Otterpool Park Update: Council project £193 million profit for Otterpool
In a 54 page document, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set out the Draft – Otterpool Park Business Plan for discussion by the Overview & Scrutiny [...]
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He’s a very naughty boy!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 [...]
Is Cllr Clive Goddard committing a criminal offence?
It is simple, so so simple yet he has failed to comply. A discosable pecuniary interest (DPI) is set out in Chapter 7 of the Localism Act 2011 and in the secondary [...]
The Long Read: The Strange Tale of the Folkestone Leas Lift Company CIC
It is unlikely many readers will have missed the publicity announcing that the Leas Lift booking office has once again opened its doors, albeit as a café. The Folkestone [...]
Images Emerge of Cllr Clive Goddard Working on RVH Site owned by Leo Griggs.
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 [...]
FHDC pass Local Plan and Central Govt propose 1043 homes per year for our district.
So it’s done. After five years and three public consultations, Folkestone & Hythe District Council passed its Places and Policies Local Plan (Local Plan) at an [...]
Council fail to declare they were to buy 37 properties on Royal Victoria Hospital site owned by Leo Griggs
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 [...]
Kingston Homes want to develop The land on the north side of Station Rd, Hythe, Kent
Kingston Homes have made public a document seeking consultation with the public (As of Aug 2020) for the development of the land on the north side of Station Road, Hythe, [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes
£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Land Assemby for Otterpool Park cost £37.7 million to date
On the 4th Feb 2020 it was announced Cllr Ian Meyers (UKIP) had stepped down from his Cabinet position “to allow him more time to care for family members.” [...]
Something is Rotten in the District of Folkestone & Hythe
There’s more to this than meets the eye. Yes the facts surrounding the Leo Griggs Royal Victoria Site gets murkier. Not only has the site been closed by the Health [...]