Folkestone and Hythe

Free School Meals In Folkestone & Hythe Rise From One In Five Pupils To Almost One In Three

July 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

The free-school-meals (FSM) line in Folkestone & Hythe doesn’t wobble. It climbs. All-schools district data shows the rate rising from 19.8% in 2020 to 32.6% in 2026. [...]

Southern Water Drought Plan Exposes Kent’s Water Supply Crisis

June 22, 2026 // 1 Comment

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W. H. Auden Southern Water is telling us to think about drought before we have no choice. Not just hosepipe bans. [...]

Update: Otterpool Park Next Steps: Hillhurst Farm Land Questions Loom Over Public Exhibition

June 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

The next Otterpool Park exhibition isn’t just another afternoon of glossy boards, polite smiles and “your views matter” stationery. It’s the point where the proposed [...]

Child Poverty Falls in Folkestone & Hythe, But Housing Costs Keep Thousands Poor

June 16, 2026 // 0 Comments

Child poverty has fallen in Folkestone & Hythe in the latest figures. That is the good news. The harder truth is that the district remains one of Kent’s highest [...]

Update: Otterpool Park Water Plan Faces Climate and Supply Questions

June 15, 2026 // 2 Comments

Otterpool Park is not just a housing scheme. It is an 8,500-home test of whether a seriously water-stressed part of Kent can absorb a new town, a business district, schools, [...]

The Long Read: South Kent Energy Park’s 2,100-Acre Solar Gamble on Romney Marsh

June 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Low Carbon says its South Kent Energy Park could power the equivalent of 140,000 homes. Its own scoping report also shows a much bigger scheme, on arable Marsh land, much of [...]

Exclusive: Homes England Secures Hillhurst Farm Land for Otterpool Homes

June 9, 2026 // 2 Comments

The next Otterpool Park housing move appears to sit in a very specific triangle of land at Hillhurst Farm, just south of the railway, east of Westenhanger station and around [...]

Kent Adds More Homes but Delivers Fewer Affordable Homes

June 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

New MHCLG data show Kent’s 12 district councils recorded 7,724 net additional homes in 2024/25, up almost 12% in a year when England’s total fell. But the county’s [...]

Dirty Air, Green Silence: Folkestone & Hythe’s PM2.5 Failure

May 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe is above the World Health Organization guideline for PM2.5. The council doesn’t directly monitor PM2.5. It has no Smoke Control Areas. It logged 129 [...]

Reform UK Hythe Leaflet Raises Missing Imprint Questions

April 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

A two-sided Reform UK leaflet delivered in Hythe is loud on Labour, loud on Kent, loud on potholes, loud on common sense and loud on “change”. What it doesn’t [...]

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