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Hythe Wood-Burner Pollution: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Challenged Over UCL Data

March 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

At Tuesday 3 March’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, a revealing exchange played out over domestic wood burners and air quality in Hythe. Councillor Paul Thomas recalled [...]

Cold Homes, Fuel Poverty and FHDC Independent Living: Why Older Residents Are Still Being Left in the Cold

February 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the bleak mid-winter; Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Christina Rossetti Cold is not just uncomfortable; for older people it can be [...]

Property Sales in Folkestone & Hythe District Violate EPC Regulations.

March 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

Updated: 5 March @ 19:48 In the UK, it is a legal requirement to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) when selling a property, including private sales. The EPC must [...]

Elderly & Disabled living in Council homes’ which are not energy efficient.

March 1, 2025 // 2 Comments

At the full council meeting on 26 February, Cllr Rebecca Shoob (Green), Cabinet Member for Housing (pictured), announced that 73.7% of the Council’s homes have achieved [...]

Part 2 Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting?

April 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

On Valentine’s Day we published the blog post: Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting? In short it was about Creative Folkestone (CF) [...]

Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting?

February 14, 2024 // 2 Comments

Down in the Creative Quarter of Folkestone, all is not well. Tenants in properties leased to Creative Folkestone (CF) by the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, have received [...]

Retrofitting council stock will lead to better health outcomes for those in social housing

May 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

Housing is a big issue for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but here we are not talking about building more social housing, but rather retrofitting their existing [...]

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 [...]

Unlawful behaviour by our Council further harms their reputation

September 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

We have longed stated that the levels of competency of some Council Officers is woefully inadequate. Once again, without any assistance from The Shepway Vox Team, they freely [...]

Claire’s story and the scandal of fuel poverty in Kent

October 24, 2020 // 1 Comment

“I worried about her especially as winter was setting in. She wasn’t here for the books but the warmth .” says Julia a librarian in Kent (not her real [...]

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