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Otterpool Park notice of planning application submitted and will be decided by Xmas 22

April 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated: 01.4.22 @21:10 According to a public and legal notice in the Evening Standard, a notice of a planning application for Otterpool Park (Y19/0257/FH) has been [...]

It’s official: We have the highest council tax in Kent for the nineteenth year in a row.

March 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Cllr Susan Carey (Con) got it wrong. The figures as published by the Ministry of Levelling Up Housing and Communities [MLUHC], on the 30 March 2022, once again, Folkestone [...]

F51: An illuminating application

March 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone is still an art school, according to Creative Folkestone. With so many forms of art prominent in the town, that may very well be the case. However, it would seem [...]

F51 Folkestone – A Tale of Two Narratives

March 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

A charitable trust/foundation can be set up by anyone who has decided that they want to contribute some of their assets or income for charitable causes. The trust is governed [...]

Princes Parade update: Costs rise 655% between 2014 and 2022

March 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

In January 2014 there was a review of a New Leisure Centre at Princes Parade, undertaken by Strategic Leisure Limited, for and on behalf of our Council. In May 2014, the [...]

Brief Leas Pavilion update

March 25, 2022 // 4 Comments

Over the last few days, we caught up with Olivier Daelemans, the owner and developer behind Leas Pavilion – Folkestone, to ask how the project is meant to move [...]

Jenners Planning Application will remove more than just trees

March 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council declared a Climate Emergency in July 2019, committing to become carbon neutral by 2030. The same year, Friends of the Earth launched a [...]

Vermin scupper Sir Roger De Haan’s planning permission on The Stade

March 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

On July 2021, we wrote the post ‘Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company pitches up on The Stade without Planning Permission‘, who wanted and did [...]

Cllr Russell Tillson charged with 5 counts of historical sexual abuse.

March 22, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated 23.3.22 @20:40 Parish & Town Cllr Russell Douglas Tillson (72) appeared at Sevenoaks Magistrates court today – Tuesday 22.03.22, and was charged with [...]

Brexit voters lost the jobs of the 800 P & O workers?

March 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated Saturday 19.3.22 @ 18:30 Antonio Cirale, is not a name you have probably heard of prior to the last few days. He is the man behind International Ferry Management Ltd [...]

Congratulations to all those involved

March 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Folkestone & Hythe District Council Core Strategy is the key planning policy document within the Council’s Local Plan. It sets the overall vision and objectives [...]

Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.

March 16, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]

The forthcoming Ukrainian housing scheme – things to think about.

March 14, 2022 // 4 Comments

This blog post was written by J who is a barrister. The media were on Sunday 13.3.22 reporting that the government are going to launch an extra-statutory scheme on Monday [...]

More evidence of incompetence emerges at the Council

March 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

Updated 14/03/22 – The Council have now placed the right document in the right location. One has to admit there are times when Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

A dozen Folkestone & Hythe Residents step forward to help Ukrainian refugees. Can you help?

March 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated 15:15 – 13/03/22 Compassionate people from Dungeness, New Romney, St Mary’s Bay, Hythe, Folkestone, Lyminge, and Stelling Minnis, have already stepped [...]

Do you have space for Ukrainian refugees…

March 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

If people wish to host a refugee from the Ukraine, and we understand not everyone can help, but if you have room, there is Refugee At Home [...]

More Russians investing in our district, but legitimately so.

March 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

It has to be said. It has to be made clear, spelt out explicitly. Not all Russians are bad. Those who live among us are no doubt just as horrified at the events in the [...]

I am strong, I am Invincible, I am woman

March 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

One hundred and nine years ago, Emily Wilding Davison, died under the hooves of the king’s horse, at the Epsom Derby. She was a member of the Suffragette Movement. The [...]

Council spends £6m on temporary staff and costs are still rising

March 6, 2022 // 3 Comments

In four out of the last six years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent more than a million pounds on employing temporary staff. Between April 2016 and Dec [...]

KCC Pension Fund fuelling Putin’s War Machine, but they’re trying to divest.

March 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Before we get to Kent County Council, the people of Kent should be aware that vast sums of Russian money has flowed and continues to flow through hundreds of companies [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Yet more c*ck ups by the council

March 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council tendered two contracts for masterplanning for Otterpool Park, where the Council wish to build up to 10,000 homes over 30 years. Both [...]

Part 2 – Princess Royal ‘evidence of deliberate neglect’ emerges

March 1, 2022 // 6 Comments

The Outline Demolition Plan prepared by Harding Bond, dated 10th August 2016 and referred to in the Fairhurst Report in the latest application 22/0109/FH to demolish the [...]

The Princess Royal – Folkestone imminent demolition would be a criminal offence, according to Historic England

February 27, 2022 // 4 Comments

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And that is exactly what companies solely owned by Sir Roger Michael De Haan (pictured) have done. On the 27 May, 2015, [...]

White Lion Pub – Cheriton: Demolition or Restoration?

February 25, 2022 // 6 Comments

On September 3, 2017, we wrote about the White Lion Pub in Cheriton. At that time, the ownership of the building belonged to Kent County Homes Ltd, which in turn was owned [...]

Otterpool Park hasn’t cost anything says Cllr David Monk

February 24, 2022 // 9 Comments

More lies again in the Council Chamber last night at full Council, and this time by Cllr David Drury Monk (Con) – the Occupational Therapist – and leader of [...]

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