Cozumel Estates Limited

Council needs to borrow £88 million to push forward projects, but fail to explain from where the money will come

February 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

According to data released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [DLHC] the amount of borrowing by Folkestone & Hythe District Council had been [...]

Otterpool Park Update: It’s Official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Now Own The Racecourse

July 3, 2020 // 2 Comments

Updated: 26/10/20 @12:40 It’s official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council now own Folkestone racecourse, according to the land registry. The deal has taken close [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council set up two new companies to deliver the project and land registry docs show deal to buy racecourse still not completed.

April 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set up two companies which will look after the delivery of the 10,000 homes Otterpool Park development. The first company [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Govt award £580,000 of funding for Otterpool Park

January 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

£580,000 worth of government cash has been allocated to deliver up to 10,000 homes at Otterpool Park, the Government have announced this morning. This fresh cash, announced [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Offer £25 million to purchase Racecourse from Reuben Brothers

January 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Make £26 million Offer To Buy Reuben Brothers Land

January 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council Corporate Director for Place and Commercial – John Bunnett (pictured), was in Nov 2019 given the green light to begin [...]

Otterpool Park update: Council spends £5.1 million on property in 2019

December 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

At the annual MIPIM property conference in Cannes in March of this year, the Department for International Trade (DIT) revealed the investment opportunity – Otterpool [...]

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. [...]

Otterpool Park Update

August 29, 2019 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council since 2015 have purchased in excess of £30 million pounds worth of property. Some of it at their Otterpool Park development between [...]

“Confused.com”

April 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

I am confused. The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party have stated on the record that their policy towards Princes Parade & Otterpool Park is: Labour are opposed to the [...]

Otterpool Park: Another significant data breach?

March 21, 2019 // 5 Comments

In the planning application Y19/0257/FH – Otterpool Park the document – Statement Of Community Involvement – has been submitted. At page 9 of the document [...]

Otterpool Park Update:

February 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

In early December 2018 we informed you the Folkestone & Hythe District Council purchased The Willows within the Otterpool Park Boundary, on the A20 between Barrow Hill [...]

Otterpool Park to come before planning by end of February

February 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

Cllr David Monk (pictured) at this evening’s full council – 20th Feb 2019 – announced that an outline planning application for 8,500 homes to be constructed [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council have signed two option to purchase land agreements with Sellindge farmers & Price Brothers signed option with Cozumel Estates.

September 27, 2018 // 3 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Updated 17:30 Sat 29th Sept The Shepwayvox Team can reveal that Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have signed two option to purchase agreements [...]

Otterpool Park update – Oh the irony.

March 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

On Thursday September 14th 2017 at 9.30am, 17 people gathered at 2 Marsham St London, the home of the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The 17 [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.

February 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park Update.

January 28, 2018 // 3 Comments

Shepway District Council in report C-17-76 – Delivering Otterpool Park – make it clear at Para 1.3 that there is now a 3rd major party interested in securing [...]

Update on Otterpool Park

November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Warwick Smith in The Guardian sets out that Companies “don’t give their money away for nothing. There is an understanding (rarely made explicit) that large [...]

How To Investigate Companies.

October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Would you like to learn how to ‘Investigate a Company’? Would you like to learn about Shepway District Council’s company Oportunitas, Cozumel Estates, MF & L Ltd [...]

Otterpool Park Update.

September 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

On the 4th July 2017 Sajid Javid (pictured) Secretary of State for the Department of Communities & Local Government (DCLG) announced, that £2.3 billion of funding via [...]

The Long Read: Cozumel Estates Limited a British Virgin Island Company.

August 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

After more than a 7,000 mile journey and a little over 30 hours in the air to visit the British Virgin Islands (a known offshore tax haven) we can reveal a little more about [...]

“A Sunny Place For Shady People”

July 16, 2017 // 2 Comments

Exclusive: Shepway District Councillors and officers will be in attendance at MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier) in March 2018. It is an [...]

Otterpool Park Update

March 19, 2017 // 3 Comments

Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd , formerly Hyder Consulting (UK) Ltd are the Masterplanning and Project Management Team chosen to bring together the masterplan for Otterpool [...]

Abuse of Power by Shepway District Council. You decide.

March 3, 2017 // 2 Comments

On Tuesday March 7th Shepway District Council’s elected Cabinet will convene to discuss Otterpool Park behind closed doors. We believe that SDC are acting beyond [...]

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