How much do you love our district?
Rates (read Council Tax) and rats, health and housing, parks and public toilets are all controlled by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. In addition to these areas the [...]
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The most popular site in Britain- Part 3
The land shaded in orange below is owned by Canterbury City Council (CCC). This land is on the south east side of Stuppington Lane, Canterbury. It is a crucial piece of land [...]
Folkestone & Hythe DC to purchase Connect 38 Ashford, Kent
Updated 18:50 Sunday 10th March On Wednesday 13th at 5pm the Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet (F&HDC) will meet at the Civic Centre. Agenda Item 11 & [...]
East Kent Hospital A & Es require improvement
The national target set for patients to be seen in four hours within arrival at A & E departments is 95%. Our Trust – the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District: Where has the £10 million New Homes Bonus Scheme money gone?
The New Homes Bonus Scheme (NHB) introduced by the Coalition Government provides cash for areas that allow new homes to be built in their area (a form of bribery?). [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £1.25 million, a £90 grand contract and registering a right of way.
We revealed in our last Otterpool Park post two days ago, the overall amount of money for the Otterpool Park development will be circa £2.8 billion. It’s nice to [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Financial and health cost revealed
We can reveal today Otterpool Park expenditure and revenue will be in the region of £2.8bn with the Council reputedly making circa £800 million by selling approx 15 [...]
GP waiting times soar across Kent
Patients in some parts of the Kent are three times more likely to have to wait at least a fortnight to see their GP, NHS Digital figures reveal. 22.97% of patients registered [...]
Kent County Council Land Part 2: The most popular site in Britain
In mid Jan we brought you the post Kent County Council Land: The most popular site in Britain in which we informed you that Quinn Estates along with Atlas Partners Group [...]
Kent & Canterbury Hospital: Atlas Partners Group Ltd
Atlas Partners Group Ltd (APG Ltd) are a company who have made their intentions known regarding the land involved in the Kent & Canterbury Super Hospital and the 2000 [...]
Y18/1529/FH – Shepway Close, Folkestone
When it comes to planning in Folkestone & Hythe District, you have to know your history. It begins with Y05/1331/SH – yellow and orange polygons below & [...]
Kent County Council Land: The most popular site in Britain
The land shaded in orange below is owned by Kent County Council. They have owned it since the 19th February 1982. It is situated between the Simon Langton Grammar School for [...]
Save Princes Parade
Thirty five years ago Princes Parade was in the Folkestone & Hythe District Herald newspaper not once but twice. On the 17th Feb 1984 the Herald ran the following [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The first but not the last
Back in Jan of this year, Folkestone & Hythe District Council decided to set aside £3.675 million for land and property acquisition within the boundary of the Otterpool [...]
Royal Victoria Hospital sells for £1.25 million
EXCLUSIVE Back in March 2018, we brought you the post: Do you believe in coincidence? This speculated that a company by the name of RVH Folkestone Limited owned and [...]
The Long Read: Horn Street Stench, Part 2
Since we brought you Part 1 of The Horn Street Stench in early October 2018, more details about raw sewage backing up in toilets and baths and [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council have signed two option to purchase land agreements with Sellindge farmers & Price Brothers signed option with Cozumel Estates.
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 [...]
Smiths Medical – Boundary Rd Hythe
So the Smiths Medical Site, Boundary Rd Hythe; which many of you may know as Portex, sold for £2.1 million on the 15th August 2018 to Rewd Limited, according to the land [...]
Land banking by the 11 largest housebuilders in Kent.
“Buy land,” said Mark Twain. “They’re not making it any more.” An issue we have spoken about before, but all to briefly, is ‘land banking‘. This is best [...]
Development Part 2: Telegraph Road
the other travellers came walking down the track and they never went further and they never went back Mark Knopfler On a warm sunny afternoon, three of the team set of to [...]
Development Part 1: 129 days and counting
When democracy counts most in our council chamber, it is nowhere to be seen, well at least that appears to be the case in the Folkestone & Hythe District Council chamber, [...]
GP Patients numbers set to swell even further.
According to the latest NHS Digital data, 530 patients (12%) still remain on the books of Folkestone East Family Practice; which closed its doors for the final time on Oct [...]
Princes Parade, Development or Destruction?
Jack Brophy – Published on 6 Aug 2018 ‘Prince’s Parade, Development or Destruction?’ is documentary about a small section of coastal land in Kent [...]
East Kent removes more Pollution than any other region via vegetation
According to a study produced for the UK Natural Capital accounts by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in conjuction with the Office of National Statistics (ONS), [...]