Princes Parade: Financial mismanagement of Faithful & Gould contract
Updated 6 March @ 07:40am According to the Council’s procurement guide under Value for Money it states: Value for money is a balance of quality, price and delivery and [...]
Bouverie Place to be sold to new investor
Bouverie Place, currently owned by CCP III SHOPPING FOLKESTONE S.A.R.L., registered in the offshore tax jurisdiction of Luxembourg, is to be sold to a new investor. Bouverie [...]
Sunningdale House Developments Ltd make offer to buy Princes Parade.
Updated: 26 Feb 23 @09:15am We can confirm that Sunningdale House Developments Limited, are the company who have made an offer to buy Princes Parade, from Folkestone & [...]
Cllr Stuart Peall deliberately and knowingly misled Cllrs over Council Tax
So residents of Folkestone & Hythe District Council have the highest Council Tax of any Council, in Kent, for the twentieth year in a row. Regardless of the nonsense Cllr [...]
Southern Water: No clue how much undiluted raw sewage they’ve pumped into our seas for 34 years
Exclusive They don’t have a clue. Not a single idea of how much undiluted raw sewage they pump into our rivers and seas. Is it plausible that the closing of St [...]
Council Tax: Is it excessive to ask – Where’s all the money gone?
The last item on the agenda to go before full council, today, the 22 February is, Report number A/22/31 The last recommendations in the report states: To determine that the [...]
Princes Parade Update: Possible solutions to discover the lost £5m.
Updated 6 March @ 07:55am How does Folkestone & Hythe District Council lose £5m on Princes Parade? Cllr Jim Martin doesn’t know, nor does Cllr Lesley Whybrow. Cllr [...]
Community Organsiation Cllr Ward Grant analysis 2014/15 to 2022/23
Following on from our Community Groups – Grab the Cash blog, we’ve continued to dive into this pool of data, provided exclusively & publicly by Folkestone [...]
Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects
Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]
Council look to sell Princes Parade to Property Developer & possibly Otterpool Park as well
“Do what ever it takes to make it stack up” Cllr Martin was of Course refering to Princes Parade at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Valentines Day. He [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Consultation opens on new information submitted
Further information relating to the Otterpool Park outline planning application – Y19/0257/FH – has been submitted. Otterpool Park, a 756 hectare site, is where [...]
Council Tax set to rise by £103, with New Romney leading the way.
Once again New Romney, Hawkinge and Folkestone take the medal positions for the highest Council Tax rates across the district, using the band D average. It’s inevitable [...]
You’re my Mate
“You’re my mate and I will stand by you” sang Right Said Fred, on their single released on the 6 August 2001, and no doubt Folkestone & Hythe District [...]
Our heritage is of substantial value to us all
Does it matter? Some think it does Is it important? Depends who you talk to. What the devil are we talking about? Well Heritage of course. Heritage is an emotive [...]
Incompetence: Power without accountablity
Purchase Orders (POs) are either the prevention of all evil, or the creation of all evil in local government, and elsewhere. At Folkestone & Hythe District Council, they [...]
SAGA Enbrook site intended for future housing.
Updated: 08/02/23 @ 17:55 No doubt you’ve heard, and possibly read, SAGA is to close its Kent headquarters at Enbrook (Sandgate) due to the changes in working [...]
Part 42: Princes Parade – further evidence of incompetence by Council
It never rains around here it just comes pouring down, says Mark Knopfler on the song It Never Rains, from the Love Over Gold album. And after today’s installment of a [...]
Another hat trick of incompetence by Folkestone & Hythe DC.
No matter what one does, the same basic mistakes are being made time and again at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. And the Council have scored another hat trick of of [...]
President of Hythe Town FC & Chairman of GSE Property Group to discuss new Community Stadium at private meeting at Hythe Imperial tomorrow.
Tomorrow at 10am a gathering of those who sit on Hythe Town Football Club (HTFC) will take place at The Imperial Hotel in Hythe (Kent) behind closed doors. Those who will [...]
Do Sunningdale House Developments Ltd have growing cashflow issues?
Word has reached the Shepway Vox Team, that various companies within the Sunningdale House Developments group of companies, owned by David Pownceby (pictured), are having [...]
Interim Chief Finance Officer likely to cost minimum of £104,000
According to Cllr Jackie Meade‘s quick back of the fag packet calculation, at the Personnel Committee on the 2 Feb, an interim s151 officer was £100,000. A s151 [...]
Our public face throws hat into ring for forthcoming May elections
Before getting onto the part where our public face throws his hat into the ring for the forthcoming elections in May, there’s another matter to draw to your attention. [...]
Fly-tipping in Folkestone & Hythe District rises 52%, the highest in Kent
The number of recorded fly-tipping incidents between 2020/21 and 2021/22, across the Folkestone & Hythe District has grown by 52%, according to the latest statistics [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Kent Ecological Advice Service query if Biodiversity Net Gain will exceed 20%.
It can’t be easy wanting to build a new town where you wish to build up to 10,000 homes. It would seem that Otterpool Park LLP, the master developer is running into [...]
Council’s accounts: Another hat trick of irregularities
How many times does it take Folkestone & Hythe District Council to produce a draft set of accounts for publication, for the financial year 2021/22? No it’s not a [...]