Is the Council allowing Veolia to defraud local ratepayers?
Updated: 8 Sept 2023 @ 10:31am In our last post about the failure of Veolia to undertake street cleansing properly, are the Council allowing them to defraud the local [...]
Environment
Solar Farms: Council explore 20 hectare site at Lympne and Pent Farm Postling applies for 27.7 hectare site
None come along for ages, then two at once. Solar Farms are fast becoming the fashion in our district, what with a planning application (23/0580/FH) lodged on land owned by [...]
Right to Roam access in Kent is just 0.6%
Did you know access to nature is very unequally distributed across England. 72% of the Peak District is access land, compared to just 0.6% of Kent According to data released [...]
Climate & Ecological Emergency motion was not referred to committee or priced,
How much has it cost? Well the honest answer is nobody knows, as it was never priced. Nor did the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee discuss the best way [...]
Otterpool Park Update: A brief history of the political parties stance on the development
It is funny how political parties are prepared to do spectacular u-turns. This is true of all parties at national and local level. Regarding the Otterpool Park [...]
Can things only get better for our environment?
It is good news for our extraordinary district’s environment. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have more publicly available electric vehicle charging points [...]
A vote for Rylands is a vote to help local Folkestone charities
At the beginning of my campaign I promised to donate my Councillor allowance to local Folkestone based charities, if elected. The charities who I would donate to, if elected, [...]
Council’s Property Development Company Otterpool Park request a further £80m
Perhaps Cllr Susan Carey was right after all when she said we should sell Otterpool Park in February 2023. I say that as the company set up to deliver the Otterpool Project, [...]
A Vote for Rylands on May 4 is a vote for action, not gimmicks
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 [...]
Mill Leese Saltwood – EA looking to reduce tree canopy coverage
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 [...]
Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”
“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]
Unlawful behaviour by our Council further harms their reputation
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 [...]
Hythe Green Preservation Society improving the environment
This is a guest post Among all the talk of development and building over green spaces, Hythe Green is moving in the other direction. Following the successful partnership of [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine
The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]
£250,000 of Green Cash to be given away by the Council to help the environment
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet is being asked to agree approval to establish a £250,000 fund to provide grants to support local businesses to improve their [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The Reuben Brothers Mystery and our Public Rights of Way
Wherever you travel in Sellindge [Kent] you find land earmarked for development, being developed, or land banking by one of these four companies. Cozumel Estates Gladman [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent
It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Lib Dems propose new location for playground, but fail to explain costs of remediation.
The Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats are now proposing the disused railyway line (pictured); which runs from Warren Rd, Folkestone (alongside Tram Rd) to Rocksalt as [...]
Part 1 Don’t FCUK with Ailish Erskine
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 [...]
On Street Parking contract loses £1.1 million in eight of the last ten years
On and off street parking in the Folkestone & Hythe District is always a bone of contention. In the last ten financial years (Apr 1 – March 31) Folkestone & [...]
Historic England to take no action against Cllrs for unauthorised works on Royal Military Canal
On March 19th we informed you that Shepway Green Party Cllrs were under investigation by Historic England, for committing an offence which breached s2 of the Ancient [...]
Otterpool Park update: Borrowing, hidden soft market testing and a Dodgy man in charge
To purchase Folkestone racecourse site from the Reuben Brothers for £25 million; which included Monk’s private fishing lake, the council borrowed the money, but [...]
Public Consultations in July for reserved matters application for further development on Folkestone Seafront
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 [...]
Hythe Town Council want you to eat plants and ignore our armed forces
Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 On Thursday 24 June 2021, Hythe Town Council meet at the Town Hall at 6.20 pm to discuss the following Agenda item 16.Notice of Motion No 109 [...]
Council issue Veolia with two week ultimatum to turn round £40 million waste contract fiasco
Updated: 11/06/21 @ 20:05 Empty vessels, they say, make most noise and actions speak louder than words. On Wednesday 9th June Cllr Stuart Peall (Con), Cabinet Member [...]