Bronze Age Burial Site Discovered at Sellindge Housing Development
Sellindge development unearths Bronze Age burial mounds – planners vow to preserve them in a new public park In late 2016, a local developer quietly began laying the [...]
Archaeology
Jenners Planning Application will remove more than just trees
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 [...]
Lethal levels of arsenic present on former Officers Mess Aerodrome Road Hawkinge site.
Updated: 01/04/21 @20:27 Land at the Former Officers Mess, Elvington Lane, Aerodrome Road Hawkinge purchased by Pentland Homes on 01/12/2020 for £2.5 million, according to [...]
Southern Way: Another developer says he’s poor and can’t afford affordable housing
It is quite possible that Folkestone & Hythe District Council are learning from their mistakes, as they have again reopened a planning consultation for Southern Way [...]
The Long Read: 52-54 Guildhall Street and other tales of “Technical Issues”
Following our ‘more tales of the unexpected’ piece in September, which briefly mentioned the gap in the streetscape at 52-54 Guildhall Street owned by Brian James Parry [...]
Cheriton Sports Ground: Running on Water?
You may remember an application being submitted by Folkestone Running Club during Christmas 2018 to build a running track on Cheriton Sports Ground. Running Track – [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Archaeology and a conflict of interests.
The outline planning application for Otterpool Park is “very likely” to be put forward in January 2019, according to a senior Council officer. Meanwhile on the [...]