Environment Agency

Sewage discharges fall due to drier weather, not Southern Water’s actions

March 31, 2023 // 6 Comments

The data released by the Environment Agency regarding the total duration (hours) of all spills by Southern Water, prior to processing into the sea and the East Stour river, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Kent Ecological Advice Service query if Biodiversity Net Gain will exceed 20%.

January 30, 2023 // 1 Comment

It can’t be easy wanting to build a new town where you wish to build up to 10,000 homes. It would seem that Otterpool Park LLP, the master developer is running into [...]

Mill Leese Saltwood – EA looking to reduce tree canopy coverage

October 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

For those of you who unaware, in 2020, it was reported in the KCC Canopy-cover-report that Folkestone and Hythe has the second lowest tree canopy coverage at around 8% of its [...]

1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]

Part 1 Don’t FCUK with Ailish Erskine

October 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

Don’t fcuk with Ailish Erskine or Mrs Jane Clark (Owner of Saltwood Castle). Both of these women have been bent but never broken, which has only served to make them [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

Otterpool Park Update: East Stour river pollution puts brakes on Garden Town

July 13, 2021 // 4 Comments

Back in Oct 2020, the Stodmarsh phosphorus and nitrogen issue meant Folkestone & Hythe District Council had a planning log jam of 133 homes as a result of the updated [...]

The Stodmarsh moratorium holding up 40,000 homes across East Kent

July 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

It will take “a very large financial number” to fix the Stodmarsh phosporus & nitrogen issue, say Natural England in a meeting held on Wednesday 2nd December, [...]

Yes, No, Yes, No, and that’s official.

May 25, 2021 // 4 Comments

According to a member of the public and the Cabinet Member for the Environment, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green), Folkestone & Hythe District Council have allegedly sprayed [...]

Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.

April 21, 2021 // 5 Comments

Across the Garden of England hundreds of landfill sites containing dangerous, hazardous and toxic waste, are according to a remediation consultant of 35 years, “time [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Work Begins on Brexit Clearance Lorry Park in Ashford

July 16, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated: 13:20 16/07/20 Workers are now on the MOJO site where the Brexit clearance customs point will be built, according to the ward Cllr, Paul Bartlett of Ashford Borough [...]

Council’s Costs to Defend Princes Parade Judicial Review, Rise by Staggering 85%.

April 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Since we last reported on payments made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to their Solicitors’s of choice – Attwells Solicitors LLP – to defend [...]

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