Biggins Wood

Have the Council found a Magic Money Tree for their five development projects?

January 24, 2022 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council five development projects, are all subject to rising inflation, higher borrowing costs, and supply chain issues, which means costs [...]

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 [...]

Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.

April 21, 2021 // 5 Comments

Across the Garden of England hundreds of landfill sites containing dangerous, hazardous and toxic waste, are according to a remediation consultant of 35 years, “time [...]

John “Buy Me A Car” Bunnett

January 28, 2020 // 16 Comments

John Bunnett (pictured) is currently Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Corporate Director for Otterpool Park. He is the man who is able to spend the £100 [...]

Biggins Wood: Hollow Promises

January 7, 2020 // 4 Comments

Four years on since the Council purchased the Biggins Wood site, not a single house has been built on the site. The Council have, we believe, bought a pig in a poke. On the [...]

Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.

December 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]

A Victory for the Public Interest.

October 31, 2018 // 6 Comments

EXCLUSIVE Our public face sent his Environmental Information Request to the Council on the 6th Jan 2017. Yesterday 31st Oct 2018, the First Tier Tribunal (General [...]

SDC draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan open for comments

February 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

So the draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan local is now open for you to comment on (closes March 5th 2018). Shepway District Council’s (SDC) draft [...]

Biggins Wood, Cheriton: Planning Application Y17/0888/SH

October 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

Shepway District Council have submitted Planning Application Y17-0888-SH which is linked to planning application Y13/0024/SH to erect 49 industrial units (4562 sqm) and 2 [...]

Information Is Born Free, But Everywhere Is In Chains.

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Information is born free, but everywhere is in chains. On the 15th Dec 2016 Dr Susan Priest,(pictured) Corporate Director at Shepway District Council (SDC) used urgency [...]

Risks Which Cannot Be Sensibly Ignored.

June 18, 2017 // 3 Comments

Risk is a clear and present danger. There is a risk that Shepway District Council (sdc) have bought a pig in a poke with regards to Biggins Wood (Cheriton) There is a risk [...]

The Long Read: Biggins Wood Site Part 2 – Profit Before Risk?

June 16, 2017 // 2 Comments

At full council on Wednesday 14th June 2017, Cllr Mary Lawes (pictured) asked the following question to Cllr Clive Goddard, Chairman of the Planning & Licensing Committee [...]

SDC pay £1.5 Million to a Convicted Criminal for 10 Acres of Land.

February 25, 2017 // 5 Comments

Adrian Kirby (Pictured) a former UK waste disposal operator and onetime member of the prestigious Guards Polo Club who illegally conspired to spy on his environmental [...]

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