Folkestone & Hythe District Council

New Beach Holiday Village: Jersey Ownership and US Governance Questions Behind Dymchurch Plan

March 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has approved planning application 25/2297/FH for New Beach Holiday Village in Dymchurch as a greener, smarter revamp. But behind the [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Poverty Crisis: Food Parcels, Child Poverty and Fuel Poverty Exposed

March 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe has had years of speeches about regeneration, levelling up, opportunity, renewal, recovery and other fine words normally delivered from behind a [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council’s Offshore Ownership Blind Spot

March 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

Some councils publish policies that look a bit stale. Folkestone & Hythe District Council appears to prefer the full museum experience. Its public anti-money-laundering [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Planning Committee Faces Whitehall Power Grab

March 11, 2026 // 4 Comments

If you want to understand where power is drifting in local planning, do not just watch the next controversial application land on Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s [...]

Stodmarsh Sewage Crisis: Southern Water, Otterpool Park and East Kent

March 10, 2026 // 2 Comments

At Canterbury’s scrutiny committee on 4 March (from1hr 46m 44s onwards), Stodmarsh kept popping up like the blinking red light on a dashboard that everyone hopes belongs to [...]

Councils Cry Poverty — While Quietly Lending Each Other £Millions

March 9, 2026 // 0 Comments

We’ve just been handed a neat little window into how modern local government really works. On Tuesday 10 March, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Finance and [...]

Hamstreet Sewage Scandal: Why FHDC Failed to Act While Ashford Investigated

March 8, 2026 // 2 Comments

Residents raised a serious complaint about suspected foul contamination moving from Hamstreet towards Hythe and the sea. One council replied with site visits, [...]

Hythe Wood-Burner Pollution: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Challenged Over UCL Data

March 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

At Tuesday 3 March’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, a revealing exchange played out over domestic wood burners and air quality in Hythe. Councillor Paul Thomas recalled [...]

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” [...]

East Kent Sewage Pollution: Southern Water, Five Councils and the Statutory Nuisance Law

March 3, 2026 // 2 Comments

We’re The Shepway Vox Team, and over the past few weeks we’ve watched the same pattern play out again and again. Residents complain that sewage-contaminated discharges [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Customer Access Strategy: Digital by Choice or Digital Exclusion?

February 27, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has approved a new Customer Access Strategy 2026 -29, built around a simple promise: residents should be able to access council [...]

FHDC Homelessness Spending: Temporary Accommodation Costs Soar as Prevention Fund and Private Sector Offer Payments Rise

February 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

If you want to understand the housing pressure in Folkestone & Hythe, start with the bit that hurts: the emergency bill. Between April 2025 and January 2026, Folkestone [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council Budget: Council Tax Rise, Reserves Drawdown and Debt Repayment Shake-Up

February 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s budget debate yesterday evening didn’t hinge on a big, obvious “cuts list”. It hinged on something far less [...]

Folkestone & Hythe’s Risborough Barracks Deal: Taylor Wimpey Payments Revealed as Temporary Accommodation Costs Soar

February 25, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has so far paid Taylor Wimpey £2,390,013.56 towards the Risborough Barracks affordable homes scheme, based on supplier payment data [...]

Mandatory DBS Checks for District and Parish Councillors: The Russell Tillson Case

February 24, 2026 // 2 Comments

In the long shadow of the “Epstein files” debate — where public trust has again been tested by questions about powerful men, elite networks and who knew what — the [...]

Folkestone & Hythe’s Emissions and Biodiversity Record Was Built Under Conservative Leadership

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

A new Folkestone & Hythe District Council scrutiny report gives a detailed picture of carbon emissions and biodiversity policy. It also raises an important point of [...]