David Wimble

Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.

March 16, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]

More evidence of incompetence emerges at the Council

March 13, 2022 // 3 Comments

Updated 14/03/22 – The Council have now placed the right document in the right location. One has to admit there are times when Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

£250,000 of Green Cash to be given away by the Council to help the environment

February 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet is being asked to agree approval to establish a £250,000 fund to provide grants to support local businesses to improve their [...]

Wimble & Field’s new party already breaking data protection law

November 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 12:10 07/11/21 David Wimble & Ray Field have set up a new party in the district. The Laurel & Hardy of local politics have chosen to call their party [...]

Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.

September 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]

Council accidentally release Covid Grant data

September 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]

Ain’t no rest for the wicked

July 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

Many of you already know Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest council tax of all Kent local authorities for the last eighteen years. Council tax is [...]

Cllrs claim more allowances in 2020/21 than 2019/20

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

In the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid hit, when all Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors couldn’t travel to conferences and claim subsistence and other [...]

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 [...]

The local developer being helped along by the public purse

May 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]

“Our council is broken at best” says ePetition campaigner

April 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Almost twenty years after our Council introduced a Cabinet system in the year 2000, – Cllr Tim Prater on the 25th Sept 2019, put forward the following motion for the [...]

“Our House is still on fire” – Climate & Ecological Working Group continue to hide Environmental Information behind closed doors.

March 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

On Thursday 18th March, the Climate & Ecological Working Group will meet behind closed doors to discuss matters which affect our environment. It will be chaired by Cllr L [...]

FHDC look set to have highest Council Tax in Kent for eighteenth year in a row

February 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 24 February 2021, Report A/20/08 will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Full Council at 7pm. This report concludes the budget setting process for [...]

Yet Another Visionary Plan for Folkestone Town Centre

February 1, 2021 // 3 Comments

Following the announcement of a “visionary” Place Plan in October 2020, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have just revealed that We Made That LLP have been awarded [...]

A sequel with a burger by the sea.

December 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

So three applications before the planning committee tonight Dec 15th. One is a sequel, another is for a well know burger chain and last is an application by a local Tory [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning department IS bad for your health.

November 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

Planning and Planning Decisions have long excited passions, so much so that one applicant who failed to get permission from Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

He’s a very naughty boy!

November 23, 2020 // 6 Comments

Updated 08:20 25/11/20 And who is a very naughty boy… yep it’s Leo Livingston Griggs (pictured). The local Tory party donor has like others fallen foul of GDPR, [...]

The Long Read: Is our heritage for ransom?

September 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Updated 03/10/20 @9:48 After a decade of neglect and uncertainty and a 5-year campaign by Friends of the Leas Pavilion (FLP), the Leas Pavilion is finally looking set to be [...]

Cllr Goddard Recuses Himself & Other Planning Matters

September 23, 2020 // 2 Comments

So, Cllr Clive Goddard, Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe Planning Committee recused himself and did not vote on either of the planning applications related to the Royal [...]

Images Emerge of Cllr Clive Goddard Working on RVH Site owned by Leo Griggs.

September 18, 2020 // 8 Comments

Updated 18:12 – 18/09/20 Images have emerged of Cllr Clive Goddard – the Chairman of the Planning Committee at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, working on [...]

Council fail to declare they were to buy 37 properties on Royal Victoria Hospital site owned by Leo Griggs

September 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

Updated 11.35am 9/09/2020 So it’s just as we said way back on Nov 28th 2018: We also understand from well placed council sources, the Council’s company Oportunitas [...]

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 pay officers to Escape the Room in Canterbury & Bath

July 31, 2020 // 2 Comments

While Cllr David Monk was sweating on a hot lockdown day at his favourite lake; and Cllr David Wimble was cooling his heels at the local cop shop, the finance department was [...]

Cllr David Wimble interviewed under caution for alleged electoral violations

July 28, 2020 // 1 Comment

On Monday the 21st Oct, 2019, Cllr David Wimble (Ind) attended Folkestone Police Station where he was interviewed under caution in respect of allegations of committing [...]

Cllr David Wimble Is Committing Another Criminal Offence

July 25, 2020 // 3 Comments

Cllr David Wimble, Cabinet Member for the District Economy for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, is a man who’s never far away from controversy. He has in the [...]

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