Housing

Otterpool Park Targets 2028 Start as Homes England’s Hillhurst Farm Is Fast-Tracked for First 300 Homes

October 7, 2026 // 1 Comment

Construction of the first homes at Otterpool Park is now targeted to begin in 2028, with the first 38 homes forecast to be completed the following year. But before a brick [...]

Fourteen Affordable Homes Became Two — Now KCC Says Don’t Decide Folkestone’s Stoneleigh House Plan Yet

September 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has been told not to determine plans for 14 flats on Tram Road until the developer provides something currently missing from the [...]

110 Homes, Flood Zone 3 and a Field the Local Plan Never Allocated: Inside New Romney’s Cockreed Lane Application

September 25, 2026 // 1 Comment

There’s nothing particularly dramatic about the field north of Cockreed Lane (pictured Orange below). It’s 4.71 hectares of agricultural land on the edge of New Romney: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sunningdale House Collapse: The Folkestone Land Is Sold, but £13m in Subsidiary Debts Remains

September 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

£378,000 bought the land at Tram Road. It did not buy an end to the Sunningdale story. Buried in the sixth administrators’ progress report for Sunningdale House [...]

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

September 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

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

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 [...]

Part 3: Hodson’s Chilmington Green Collapse — £211.9m in Creditor Claims, Six Administrations and 5,750 Homes at Stake

September 4, 2026 // 2 Comments

Chilmington Green was supposed to be much more than a housing estate. Ashford planned for a new community of up to 5,750 homes, schools, shops, parks and roads, backed by [...]

Plug-In Solar Panels in Folkestone & Hythe: What Renters Need to Know About Landlord Permission and Planning

September 2, 2026 // 2 Comments

Plug-in solar could finally allow renters to generate some of their own electricity. But there’s an awkward catch: the person paying the electricity bill may still have [...]

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 [...]

GSE’s £120m Hythe Imperial Plan: 291 Homes, a 25m Pool — and a Planning File That Doesn’t Quite Add Up

August 26, 2026 // 2 Comments

GSE’s Imperial Gardens scheme promises 291 homes, around 73 “affordable homes”, a new 25m swimming pool and substantial private investment on Hythe seafront. [...]

Everist Court Lyminge: The Battle Over FHDC’s Five Social Homes and Former Age UK Community Centre

August 23, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council owns Everist Court, has already committed more than £630,000 to turning it into housing, and must now determine its own planning [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Social Housing Waiting List Reaches 1,332 as Three-Bedroom Waits Average 170 Weeks

August 13, 2026 // 1 Comment

Someone allocated a three-bedroom council owned home in Folkestone and Hythe during the past year had waited 667 weeks. That’s nearly 13 years. They were the extreme case, [...]

Kent Right to Buy: Eligible Sales Jump 143% After Discount Cuts

August 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

MHCLG’s newest figures record 192 eligible sales classed as Right to Buy across Kent’s seven council landlords in 2025/26, against 79 a year earlier. Four east Kent [...]

Kent Housing Conditions: Government Data Models One in Five Homes as Non-Decent in Four Council Areas

August 9, 2026 // 0 Comments

Less than two years after Kent’s own housing officers said the evidence base on local housing conditions was “scarce”, a new government model has put numbers against [...]

From Unsafe Homes to a Top-Rated Council Landlord: How the East Kent Housing Scandal Forced Folkestone & Hythe to Rebuild

August 2, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has earned the regulator’s highest consumer grade. It deserves proper credit. But C1 didn’t fall from a clear blue sky. It grew [...]

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