Many Fire Doors in Communal Flats owned by FHDC are non-compliant
Exclusive Front door Fire doors hung in communal flats, owned by Folkestone & Hythe District and which open up onto a communal space to allow tenants to escape in the [...]
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Chief Executive & Founder of proposed Solar Farm on Romney Marsh named in Paradise Papers
Updated 16 Feb – @ 16:00 The company behind the proposed South East Energy Park on Romney Marsh, Low Carbon, have links to the offshore tax haven of Jersey. Their Chief [...]
A little bit of history about development on Folkestone harbour arm
Thirty six years ago Sea Containers Property Services Ltd– ultimately owned in the offshore tax haven of Bermuda at the time, made a planning application for housing, and a [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Proposed Solar Farm company will milk profit from sunshine and send it to one of the most notable tax havens in the world
Making money from Solar energy is big business. Folkestone & Hythe Cabinet on Wednesday 12 February, will discuss the approval and recommendations to accept SNRG Ltd as [...]
Stephen Mulholland, part owner of Lympne Castle linked to tax haven companies in Barbados
It has been reported in The Telegraph, and elsewhere, Dr Ann Mulholland is due to be “taking [her] millions out of Britain“, because she & her husband [...]
Leaseholders say they’re being fleeced by Property Management Company at Shorncliffe Heights
Leaseholders on the Shorncliffe Heights Development are up in arms about the service charges they are paying. They say they’ve increased considerably and are being [...]
Council set to borrow £90m to fund New Leisure Centre, Otterpool Park & FOLCA 2
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is set to borrow £90m on three capital projects which include £58m on Otterpool, £23m on a new lesiure centre and £7.5m on FOLCA [...]
Part 3 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District
Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]
‘Ongoing public access’ to Folkestone harbour arm threatened if 410 new homes not built
Updated 12/02/25 @ 12:52 Sir Roger De Haan, a man who is “uncompromising when he sets his mind to something“, has via his company and agent, resubmitted revised [...]
Council overspend budget on transitioning to committee system by £22,000, so far
It had a budget of £100,000. However, at the first full council of the year, held on the 29 January 2025, Cllr David Godfrey (Con) made it clear the budget for moving to a [...]
Part 2 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District
Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]
Half of households on Council waiting lists in Kent & Medway could be housed in long term empty properties.
The number of people on Kent & Medway Council’s housing registers stood at 15,592, as of March 2023 (latest data available). In Oct 2023, the number of long term [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £79m spent, Devolution coming and £26m for a waste water treatment works
“The fact we are persuing this [Otterpool Park] must mean we think this is going to have a good return, otherwise we wouldn’t be doing it, so there is some [...]
Land or Property purchased for a million or more in Folkestone & Hythe District
More than eighty pieces of land and property have sold for more than a million pounds in the Folkestone & Hythe district, between 2013 – 2024, according to land [...]
Part 1 – Land Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District
Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]
Council sell Biggins Wood land for £4.5m to Wickhambreaux Developments Ltd
After eight years it has been sold for £4,518,000, according to the land registry. The site was purchased in Dec 2016, by the Council, under urgency powers, by the now Chief [...]
Child Poverty in Kent & Medway rises across most districts over last nine years
The Local Child Poverty Statistics for all councils in Kent & Medway, focus on longer-term trends to understand how poverty has changed in these districts over a period [...]
Council Temporary Accommodation costs at highest levels ever
The reality of the figures published by Folkestone & Hythe District Council in their payment to suppliers data shows incontrovertibly the cost of housing people in [...]
De Haan loses reserved matters application 24/0505/FH
It has long been the case that local planning authorities must give reasons for refusing planning permission or imposing conditions. This is because there is a statutory [...]
Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH to be heard on 21 January 2025
The controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH will go before the planning committee on the 21 January 2025, at 7pm, in the Council chamber. The [...]
Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?
The financial exit package data paid to employees leaving any of the Councils in Kent, including Medway, over the last three years, is wrong by more than £6m. Each year in [...]
Kent councils with the biggest debts
New figures reveal which Kent councils have the highest level of debt – and those who aren’t a single penny in the red, as of Q2 2024/25. Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is [...]
No Local Authoritiy in Kent will meet their 2030 Net Zero Targets
No local authority in Kent will meet their Net Zero targets they set for either their Council estate or whole district by 2030. In fact, only two of the thirteen local [...]
Councillors ward budgets bring JOY to our communities
Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs receive £3,000 of taxpayers money to per year to spend on community projects that help deliver the Council’s strategic objectives. In [...]
Government Accounts show debt fell by £1.5 trillion and there is no £22bn black hole
It is not often we foray into national politics, but on this particular occasion we felt it necessary as the national debt fell by £1.5 trillion according to the Whole of [...]