporary Accommodation Costs Hit Record High at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Passing £1m

Folkestone Sports Centre Trust: From £150,000 Council Grant to Administration — What the Sale Price Reveals

Folkestone & Hythe ‘Stretches the Mortgage’ on £192m Debt: MRP Savings Now, Higher Bills Later

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax: The Numbers Were Blacked Out — the Bill Wasn’t

Cold Homes, Fuel Poverty and FHDC Independent Living: Why Older Residents Are Still Being Left in the Cold

Why Is FHDC Paying 53% of the Folkestone Pool Rebuild (£2.4m of £4.5m) Without Owning the Sports Centre?

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Tax Reduction Scheme: 100% Support, Bailiffs, and the Second-Homes Premium

Folca 2 in Folkestone: Council Awards £2.4m Refurbishment Contract as Town-Centre Medical Centre Plan Advances

FHDC Contract Register “Time Travel”: £14.87m of Contracts Starting Before Award — Waivers, Letters of Intent and What the Constitution Requires

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

Folkestone’s Housing Register Houdinis: A Masterclass in the Peter Principle and FHDC Maths

Folkestone & Hythe DC’s Audit Exposed: The £3.4m Princes Parade Write-Off Buried in ‘Clean’ Accounts