Cllr Tim Prater

Folkestone & Hythe Council Budget: Council Tax Rise, Reserves Drawdown and Debt Repayment Shake-Up

February 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s budget debate yesterday evening didn’t hinge on a big, obvious “cuts list”. It hinged on something far less [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre: Cabinet Approves £2.4m Reopening Grant Ahead of Full Council Vote

February 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet has agreed to include a one-off £2.4 million grant aimed at reopening Folkestone Sports Centre and cutting its future [...]

FOLCA Folkestone: FOLCA 1 Saved for Retail-and-Flats, Sale Funds FOLCA 2 Medical Centre

February 11, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone’s long-stalled FOLCA project has entered its most consequential phase yet: FOLCA 1 is being sold, FOLCA 2 is being refurbished, and councillors are now publicly [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax Rise Explained: Where the Money Goes and What It Means for Local Services

January 14, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has begun the annual civic tradition of explaining why everything costs more, while promising not to make it feel like it does. Last [...]

FHDC Budget 2026/27: £6m Hythe Pool Spend, Grant Cliff-Edges and Hidden Costs for Residents

January 8, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) is proposing a budget that pours millions into leisure facilities – including a £6 million refurbishment of Hythe Swimming [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Budget Half-Time Score: Council Tax, Reserves and Capital Borrowing Explained

November 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Six months after councillors approved this year’s budget on 26 February 2025, new second-quarter (Q2) monitoring reports show a familiar picture at Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: What the Cabinet Portfolio Reports Reveal

September 24, 2025 // 1 Comment

At each Full Council, Folkestone & Hythe District Council follows its usual rhythm: every Cabinet Member delivers a brief, seamless update on their portfolio. The set for [...]

Council Fails Own Rules: £81,974 Paid to Three Contractors with No Public Contract Record

September 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Part 10 of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Constitution is explicit: “All contracts of a value of £5,000 or more are to be included on the Council’s [...]

Ship Street 70 Years of Nothing Much: Folkestone’s Most Patient Plot Finally Seeks a Future

July 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

Stand on the lip of Ship Street and look south: a 1.56‑hectare rectangle, scooped out like a giant wasp bite, dropping a vertiginous twelve metres towards the railway. Once [...]

Reform UK Under Fire: Kent Councillors Use Transparency Law to Hide Already-Public Addresses

June 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

Across Kent, voters expect honesty, accountability and transparency from their elected representatives. But an investigation by The Shepway Vox Team reveals a disturbing [...]

In the beginning nine Cabinet Members created the £40 million Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco

July 24, 2021 // 8 Comments

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 [...]

Liberal Democrats forget they are responsible for residents having Highest Council Tax in Kent

March 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

So on the 24th Feb 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council voted to raise the district part of Council Tax by 1.99%. This means band per band our Council has the [...]

28% of all Households in the district are claiming Council Tax Reduction

August 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

Figures revealed by Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet Member, Tim Prater, make it clear that 28% of chargeable households for Council tax are in receipt of [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes

August 9, 2020 // 9 Comments

£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]

Wheelie Cllr Prater!

July 21, 2020 // 6 Comments

Updated 19:00 23/07/20 Honestly, if we replied to every Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) article, we’d get little done. Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) is claiming victory for a [...]

East Kent Housing “run on servers and software which are NOT compliant with the most basic data safety standards”

May 31, 2020 // 1 Comment

“As I understand it East Kent Housing (EKH) is being run from an unsupported two versions owned, obsolete version of Northgate software which is hosted on servers which [...]

Ross House: Five Fire Risk Assessments And Still Significant Issues Remain

December 27, 2019 // 2 Comments

Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone is home to 43 people. Since Folkestone & Hythe District Council began housing people there in April 2018, five fire risk assessments have [...]

Santa Monk’s £125 million Xmas Present

December 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Council grants itself £100,000,000.

November 21, 2019 // 2 Comments

Updated 19:15 (21/11/19) It took 49 minutes for the request for the facility to draw down £100 million to be debated and finally agreed at last night’s full Council. [...]

A Very Short Planning History of Ross House, Folkestone

November 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

The application Y17/0004/PA was for a change of use of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone CT20 3UJ into 16 flats (4 – 1 Beds and 12 – 2 Beds). The application [...]

Ross House not fire compliant since purchase for £1.8 million in April 2018

November 4, 2019 // 3 Comments

Updated: 08:21 5th Nov 2019 In Feb 2018, two months prior to purchasing Ross House, Folkestone, East Kent Audit Partnership slammed fire safety at East Kent Housing managed [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Ten Cllrs Champion High Quality Outcomes for Reuben Brothers & Council

November 3, 2019 // 6 Comments

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 [...]

Conversion of Ross House “was total shit” and “sub standard” yet Council paid £1.8 million

November 2, 2019 // 3 Comments

Updated 4th Nov 10:35 Cllr Tim Prater has made candid public statements about the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way into 16 flats, owned by the Council since April 2018, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Greens, Labour & Lib Dems failing the people of our district.

September 25, 2019 // 6 Comments

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.

September 22, 2019 // 6 Comments

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 [...]

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