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6 out of 10 drivers prefer contactless payments at district car parks, but cash option to remain.

May 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have 26 car park where customers have to pay. In 2019/20 all car parks brought in £1,377,657 according to Council data. In 2020/21, [...]

Day 2: Stainer Trial at Southwark Crown Court

May 4, 2022 // 5 Comments

The second day of the Southwark Crown Court Trial of Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) saw HMRC’s Prosecuting Counsel Anthony Hucklesby present the jury with the [...]

Stainer Trial begins

May 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

The trial of Michael & Doris Stainer begun today 03.05.22, at Southwark Crown Court with the swearing in of the jury, and the trial proper beginning tomorrow. The case is [...]

Council taking the menopause seriously, and good on them.

May 2, 2022 // 1 Comment

Statistics tell us that ultimately all women who reach a certain age – average 51 – will hit menopause. Of these around, 80% will get symptoms from the well-known hot [...]

See ya tomorrow Mikey

May 2, 2022 // 2 Comments

The trial of `Michael and Doris Stainer commences tomorrow, Tuesday May 3rd at Southwark Crown Court before HH Judge Perrins. The charges were first described in detail in a [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Update: No new Canterbury Waste Water Treatment plant until 2030.

May 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

In a stark admission made by Simon Thomas head of Canterbury City Council’s planning department, in relation to the Stodmarsh Nutrient Neutrality issue; has said: The [...]

Kent continues to lead the way in housing Ukrainian Refugees.

April 30, 2022 // 1 Comment

The people of Kent are wonderful, especially those who continue to take Ukrainian refugees. Data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Home [...]

Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees

April 28, 2022 // 4 Comments

Sandra’s daughter Georgina, born in 2010, began crawling late, around the time that other children were learning to walk. Pre-school staff warned that her speech was [...]

Matt Dunkley KCC Director for Children, Young People and Education to leave KCC

April 27, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated @ 20:17 Matt Dunkley CBE Kent County Council Corporate Director for Children, Young People and Education, will be leaving KCC in the near future. Mr Dunkley was the [...]

Will the 7 Parish Councils who received £130,000 of CIL money allow residents to have input into how it’s spent?

April 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008, as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver [...]

Medical ‘Golden Hour’ broken with waiting times for ambulances at record high

April 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

So Mark Quinn wants to build a new £170m hospital extension shell in Canterbury in return for 2,000 homes adjacent the site. If all goes to plan, Canterbury will become the [...]

Quinn’s donations to Tories climbs to a £150,000

April 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated @19:45 The controversial developer Mark Quinn (below left) has via his company Quinn Estates Limited given £7,200 of ‘consultancy services’ to Tory MP [...]

Council’s use of potentially harmful Glyphosate falls by 80%

April 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

In Feb 2017, The Shepway Vox Team ran the story: ”Probably Carcinogenic to Humans.” The story was about the use of Glyphosate by Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

Start Me Up

April 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]

Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility for free

April 19, 2022 // 5 Comments

Developer Quinn Estates have been offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility on land owned by Kent County Council & Canterbury City [...]

Trial date set for Cllr Russell Tillson

April 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

Following a brief hearing in Maidstone Crown Court on April 19th, Councillor Russell Tillson (72) has been sent for trial on June 19th 2023.Cllr Tillson had previously [...]

Fear is the path to the Dark Side

April 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

“In many ways Folkestonians have more to fear from those migrating in from London than those arriving, desperate, on inflatable dinghies from overseas,” according [...]

Cllrs tax free travel and annual financial uplift on their allowances

April 14, 2022 // 1 Comment

Hidden away in Part 9/82 of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s current Constitution, it states: The allowances shall be automatically adjusted, annually, by [...]

Kent leads the way housing Ukrainian Refugees

April 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

As of the 6th April, the wonderful people of Kent had more visas issued to house Ukrainian Refugees, than any other county, according to data released by the Department for [...]

£35.7m paid in ‘exit payments’ to KCC staff in last seven years.

April 11, 2022 // 2 Comments

Exit payments from Councils have long been controversial and many have been paid out to “public sector fat cats“, according to a House of Commons Briefing paper. [...]

Who are you?

April 8, 2022 // 2 Comments

Updated 10.04.22 @16:20 Faceless and nameless they are. We don’t know what position they held at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but we do know that in [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine

April 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]

Cllr Monk has lost the financial plot regarding Otterpool Park

April 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

On the 24th Nov 2021, Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, rose in the chamber to answer a question put by Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab). She [...]

Princess Royal called in to planning as ‘evidence of neglect’ is confirmed by Council

April 2, 2022 // 2 Comments

‘evidence of neglect‘, objections from The Victorian Society, KCC Archaeology, CPRE Historic Buildings Committee, and Save Britain’s Heritage as well as a [...]

Have your say: Folkestone Place Plan 6th April

April 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

What does a Town Centre for the future look like? Ask your mum, dad, grandkids, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and you’ll have a lot of commonalities and lot [...]

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