Folkestone & Hythe District Council

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC’s parking charges: five years of steep rises, a seafront summer premium, and 2026/27 proposals under scrutiny

November 11, 2025 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s District Council’s discretionary parking charges have been ratcheted up across four agreed budgets (2022/23–2025/26) and one set of [...]

Folkestone & Hythe discretionary fees up; bereavement leads, court costs frozen

November 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Over five budgets from 2022/23 to the proposed 2026/27 schedule, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: FHDC and Homes England extend partnership

November 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated 12:30 – 7 Nov 2025 Folkestone & Hythe is trying to turn a long-promised green light into a legal permission. With the six-month Collaboration Agreement [...]

The Air We Don’t Measure: Folkestone & Hythe’s DCs PM2.5 Blind Spot and Wood-Burner Pollution

November 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

The council’s latest Air-Quality Report 2025 measures nitrogen dioxide to the decimal point — but sidesteps the particles most linked to early deaths. Meanwhile, Hythe is [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Ward Budgets: £43k Gap in Council Report

November 5, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s draft Equality & Diversity report 2024-25, to go before Cabinet on the 12 Novemeber, claims £83,000 in ward grants supporting [...]

Folkestone & Hythe s106 Breach at Sandgate Pavilions: Stoneleigh House Link Not Secured—14 Affordable Homes Lost

November 4, 2025 // 1 Comment

On 3 May 2016, Folkestone & Hythe’s Tory controlled Planning Committee approved Sandgate Pavilions (owned by a David Pownceby Company) (Y15/1154/SH) subject to a [...]

Stoneleigh House and the £1.716m Question: Where Did the Affordable Homes Go?

November 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated: 09:35 on 3 Nov 2025 A fire-damaged Stoneleigh House on Tram Road, Folkestone, goes to auction this month with its 2018 consent for 14 affordable flats long since [...]

Why Folkestone & Hythe is getting poorer — and how to turn it around

October 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

New official slides from the district’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) confirm what many residents have felt for years: Folkestone & Hythe has grown poorer relative [...]

Folkestone and Hythe Council: A Decade of Temporary Staff Costs

October 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s temporary staff costs have seesawed over the past decade, peaking at about £1.66m in 2022/23 before falling to £853,699 in [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council homelessness costs: the complete guide

October 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s homelessness ledger tells a stark story. Between April and September 2025, the district council paid £543,556.40 for temporary accommodation, [...]

Council Tax Bailiffs in Kent: Councils Ranked and What It Means for You

October 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

The numbers are rising. After a fall in 2023/24, Kent’s 12 district councils sharply increased the number of Council Tax debts sent to enforcement agents in 2024/25 — [...]

Is FHDC’s Council Tax Policy Unfair to Disabled Universal Credit Claimants?

October 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

An FHDC case exposes a fixable flaw in working-age Council Tax Reduction—and a lawful route the Council could use today. The Story In A Nutshell A disabled resident who [...]

Otterpool Park LLP: £2.2m Interest Owed on £24m Folkestone & Hythe District Council Loans — Explained

October 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

Otterpool Park LLP—the master-developer vehicle wholly controlled by Folkestone & Hythe District Council—has leaned ever more heavily on council loans while tangible [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Plan to Cut Temporary Accommodation Costs

October 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Cabinet backs a £5m plan to buy 20 council-owned homes for temporary accommodation and temporarily switch up to 20 existing council properties — as usage has doubled from [...]

Green-Led Folkestone & Hythe Council Falling Short on Climate Action

October 15, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has joined the call for Westminster to pass the Climate and Nature Bill. That is welcome symbolism. But the council’s own climate [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Budget 2026/27: Council Tax Rises, Services, and Risks

October 15, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council published its 2025/26 Budget Strategy last December and its 2026/27 Budget Strategy this October. Read together, they show a Council [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC Temporary Accommodation Costs Forecast to Rise £273,500 (≈30%) to £1.2m in 2025/26

October 14, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council warns that the cost of housing homeless households in temporary accommodation (TA) is spiralling. In 2024/25 the council’s own [...]

Folkestone’s St Eanswythe Gets Her Head Back—At Last

October 14, 2025 // 1 Comment

After sixteen months without a face, St Eanswythe is finally making eye contact with Folkestone again. The council says the Radnor Park statue is restored; the town sighs [...]

Lidl Folkestone Plan Faces Mixed Reaction and Ownership Questions

October 14, 2025 // 2 Comments

Discount supermarket Lidl has unveiled proposals to relocate its Folkestone town-centre store (in Shellons Street – which has long been planned to become the new bus [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC Parking: What the Website Hides and the Accounts Reveal

October 9, 2025 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) says it’s transparent about parking. The website’s “Off-Street Parking” (Parking Webpage_24/25) page shows you a [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council sets aside £188,000 a month for debt

October 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has taken on £38 million in borrowing from other local authorities to fund its flagship Otterpool Park development – even though [...]

Romney Marsh Residents Unite to Stop Mega Solar Farms on Prime Farmland

October 2, 2025 // 0 Comments

A community Petition opposing large-scale solar farms on Romney Marsh was presented to full council on 1 October 2025. The petition – titled “Stop industrial-scale solar [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Planning Appeals: Costs, Rules & Success Rates

September 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is facing a wave of planning appeals against its decisions. Appeals arise when a developer or resident formally contests a refused [...]

Are Folkestone’s Bus Stops Breaching the Equality Act 2010?

September 29, 2025 // 0 Comments

The closure of Folkestone’s 70-year-old bus station and the hurried switch to temporary roadside stops in Middelburg Square has sparked anger from elderly and disabled [...]

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