Saying one thing and doing another is something our local Tories are good at. Let me explain, Recently I received a Tory leaflet through my door, as I suspect have many of [...]
David Richard Pownceby (pictured), the owner of Sunningdale House Developments Limited, the company who has offered Folkestone & Hythe District Council, somewhere in the [...]
An analysis of eight out of twelve Kent Council’s shows that £61,317,807 worth of contracts were started before they were awarded, according to publicly available [...]
Exclusive I have already put forward solutions to lower your Council Tax by £128 This would apply to every household who pays council tax, wherever the household may be in [...]
Over the last week, I have been asked about housing while out and about on the Campaign trail. I have answered questions to the best of my knowledge, and with the three sets [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts show they paid out £24,6m than they received in income over the last three years. Given what we know about missing [...]
A few days ago I received an election flyer through my door. On the flyer it states: “Move to a Committee system of governance in May 2024.” But I would go one [...]
There is no doubt we need to build more affordable homes in our district. I expect every candidate in this election, whether they belong to a party or not, would agree we [...]
Life on a campaign trail trying to get elected has it moments. Yesterday for instance, there were several dogs on the other side of doors, which were seriously attempting [...]
Perhaps Cllr Susan Carey was right after all when she said we should sell Otterpool Park in February 2023. I say that as the company set up to deliver the Otterpool Project, [...]
I care about our environment, whether it is Princes Parade, Otterpool, our air, our rivers, or our seas. I care so much, I am taking Southern Water to tribunal to discover [...]
£71,422 does not appear on either of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published purchase order data, or its payment to supplier data, for just one contractor. [...]
We need a thriving district. We need a business friendly environment. We need to help businesses come here, and local start up businesses to thrive here. We need to help them [...]
Yesterday, 4 April 2023, the Outline Planning application for 8,500 homes at Otterpool Park was granted by 7 votes to 5, by Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s [...]
This is a guest post Yesterday, I let it be known Folkestone & Hythe District Council had made 650 retrospective purchase orders (RPO) in 2021/22, with a total value of [...]
This is a Guest Post All Folkestone & Hythe District Council councillors and officers, especially the s151 officer of the Council, owe a fiduciary duty to the local [...]
“Homeless people do not have bank accounts” says Folkestone & Hythe District Council. We suspect this statement by the Council is not entirely true. We say [...]
The data released by the Environment Agency regarding the total duration (hours) of all spills by Southern Water, prior to processing into the sea and the East Stour river, [...]
So it was a cock up, another one, but not the only one on last night’s agenda at the final full Council, before the elections on 4 May 2023. Cllr Keen (Lab) asked her [...]
Updated 28 March @ 11:05am How, how could this happen? How can the directors of Oportunitas be employees of the Council, and be elected Cllrs, when that’s not [...]
So we are under starters orders. The Otterpool Park planning application; which we said at the beginning of this month had a provisional date of 4 April 2023, has now been [...]
This is a Guest Post Hello peps, today I am going to explain how it is possible to lower your Council Tax, and put some money away into the Council’s piggy bank more [...]
Updated 23/03/23 @ 18:30 Back in Sept 2022 we pointed out that Oportunitas Limited a company wholly owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council was incorporated [...]
This is a guest post I am a Folkestone & Hythe District Council Officer. What is written here is a distallation of my own and other colleagues opinions. All opinion [...]
Well things are turning stranger by the minute. With regards to the Hythe West by-election, which we wrote about on the 3 March 2023, raising the issues of missing votes, and [...]
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