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Temporary Accommodation Costs Hit Record High at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Passing £1m

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s spending on temporary accommodation has now crossed £1,052,870 in the current financial year, according to the council’s [...]

Kent MPs’ IPSA spending league table 2024–25: who claimed the most and least (total office, staffing, accommodation and travel costs)

December 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent and Medway’s MPs claimed £3,591,044.17 in parliamentary staffing and “business costs” in the 2024–25 financial year (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025), according [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Plan to Cut Temporary Accommodation Costs

October 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Cabinet backs a £5m plan to buy 20 council-owned homes for temporary accommodation and temporarily switch up to 20 existing council properties — as usage has doubled from [...]

Lydd Playground Swing Failures Caused by Vandalism, Says Safety Report

May 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

A series of mysterious swing failures at The Rype Play Area in Lydd has been traced to deliberate misuse rather than any manufacturing defect, according to a new report by a [...]

‘Stop the Boats, Stop the Waste’: How Reform UK Took Control in Kent

May 12, 2025 // 2 Comments

Kent, with its chalk cliffs and close proximity to Calais, has become Britain’s symbolic and logistical frontline in the ongoing small boat migration crisis. Since 2018, [...]

Cllr Rebecca Shoob’s Statement on Housing Energy Efficiency: A Closer Look

March 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

At the full council meeting on 26 February, Cllr Rebecca Shoob (Green), Cabinet Member for Housing (pictured) , provided an update on the Council’s progress in improving [...]

Princes Parade: What did they know and when did they know it?

February 10, 2024 // 2 Comments

What did they know and when did they know it? It turns out Folkestone & Hythe District Council knew quite a lot. They withheld it from Cllrs and residents alike. This is [...]

Part 3: Kent County Council’s special-education system is on its knees

July 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

No-one can claim we are short of evidence that support for children with Special Education Needs & Disabilities needs a radical overhaul. It is now very clear to everyone [...]

Part 42: Princes Parade – further evidence of incompetence by Council

February 6, 2023 // 2 Comments

It never rains around here it just comes pouring down, says Mark Knopfler on the song It Never Rains, from the Love Over Gold album. And after today’s installment of a [...]

Princes Parade Update: Are the 3 Options for Princes Parade based on engineered data?

December 7, 2022 // 5 Comments

We are aware Folkestone & Hythe District Council have placed Report Number C/22/73, into the public domain. The report sets out the three options for the future of the [...]

Princes Parade: Council recommend pausing current spending on project.

October 24, 2022 // 3 Comments

The Council have announced that a revised budget for Princes Parade in the order of some £47 to 49m is needed to deliver the project (£45.3m + £1.4m + 3% to 5% [...]

Inflation & Interest Rates have profound knock on effects to Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

October 21, 2022 // 1 Comment

For anybody who has been living on another planet, it is clear the recent events at national level have had a major impact on the lives of individuals, companies and local [...]

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 [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council could cut millions from its costs without cutting services

March 4, 2021 // 6 Comments

In Oct 2020, Folkestone & Hythe District Council caused dismay among local residents by announcing it would consider spending millions on a new office at Otterpool Park. [...]

Grand residents win costs award against their Landlord

July 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

Hallam Estates ‘unreasonable conduct … was of such seriousness and gravity…..” In yet another defeat, Hallam Estates Ltd, the freeholder of the Grand, were ordered by [...]

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 Grand History

December 12, 2018 // 5 Comments

Between April 1981 and September 1981 the residents of the Grand made six written requests for a summary of costs for service charges to Michael Stainer (pictured circa [...]

Kent MP Costs For 2017/18

November 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]

KCC’s Foreign travel: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

July 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

On July 14 last year we informed you that officers of KCC had visited the following 13 countries: New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Moldova, [...]

Fit for purpose? You decide.

March 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

Eight Cllrs involved in the Little Densole Farm Judicial Review who voted irrationally and caused Shepway District Council having to pay £22,750 in costs for the Judicial [...]

Shepway Libraries: No Wealth Required.

May 14, 2017 // 3 Comments

Libraries are invaluable; they offer endless fact and fiction almost entirely for free – no wealth required. Libraries are one of the most vital aspects of our [...]

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