Dymchurch

Folkestone & Hythe War Memorials & Roll of Honour: Remembering All Who Fell on Land, Sea and Air

November 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s roll of honour stretches from village greens to the cliff-top memorials that face France. On The Leas, the Folkestone War Memorial carries around [...]

Is Property Developer Oliver Davis in financial difficulty?

April 14, 2024 // 4 Comments

After moving to a house “in an exclusive location” which cost nearly £1.4m in 2019, Oliver Davis, who likes to think of himself as a property developer, is now [...]

Water, Water Everywhere, Much With Plops and Stink

April 13, 2024 // 3 Comments

This is a Guest Post On Wednesday 10th April 2024, I went along to a public meeting regarding the state of our local waterways and coast. The event was held in New [...]

Finally paedophile Russell Tillson is behind bars

September 2, 2023 // 3 Comments

It has taken since 2018 for allegations made against Russell Tillson (pictured far left) committing abuse upon his victims, who were pupils in his charge during the 1980s at [...]

Proposed 132 Homes for High Knocke, Dymchurch, refused

June 6, 2023 // 10 Comments

Planning application 21/2525/FH – Land Adjoining High Knocke Farm, 65 Seabourne Way, Dymchurch, was refused at last night’s planning committee. The site pictured [...]

High Knocke Dymchurch, do we need the 132 homes given there is “massive oversupply” of housing, says leader of the Council

May 29, 2023 // 2 Comments

This is the story, or rather the continuation of the story about the planning application for 132 Homes at High Knocke Dymchurch. This application is set to go before the [...]

A Vote for Rylands on May 4 is a vote for action, not gimmicks

April 11, 2023 // 2 Comments

I care about our environment, whether it is Princes Parade, Otterpool, our air, our rivers, or our seas. I care so much, I am taking Southern Water to tribunal to discover [...]

Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy

January 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]

Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns

August 8, 2022 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]

Leas Pavillion crumbles, while money for development flows in from offshore company

July 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

As parts of the Leas Pavillion, Folkestone, begin to crumble unexpectedly, the developer, Olivier Georges Jacques Daelemans, is lucky that work is under way to protect and [...]

From top to bottom, is the council rotten?

June 4, 2022 // 3 Comments

When an organisation such as Folkestone & Hythe District Council, fails to manage and curtail ‘financial irregularities’, ‘contract [...]

Will the 7 Parish Councils who received £130,000 of CIL money allow residents to have input into how it’s spent?

April 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008, as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver [...]

Proposed 132 Homes for High Knocke, Dymchurch, backed by offshore money.

January 30, 2022 // 4 Comments

An outline planning application [21/2525/FH] for a residential development of 132 dwellings, at High Knocke, Dymchurch, is currently under consultation. The application has [...]

Broadband slowly improving across the district

May 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]

Ask your local Parish, Town, District County council to put heat pumps under playing fields and parks

May 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

One of the things which has come out of the pandemic is how important nature is to us all. Our green spaces have provided us with places to relax and enjoy nature at close [...]

Just to walk my dog

April 5, 2021 // 5 Comments

This is a GUEST post For the last four decades I have walked my dogs along the firing ranges between the Grand Redoubt and Fisherman’s beach, or the beach at Dymchurch. [...]

Second homeowners exploiting “unethical loophole” to claim £3.5m in virus cash

March 31, 2021 // 3 Comments

Throughout the pandemic second homeowners across our district have been able to claim approx £3.5 million in covid grants designed to help small businesses weather the [...]

FHDC look set to have highest Council Tax in Kent for eighteenth year in a row

February 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 24 February 2021, Report A/20/08 will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Full Council at 7pm. This report concludes the budget setting process for [...]

Council’s On Street Parking Contract lost £600,000 in five of the last seven financial years

August 19, 2020 // 6 Comments

Here’s a shocker – for five out of the last seven financial years, On Street parking has NOT made money for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). In [...]

Cllr Ian Meyers Steps Down From Cabinet

February 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council has asked Cllr Ian Meyers (UKIP) – Romney Marsh Ward to step down from the Cabinet. No [...]

Seven Projects receive £146,000 of £3 million High Street Fund So Far

January 19, 2020 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £3 million High Streets Regeneration Fund was first announced in report C/19/21. It was established to support and help high [...]

Dymchurch Recreation Ground

June 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Incompetence? You decide.

March 31, 2018 // 6 Comments

In late November 2017 we brought you a story about the theft of a Car Park Pay and Display machine in SDC’s High Knocke Car Park. An FoI request made by our public face [...]

Police to Talk to Shepway District Councillor.

December 2, 2017 // 3 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Roger Wilkins (pictured) was first elected to Shepway District Council in 2011 for the Dymchurch & St Mary’s Bay seat. He received 1,233 votes and [...]

The Long Read: Money Laundering & Tax Evasion In Shepway.

October 5, 2017 // 5 Comments

Tax Evasion, Money Laundering & Bankruptcy Fraud are not things one would normally believe happen in Shepway, that happens elsewhere, not here, but alas it does happen [...]

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