Otterpool Park Update
Housing Minister Dominic Raab (pictured) has potentially fixed a £350,000 problem for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). Back in January of this year, [...]
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Dymchurch Recreation Ground
It all began with two simple sentences in the minutes of the 11 Jan 2017 (agenda item 2) report made by Dymchurch Parish Council. The two simple sentences said: This led to [...]
Otterpool Park update.
We’ll start with some good news. The probable Roman villa discovered on the Otterpool Park site will now become part of the development. In a conversation with Cllr [...]
The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.
Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]
The Long Read: – Otterpool Park Update.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) & Cozumel Estates BVI Ltd as joint developers/promoters of Otterpool Park wish to build “low density housing on two [...]
Cllr Jacqui Meade “Calls In” s73 Folkestone Seafront Development application.
Cllr Jacqui Meade (pictured) ~(Lab) of Folkestone Town Council has sent via email a request to call in the s73 Folkestone Seafront Development (pictured above) application. [...]
The Long Read: That motion and a little about financial viability assessments.
At last Thursday’s (12th April) extraordinary Hythe Town Council meeting at Hythe Town Council, agenda item 4 was to discuss Planning Application Y17/1042/SH – [...]
Here we go again: Another nuclear burial ground?
First of all and this is very important, Don’t Panic. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) have requested further information from the The Department for [...]
Sellindge Y16/1122/SH, – Quinn Estates & The Bucknell Trust
Back in Dec 2016, we brought you the blog post – Houston we have a problem – which was about planning application Y16/1122/SH in Sellindge. Now back then the [...]
Just for the record Alistair
So it is adieu to the Chief Executive Alistair Stewart (Head of Paid Services) of Shepway District Council, with a £184,000 redundancy package. He’s laughing all the [...]
What We Mean When We Say “The Council”
After 3 years of writing about Shepway District Council and its policies and plans we thought it might be useful to say what we mean when we say “the Council“. [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Failings to Pro-actively Disseminate “Environmental Information”.
It’s been 13 years and still they have not fully complied. It’s not just them though, they are we can assure you in good company. The Port of Dover, Folkestone [...]
Delusional Tories in a Rotten Borough, you decide.
Recently at a meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committe, Cllr Mary Lawes (UKIP) (pictured) called the Tory led chamber ‘Delusional’ on three occasions. [...]
A Love Fest in a “War Zone” and a £9k Donation.
“It’s a ‘war zone’ after more than a decade of decay and neglect.’ said Cllr Robert Hubble on behalf of Elmstead & Stelling Minning Parish [...]
Planning Application Y/16/0725/SH Hythe, Kent.
It all begins with a simple phone call. They were agitated, scared, nervous, confused with lots of questions. What if the rents go up? What if they ask us to move? Where will [...]
The Dark Side of Gentrification
On the sun strewn hills just above Folkestone, a family sit down to eat Sunday Lunch. The view they have is amazing, we can see France, the English channel fanning out and [...]
Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass.
Shirley Jackson (not her real name) steps out from her ground floor flat and lets rip: problems with overflowing bins and seagulls, the lack of parking, development ruining [...]
Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant
Behind Closed Doors at 5-pm Today 24 Feb 2016, SDC Cabinet made up of 9 Tory Cllrs will discuss the Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant and more specifically the legal [...]
Something is Rotten in the District Of Shepway
“We will a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.” WS [...]
Taylor Wimpey Houses on the Garrison Site
It was inevitable. Planning application Y14/0300/SH Shorncliffe Garrison passed at the Development Control Committee on the 24th March 2015. I doubted if the Council [...]