Climate & Ecological Emergency motion was not referred to committee or priced,
How much has it cost? Well the honest answer is nobody knows, as it was never priced. Nor did the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee discuss the best way [...]
Cllr Lesley Whybrow
In the beginning nine Cabinet Members created the £40 million Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco
On July 22nd 2020, the Cabinet of Folkestone & Hythe District Council met to discuss and award the new waste contract. Agenda Item 28 and 29 (The Waste Project 2021 [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Cllr Jim Martin “Shocked” Council appoint Tibbalds using a waiver for phase 1 of the Otterpool Park, at a cost of £120,000.
At a behind closed doors meeting of the Otterpool Working Group in April, an officer of the Council let slip that Tibbalds had been appointed as consultants to prepare [...]
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 [...]
Santa Monk’s £125 million Xmas Present
Cllr David Drury Monk (Con), or rather Santa Monk as he was christened by Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), has promised to build a further 900 Council homes on top of the the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Significant Errors & Non Compliance with GDPR
Recently Folkestone & Hythe District Council compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) was audited by the East Kent Audit Partnership (EKAP) and [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Ten Cllrs Champion High Quality Outcomes for Reuben Brothers & Council
Ten district Cllrs from all parties met behind closed doors at the inaugural Otterpool Park Working Group (OPWG), on the 7th Oct 2019. They were there to discuss how they [...]
Climate Change: Cllrs Will Be On The Wrong Side of History
On Monday we wrote about the Otterpool Park working group meeting behind closed doors. Later that day the Shepway Green Party (SGP) released a statement which reads: [...]
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are misleading elected Cllrs and the public.
It is not just Cllrs who believe they have been misled at the very least by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. From published evidence they are also misleading the [...]
Pollution levels on the rise across more than half of areas measured by Folkestone & Hythe District.
Mums are amazing! They have given each of us our lives, they carried us, cared for us and sustained us throughout the nine months we tend to spend in their womb. New research [...]
Coming Soon: Proposals for more money for Otterpool Park acquisitions, proposals to purchase Ship Street Gasworks and an EKH tenant consultation.
Coming soon to the council chamber – 16th Oct – are proposals and recommendations to be put to Cabinet. These proposals are to allow further spending on land [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council take one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind by declaring Climate & Ecological Emergency
A climate and ecological emergency has been declared by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. Last night, Wednesday 24th July at full Council a motion tabled by Cllr [...]