The Long Read: Planning excites passion.
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 [...]
Donations
Damian Collins Dodgy Donation for his December 2019 General Election Campaign
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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
Today marks the beginning of Shepway District Council’s (SDC) consultation about the Otterpool Park Development. At Sellindge Sports & Social Club between 2pm [...]