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Part 3 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District

February 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

February 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 31, 2025 // 2 Comments

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

January 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

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.

January 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

“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

January 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

January 13, 2025 // 6 Comments

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?

January 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

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

December 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

December 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

December 16, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

December 15, 2024 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Evidence suggests new housing targets numbers set by Labour government for Kent, will not be met.

December 14, 2024 // 3 Comments

Updated 09:55 – 15 Dec 2024 Is it a pipe dream? Can this Labour Government either build or start 1.5 million homes before the end of the next parliament in 2029? The [...]

Housing: Kent & Medway Local Authorities have no idea about the number of hazards in the 145,000 private rented homes

December 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Housing professionals who work for local authorities in Kent & Medway do not know how many category one hazards, or what the most common hazards are in Kent & [...]

Council misleading residents over financial exit packages by £323,000

December 4, 2024 // 1 Comment

Updated 4 Dec 2024 @ 15:03 Of course you’d believe it when we say Folkestone & Hythe District Council misleads you, wouldn’t you… Each year, the [...]

Evidence shows Council failing to provide sufficient affordable housing

December 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Many of you will recall your school reports from days gone by. No doubt many of you can recall the phrase, could do better, associated with them. Well this is an apt phrase [...]

Council seeks Judicial Review against Planning Application 21/2389/FH

December 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is seeking a judicial review of a Planning Inspector’s decision, made on the 6 August 2024. This decision relates to planning [...]

Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works

November 30, 2024 // 7 Comments

Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]

Dignity in Dying – Freedom of Choice.

November 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

On May 16 2021, we ran a guest post, written by a member of the East Kent’s regional branch of Dignity in Dying. Today our elected Parliamentarians will decide if assisted [...]

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