development

Council award £2.5 million pound contract to BAM Construction to begin development of Princes Parade Liesure Centre

February 20, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 13th Nov 2019, the Princes Parade Business Plan went before Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet. The Business Plan was set out in Report Number [...]

Otterpool Park & Quinn Estates interest in Sellindge grows

February 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

Plans to progress Otterpool Park to a revised planning application has been underway for quite some time. As revealed by the bloggers at slurry.org.uk last [...]

Folkestone Seafront Development gets curiouser and curiouser says Alice

January 29, 2021 // 8 Comments

Updated 05/02/21 07:10am Here’s a curious thing. The reserved matters planning application for the first building (Plot B) of the Folkestone Seafront Development [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council envisage £193m profit.

January 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

Updated @18:50 13/01/21 The Council have released the Business Plan for its Otterpool Park Garden Town project, where up to 8,500 homes might be built, if planning permission [...]

Southern Way: Another developer says he’s poor and can’t afford affordable housing

January 3, 2021 // 2 Comments

It is quite possible that Folkestone & Hythe District Council are learning from their mistakes, as they have again reopened a planning consultation for Southern Way [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Is It For Profit?

December 2, 2020 // 4 Comments

The fundamentals of using a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) to deliver Otterpool, is to make it tax efficient and allow the greatest return to to the council for building [...]

The Long Read: 52-54 Guildhall Street and other tales of “Technical Issues”

November 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

Following our ‘more tales of the unexpected’ piece in September, which briefly mentioned the gap in the streetscape at 52-54 Guildhall Street owned by Brian James Parry [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Draft Otterpool Park Business Plan raises more questions than it answers

November 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Draft – Otterpool Park Business Plan is a very badly assembled document. It is a low quality document for such a high-value project (£2.7 billon). The person [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council project £193 million profit for Otterpool

November 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

In a 54 page document, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set out the Draft – Otterpool Park Business Plan for discussion by the Overview & Scrutiny [...]

He’s a very naughty boy!

November 23, 2020 // 6 Comments

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

Hidden Regeneration Plan for Folkestone Town Centre Revealed

November 17, 2020 // 5 Comments

Updated @ 09:57am When Folkestone & Hythe District Council announced a fast-tracked consultation on the regeneration of Folkestone Town Centre following the announcement [...]

Inheritance, not work, will become the main route for home ownership in our district

November 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

In early January 2018, LUC published the Proposed Submission Sustainability Appraisal Report – Non-Technical Summary – for Folkestone & Hythe District Council. At [...]

Tontine Street: Further issues emerge with planning application

November 9, 2020 // 3 Comments

The first law of holes states: “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging“. Unfortunately, Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning department do not [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Elephant in the Room

November 3, 2020 // 4 Comments

The Otterpool Park Financial Viability Assessment (VA) assumes the development to be 100% debt financed. So having taken the time to look at the VA, and also get the views of [...]

Planning permission for 86-88 Tontine Street was unlawful

October 20, 2020 // 10 Comments

Last night (20th Oct) six Cllrs stuck two fingers up to the courts, as did planning officers of Folkestone & Hythe District Council. Cllrs considered planning application [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Priest Under Pressure

October 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

The courts say they must release it. The Information Upper Tier tribunal say they must release it. But still Folkestone & Hythe District Council, led by Dr Susan Priest, [...]

Thousands of citizen scientists looking to the heavens to measure light pollution

October 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

In February 2020, The Campaign to Protect Rural England asked for volunteer ‘citizen scientists’ to look to the skies and count stars within the Orion constellation in [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Release the unredacted Viability Assessment

October 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving residents and other stakeholders in the [...]

No Go or Go decision to be made in Jan 2021 on new Civic Centre at Otterpool Park

October 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Chief Exec of Folkestone & Hythe District Council – Dr Susan Priest, made it clear that the discussion around a new civic centre at Otterpool Park was to give [...]

Cllrs to consider potential new civic centre at Otterpool Park

October 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

Updated 06/10/20 @14:10 Location, Location, Location and the location for a potential new civic centre at Otterpool Park is to be considered by Cllrs on the Overview & [...]

The Long Read: The Leas Pavillion – The Way Forward

October 4, 2020 // 9 Comments

Following on from “The Long Read: Is our Heritage for Ransom?” we, the Friends of the Leas Pavilion, would like to let people see how things are from our point of view [...]

Otterpool Park Update: More property purchased

September 27, 2020 // 1 Comment

While the covid-19 virus has risen and fallen and risen again, those charged with keeping Otterpool Park Garden Town – where up to 10,000 homes may be built if planning [...]

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 [...]

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