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Council appoint consultant to market Ship Street site, to find suitable development partner

April 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

A flagship plan to transform Folkestone’s long-derelict Ship Street gasworks into new housing is under intense scrutiny amid mounting costs and protracted delays. An [...]

Council sell Biggins Wood land for £4.5m to Wickhambreaux Developments Ltd

January 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

After eight years it has been sold for £4,518,000, according to the land registry. The site was purchased in Dec 2016, by the Council, under urgency powers, by the now Chief [...]

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council buy Ship Street site twice

April 15, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 17/04/21 @08:42 On the 20th October 2019, Kentonline Folkestone section declared that Folkestone & Hythe District Council had bought the former Gasworks site at [...]

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 [...]

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