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HMRC names & shames Alcaline and Shepherd Neame, among others, for NOT paying minimum-wage

November 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent’s latest “name and shame” list from HM Revenue & Customs reads like a roll call of penny-pinching employers who failed to pay legal minimum rates. The current [...]

Sir Roger De Haan & Lady Alison De Haan increase their donations to Tory Party by a further £50,000

February 19, 2024 // 2 Comments

On the 30 June 2021, we reported on the Public Consultations in July for reserved matters application for further development on Folkestone Seafront At that time we reported: [...]

Part 2: More Homes for Sellindge?

July 18, 2023 // 7 Comments

In our last post about more homes for Sellindge, we made it clear that Quinn Homes are proposing to build 105 homes at Elm Tree Farm in Sellindge. The land is currently owned [...]

More Homes for Sellindge?

July 13, 2023 // 7 Comments

Once again Sellindge is under the spotlight. Quinn Homes wish to build 105 homes at Elm Tree Farm Sellindge. No planning application has been submitted yet, and no planning [...]

The antics of three Folkestone Town Councillors

December 10, 2022 // 8 Comments

There are three tiers of Local Government in Kent. They are: County, District, Town/Parish. It is the last we wish to ruminate about today. But before we do, you must bear in [...]

Quinn’s donations to Tories climbs to a £150,000

April 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated @19:45 The controversial developer Mark Quinn (below left) has via his company Quinn Estates Limited given £7,200 of ‘consultancy services’ to Tory MP [...]

Brexit voters lost the jobs of the 800 P & O workers?

March 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated Saturday 19.3.22 @ 18:30 Antonio Cirale, is not a name you have probably heard of prior to the last few days. He is the man behind International Ferry Management Ltd [...]

Part 2 – Kent Donors to local and national Labour Party

September 2, 2021 // 3 Comments

When it comes to the motives of donors there is a presumption of guilt. Base motives will be assumed by most, if not all. However, that said we happen to believe that [...]

Part 1 – Kent Donors to local & national Tory party

August 31, 2021 // 1 Comment

“A little bit of money goes a very long way.” Political donations have been at the heart of many a scandal, but does it matter that at local and national level, parties [...]

Sandbanks – New Romney: Are local Tories ‘in hock’ to developers via their donations?

August 25, 2021 // 6 Comments

Sandbanks planning application was successful at last night’s Planning Committee. However, it’s clear the closeness of the developer Leo Griggs with members of [...]

Public Consultations in July for reserved matters application for further development on Folkestone Seafront

June 30, 2021 // 2 Comments

Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 FoIkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company [the Company] a company owned by Sir Roger Michael De Haan is bringing forward proposals for [...]

Bats, badgers, threatened species & lethal levels of contamination on former officers mess, Hawkinge

May 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

In 2015, Tom Goldsmith set up a petition on Change.org which gained 407 signatures. The title of the petition was: Say No to the development on the Hawkinge officers Mess and [...]

The local developer being helped along by the public purse

May 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]

Lethal levels of arsenic present on former Officers Mess Aerodrome Road Hawkinge site.

April 1, 2021 // 9 Comments

Updated: 01/04/21 @20:27 Land at the Former Officers Mess, Elvington Lane, Aerodrome Road Hawkinge purchased by Pentland Homes on 01/12/2020 for £2.5 million, according to [...]

Contact your EKHUFT Governors about your concerns for new hospital at Canterbury

February 28, 2021 // 5 Comments

How many of you know who your Council of Governors representative for East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust is? How many of you know who your Folkestone & Hythe [...]

The Long Read: Planning excites passion.

August 1, 2020 // 6 Comments

Planning has always been the hottest of all local government topics. It’s the one most likely to stir the passions of local people and yet no sooner have those passions [...]

Damian Collins Dodgy Donation for his December 2019 General Election Campaign

March 6, 2020 // 4 Comments

Damian Collins MP for Folkestone & Hythe (pictured) received a dodgy donation for his Dec 2019 General Election Campaign, from a company which does NOT exist. And when it [...]

Exclusive: Leaked documents show Quinn Super Hospital at Canterbury would cost £127 million

December 13, 2019 // 2 Comments

In leaked documents given to our public face on a visit to one of the hospitals run by East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust, they show the cost for the proposed new [...]

Part 2: One A & E for East Kent?

November 3, 2018 // 4 Comments

The cost to build a new hospital at Canterbury would be in the region of £120 million. A hospital of this cost would be able to accommodate between 850 -900 beds, [...]

The Long Read: – Otterpool Park Update.

April 24, 2018 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) & Cozumel Estates BVI Ltd as joint developers/promoters of Otterpool Park wish to build “low density housing on two [...]

Sellindge Y16/1122/SH, – Quinn Estates & The Bucknell Trust

April 2, 2018 // 6 Comments

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 [...]

Update on Otterpool Park

November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Warwick Smith in The Guardian sets out that Companies “don’t give their money away for nothing. There is an understanding (rarely made explicit) that large [...]

Damian Collins MP £17,600 Worth of Donations & that Glastonbury Ticket.

August 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

Damian Collins MP registered £17,600 in donations on July 17 2017. Mr Paul Francis (pictured), Political Editor of the Kentish Express for some reason chose to focus on [...]

Developers, Donations & Cllrs Attitudes to the Planning System.

January 30, 2017 // 4 Comments

The Conservative Manifesto contained a headline commitment to “ensure local people have more control over planning” Yet power still rests with central/local government [...]

Hidden Facts about Otterpool Park

December 8, 2016 // 5 Comments

Today marks the beginning of Shepway District Council’s (SDC) consultation about the Otterpool Park Development. At Sellindge Sports & Social Club between 2pm [...]

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