FHDC’s Renters’ Rights Policy Trips Over the Law
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is being asked to approve its new private-sector housing civil penalties policy on 24 June — 54 days after key Renters’ Rights Act [...]
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Folkestone & Hythe District Council Long-Term Sickness Absence Surges
Long-term sickness absence rose by two-thirds at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, with mental health-related conditions accounting for 42% of all working time lost. [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Local Plan Puts District’s Future on Rails
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has fired the starting gun on a new Local Plan that could shape the district until 2045. No sites have been chosen yet. No final [...]
FHDC HR Reports Reveal Disciplinary Resignations and Governance Failures
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own HR reviews show a sharp rise in disciplinary cases, complex investigations involving Internal Audit, staff resignations before [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Credit Card Audit Hidden Behind Criminal Investigation FOI Exemption
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s own auditors found weaknesses in corporate credit card controls. When the full report was requested, the council confirmed it held [...]
Folca: The £5.6m Former Debenhams Bill and the 25-Year Payback Question
Folkestone & Hythe District Council bought the former Debenhams building in May 2020 for £2.05m. Six years later, the public trail points to at least £2.419m paid or [...]
The Long Read: Cllr David Wimble’s Register of Interests: FHDC’s Address Trail
Cllr David Wimble, also recorded in company papers as William David Wimble, has a growing trail of company names, registered offices, trading addresses, council property [...]
FHDC Council Chairs and Allowances: Who Got Which Seat
The music stopped at Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s annual general meeting on Wednesday 6 May 2026. Cllr Paul Thomas got the big civic chair, most committee [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Bill Hits £1.52m
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published payments for temporary accommodation reached £1,520,865.70 in 2025/26 under just two descriptions: Bed & Breakfast [...]
FHDC Temporary Accommodation Contracts Show £570k Spending Gap
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s temporary accommodation trail shows two contract periods where the published payments appear to exceed the published values by a [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Expenses: Officers Get Higher Meal Allowances Than Councillors
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,” George Orwell wrote, and at Folkestone & Hythe District Council that principle appears to have [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Pay Gap Widens Between Top Officers and Lowest-Paid Staff
There is a neat trick in local authority pay stories. Look only at percentages and the whole thing can start to seem almost modest. Look at the pounds, though, and the [...]
Audit calls foul: Folkestone & Hythe Council’s £1.74 m no‑bid contracts branded a “huge own‑goal”
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contract Standing Orders could not be clearer: any officer who wants to buy something costing more than £10,000 without first [...]
For six years the Council have been committing a criminal offence at Otterpool
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have since taking ownership of the land on the west side of Otterpool Lane, Sellindge (Lots 1, 2 & 3 below), been committing a [...]
Council’s On Street Parking Contract lost £600,000 in five of the last seven financial years
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 [...]
So, Where’s The Money Gone?
So, where’s the money? The financial data below has all come from Folkestone & Hythe District Council. It excludes VAT. It is the Temporary staff costs data from [...]
Free Handouts or a Genuine Lifeline? How Councils are ‘Managing’ the COVID-19 Financial Support Programme
Deserted streets, closed or shuttered shops, hotels and restaurants. It’s like a scene from any one of a dozen end of the world movies. The one though, that leaps to mind [...]
KCC sell Royal Victoria Hospital and F&HDC purchased Highview for £750,000
According to Savills website, the Royal Victoria Hospital, site has been sold. This has happened in the last few days. No details as of yet have been updated on the Land [...]
For the Others from Elsewhere
In the Folkestone and Hythe District Council Core Strategy Review 2018 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18), policy SS2 (page 58) makes clear that between 2018/19 to [...]
Some Nuns, a Porn Baron and Folkestone & Hythe District Council
How are a bunch of Nuns, a former Porn Baron and Folkestone & Hythe District Council [FHDC] related to each other? Land, that’s what links them. The nuns are the [...]
Sir Roger’s seafront development s73 application deferred.
The s73 application – Y171099SH (Folkestone Seafront Development) made by The Folkestone Harbour Limited Partnership has been temporarily deferred. This is to allow [...]
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 [...]
Alistair’s £184,000 golden goodbye
So long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye to Mr Alistair Stewart Chief Executive of Shepway District Council, on the 31st March. When Mr Stewart drives of into the sunset [...]
Cllr David “Drury” Monk
Cllr David “Drury” Monk (pictured) Leader of Shepway District Council lives at 23 Minter Avenue Densole Kent CT18 7DS according to the SDC website. He [...]