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Kent Proposes £1.78 Billion Elderly Care Contract Over 8 Years Amid Rising Nursing Demand

July 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council is preparing to rewrite the rules on how it provides care home placements for older people in a move that could cost up to £1.78 billion over eight years [...]

Folkestone £15.4m Town Centre Contract Sparks Transparency Concerns Over Tender Timeline

May 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is pushing ahead with a £19.8 million government-funded regeneration programme intended to revitalise key areas of the town centre. [...]

Where Is the Contract? Scrutiny Intensifies as ‘Folkestone: A Brighter Future’ Regeneration Scheme Set to Begin Without Public Record

April 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

With just days to go before diggers are due to break ground on the £20m flagship Folkestone: A Brighter Future regeneration scheme, serious questions are mounting over the [...]

Part 2: The Peculiar Case of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Procurement Practices

February 20, 2025 // 2 Comments

Updated 08:00 – 21/02/25 When examining the payment data for suppliers where contracts began before they were officially awarded, numerous anomalies emerge. These [...]

Part 2 Ross House: Is this another dodgy £1m contract?

June 26, 2023 // 2 Comments

Ever since the Council bought Ross House for £1.8m, in April 2018, it has eaten money and had so many issues, the 16 flats inside the building are now probably the most [...]

In last 3 years Council spends £24.6m than it received in income

April 22, 2023 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts show they paid out £24,6m than they received in income over the last three years. Given what we know about missing [...]

Princes Parade: Financial mismanagement of Faithful & Gould contract

February 28, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 6 March @ 07:40am According to the Council’s procurement guide under Value for Money it states: Value for money is a balance of quality, price and delivery and [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine

April 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Yet more c*ck ups by the council

March 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council tendered two contracts for masterplanning for Otterpool Park, where the Council wish to build up to 10,000 homes over 30 years. Both [...]

Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.

September 9, 2021 // 2 Comments

No they didn’t see it. Yes they should have seen it, but it was for some inexplicable reason withheld from them. How do the Councillors who sit on the Task & Finish [...]

Controversial devloper Mark Quinn wins £140,000 contract to fit out Connect 38

July 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

Quinn Estates Ltd owned by controversial developer Mark Quinn has been awarded a £140,000 contract by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to fit out the first floor and [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco

June 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

It’s a £40 million pound fiasco. For the second time in less than six weeks Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been forced to apologise for the poor service [...]

East Kent Councils fail to recoup £1.5 million from P & R

September 12, 2020 // 5 Comments

Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. Senior officers of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet councils have discovered they can bluster [...]

C**k up, Conspiracy or Incompetence?

July 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

So is it a cock up, conspiracy or incompetence? We simply do not know, but we’ll let you judge from the evidence we put before you. All the evidence is in the public [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council grant Planning Permission for Princes Parade

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Yesterday evening we received the follow news from the Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Save Princes Parade Group. “Regrettably I have to inform you that today [...]

P & R could lose £6.3 million pound contract with Folkestone & Hythe District Council?

December 19, 2018 // 5 Comments

Exclusive Back in May, then in June and October of this year we made it clear there were issues with the P & R Gas Servicing & Heating Installation contract. In an [...]

Issues with East Kent Housing’s P & R boiler contract?

October 17, 2018 // 6 Comments

P & R’ Installation Co Ltd (P & R) £27 million pound contract managed by East Kent Housing for central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and hot water repair [...]

Part 2: P & R Installation Company Ltd

June 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

A month ago we brought you a Long Read blog about P & R and how badly they were performing in relation to the £27 milllion pound central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and [...]

Part 2: M & R Refurbishments Ltd.

June 21, 2018 // 2 Comments

In our first post about M& R Refurbishment Ltd (M & R), we informed you there had been allegations of overcharging and potential fraud by M & R on the external [...]

KCC’s 11 PFI School Contracts

March 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council have 14 Private Finance Intiative (PFI) Contracts on their books. 11 of them are schools. Who owns these schools, because it is not KCC, they just stump [...]

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