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Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Site had visit from No 10’s Cabinet Secretary

January 11, 2022 // 2 Comments

There have been further developments at Otterpool Park where the council wish to build up to 10,000 homes at a cost of £2.9bn, making a conservative profit of £193m. [...]

Council’s housing target failure gives hope for environment before the progress of concrete continues

December 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council [previously Shepway] has failed to meet its annual housing requirement target for ten of the past fourteen years. This a 71% failure [...]

The planning loophole used so frequently by Sir Roger’s companies looks set to be closed

December 5, 2021 // 2 Comments

Gareth Bacon MP for Orpington, sought leave to bring in a Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning [...]

Whistleblowers claim up to 25% of KCC Social Workers are alcoholics.

December 3, 2021 // 10 Comments

This is a guest post We are three senior social workers who work for Kent County Council. We have in excess of fifty years experience within our profession. We have come to [...]

Can you trust this man?

November 25, 2021 // 9 Comments

As you know Cllr David Monk – Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council – has got a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist and Director of K B [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent

November 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]

Cllr David Monk has a new occupation

November 19, 2021 // 5 Comments

He’s been a double glazing salesman, a Cllr since 1995; and now he has a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist, since July 2021. Yes, Cllr David Drury Monk, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Costs rise to £66 million and not a single house built.

November 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it [...]

NHS patients waiting 9-10 hours at Kent Hospitals in back of ambulances SECamb reveals

November 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Patients conveyed to Kent Hospitals by South East Coast Ambulance Services [SECamb] have been waiting 9-10 hours in the back of ambulances before they could be seen in [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

Educashan, Educashan, Educashan

November 14, 2021 // 3 Comments

Something half sensible came out of last week’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, who meet on the 9 Nov. The Chairwoman of the committee, Cllr Michelle Keutinius (Lab) [...]

Russian Money? Mark Quinn & Ashford International Studios

November 12, 2021 // 7 Comments

It took just under three and a half hours for Ashford Borough Council to decide on the planning application for Ashford International Studios (pictured), in April 2020, which [...]

Wimble & Field’s new party already breaking data protection law

November 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 12:10 07/11/21 David Wimble & Ray Field have set up a new party in the district. The Laurel & Hardy of local politics have chosen to call their party [...]

Rural & Affluent Areas of Folkestone & Hythe District see rise in Child Poverty

November 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

The release of the data by the DWP & HMRC for the number of children living in relative & absolute low income families (child poverty), have for the year end (31 [...]

Should councillors have to tell us if they are Masons?

October 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 31/10/21 @ 06:00am It’s often seen as a shadowy world of secret handshakes, favours for friends and strange initiation ceremonies – but should we be [...]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity in Folkestone & Hythe District Council.

October 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

One does not have to do anything to make Folkestone & Hythe District Council look stupid or incompetent, they are quite capable of doing that all on their own. For those [...]

Nearly One in Four Council Meetings held behind closed doors

October 27, 2021 // 2 Comments

Since the local elections of May 2019, which ushered in 13 Tory Cllrs, 6 Labour Cllrs (one later became an Independent) 6 Green Cllrs and 2 Lib Dem Cllrs, 2 UKIP Cllrs [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Lib Dems propose new location for playground, but fail to explain costs of remediation.

October 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats are now proposing the disused railyway line (pictured); which runs from Warren Rd, Folkestone (alongside Tram Rd) to Rocksalt as [...]

Biggins Wood receives £1.15 Grant funding but questions remain

October 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

Dr Susan Priest said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was “contaminated“. Andy Jarrett said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was [...]

Part 1 Don’t FCUK with Ailish Erskine

October 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

Don’t fcuk with Ailish Erskine or Mrs Jane Clark (Owner of Saltwood Castle). Both of these women have been bent but never broken, which has only served to make them [...]

Problems abound for Meritum domiciliary care company

October 18, 2021 // 5 Comments

Since we last last wrote about overcharging by a domiciliary care company – Meritum Intergrated Care LLP, there have been some further developments which customers [...]

Garden Waste rebate set at a tenner and you won’t see a penny of it

October 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

The council rebate to all subscribers of the garden waste service will be £9.70, according to a report being sent to Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet [...]

Let The Children Play

October 10, 2021 // 7 Comments

Public playgrounds are an iconic symbol of childhood. The first playgrounds were a German invention built to teach children how to play. 1859 saw the first British playground [...]

Development still not connected to sewage system nine years after being informed by Southern Water there was not enough capacity.

October 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

A Shepway Vox Team Investigation has discovered that as of today 05/10/21, according to Southern Water, the development known as Shoreline (Where the land meets the Sea) or [...]

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