How Princes Parade & Otterpool Park can educate us all.
The Clean Air Act 1993 is an amazing piece of legislation. It’s under utilised by those on our Council, who could use it to much greater effect to educate and inform us [...]
Air quality
Where is the 2020 Air Quality Report?
So the 2019 Air Quality report has been released. This though informs us about the air quality in 2018. However, we ask Folkestone & Hythe District Council, and the [...]
Every Breath We Take
Updated: 10:15 am 26/06/20 Air pollution does NOT discriminate. We all need to breathe. All lives matter. Nobody needs to be saying: “I Can’t Breathe” due to [...]
Folkestone Seafront Development Causes Yet More Controversy
Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Seafront Development has over the years caused a lot of controversy. Cllrs were refused sight of the legal advice the Council had [...]
Why are Cllr Lesley Whybrow & FHDC failing to release air quality data which is relevant to the current pandemic?
High levels of air pollution NO² (Nitrogen Dioxide) is “one of the most important contributors” to deaths from Covid-19, according to research in Europe and the USA. The [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Greens, Labour & Lib Dems failing the people of our district.
A motion is not something you do while sitting on the privy reading the morning paper online via your tablet. No! A motion is a request made by a councillor for an issue [...]
Wood Burning Stoves: Deadly not trendy
Graphic: Breathe Clean Air Less than a year ago (March 2018) a blanket of clean white snow lay heavy across the district, the county and the country and there was little or [...]
The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.
Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]