Doodle Doom: Sam Cox’s Shingle Showdown in Dungeness
Application Ref: 24/0653/FH – The Log Cabin, Dungeness Road Dungeness Romney Marsh In the windswept, shingle-strewn purgatory of Dungeness—a place where nuclear power [...]
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Kingston Homes’ Hythe Plan: Luxury Builds, Zero Affordable Housing
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Planning Committee, (18 March 2025) Gather ’round, for we have a mystery on our hands—a mystery so baffling, so ludicrous, that even [...]
Leas Pavilion: “The Final Balance Sheet”
Leas Pavilion Development Ltd (LPD Ltd), the firm behind the ambitious revival of the historic Leas Pavilion—a project featuring 91 luxury apartments with coveted views of [...]
Mylecke NV’s Surprise Over Leas Pavilion Sale Raises Questions
It should come as no surprise to Mylecke NV that the Leas Pavilion site is now listed for sale on Rightmove. The circumstances leading to this outcome are clear and [...]
Seven-Year Wait for Affordable Homes, But Finally They Arrive
After a mere seven-year wait, the Council has finally managed to get their hands on a whopping nine affordable homes and five shared ownership properties on the land at [...]
Princes Parade: A £21m offer and no guarantee it won’t be in next local plan.
“Is the Leader aware that, to my understanding, there is currently an offer on the table for Princes Parade amounting to £21 million?” asked Cllr Jenny [...]
Princes Parade: No, No, No to any inclusion in any future local plan.
Yes, it’s true. Cllr Jenny Hollingsbee, Leader of the Conservative Group (pictured), has expressed her desire to retain the land at Princes Parade (Hythe) in any future [...]
Chief Executive & Founder of proposed Solar Farm on Romney Marsh named in Paradise Papers
Updated 16 Feb – @ 16:00 The company behind the proposed South East Energy Park on Romney Marsh, Low Carbon, have links to the offshore tax haven of Jersey. Their Chief [...]
A little bit of history about development on Folkestone harbour arm
Thirty six years ago Sea Containers Property Services Ltd– ultimately owned in the offshore tax haven of Bermuda at the time, made a planning application for housing, and a [...]
Otterpool Park update: Council approve deal with SNRG Ltd who has no operational experience of solar farms in the UK
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet last night approved the recommendations in Report Number C/24/68 to allow SNRG Ltd, to be the solar park provider at [...]
Part 3 – Land/Property Ownership by Companies & Organisations in Folkestone & Hythe District
Who owns the vast swathes of land and property in our district matters. It matters because land is a scarce resource – as Mark Twain put it, ‘they aren’t making it any [...]
‘Ongoing public access’ to Folkestone harbour arm threatened if 410 new homes not built
Updated 12/02/25 @ 12:52 Sir Roger De Haan, a man who is “uncompromising when he sets his mind to something“, has via his company and agent, resubmitted revised [...]
Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH to be heard on 21 January 2025
The controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH will go before the planning committee on the 21 January 2025, at 7pm, in the Council chamber. The [...]
Evidence suggests new housing targets numbers set by Labour government for Kent, will not be met.
Updated 09:55 – 15 Dec 2024 Is it a pipe dream? Can this Labour Government either build or start 1.5 million homes before the end of the next parliament in 2029? The [...]
Council seeks Judicial Review against Planning Application 21/2389/FH
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is seeking a judicial review of a Planning Inspector’s decision, made on the 6 August 2024. This decision relates to planning [...]
Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works
Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]
Biggin Wood Cheriton: Not a house or commercial unit built after 8 years of council ownership
Eight years on since the Council purchased the Biggins Wood land (pictured below) in Cheriton, for £1.5m, not one of the 77 homes,including 23 affordable homes; or the 54 [...]
Otterpool Park: Council propose another collaboration agreement with Homes England
Here we go again. At the full Council meeting this week (27 Nov), Cllr Jim Martin (Green) Leader and Cabinet Member for Otterpool Park and Planning Policy, will announce [...]
Folkestone Harbour Development goes back out for reconsultation
Perchance you have not heard, the controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH, which is a reserved matters application for Phases 5 and 6 (comprising [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Places for People pull out of Otterpool deal
Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, has spent [...]
Leas Pavilion and the connection to offshore companies
Now that Oliver Daelemans company Gustavia Ltd has parted ways with Leas Pavilion Development Ltd – who own the site, who then is behind Leas Pavilion Development [...]
Leas Pavilion development partners go their own ways
On the 1 Sept 2024 we wrote the following blog Leas Pavilion: Time to sell or liquidate. One day later a Press Release by Gustavia who acted as the development manager for [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council still sorting its sh*t out
The Council purchased the Champney land in December 2015. The land cost £5m. This was the beginnings of the Otterpool Park Garden Town Dream, where the Council hope to build [...]
Leas Pavillion: Time to sell or liquidate.
The Leas Pavillion remains unfinished. It was granted planning permission on the 27 November 2020. To date all we have are the twin elevator towers protruding above the [...]
Harbour Plots 24/0505/FH: Can you carry on commenting & were we fairly consulted?
So the deadline (16 May) for commenting on the Harbour Plots reserved matters application 24/0505/FH has past. Comments had reached 488 comments, as of 9am, on the 17 May [...]