Folkestone Harbour

New Folkestone Society Chair Matthew Jones on Heritage, Regeneration and Folkestone’s Future

May 5, 2026 // 3 Comments

A conversation with Matthew Jones, Chair of the New Folkestone Society, with Tony Quarrington also joining the discussion, on Folkestone’s past, present and future — from [...]

Folkestone’s Got Its Hat On

May 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

There are days when Folkestone can look like it’s had a hard paper round. We know the issues. We write about them often enough. Empty shops. Rough sleeping. Public money [...]

Green Hypocrisy: Hythe Tops Charts for Wood Burner Pollution

April 18, 2025 // 3 Comments

New analysis from University College London has laid bare a sharp hypocrisy at the heart of Folkestone & Hythe District: Hythe, the political stronghold of the Shepway [...]

A little bit of history about development on Folkestone harbour arm

February 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

Thirty six years ago Sea Containers Property Services Ltd– ultimately owned in the offshore tax haven of Bermuda at the time, made a planning application for housing, and a [...]

‘Ongoing public access’ to Folkestone harbour arm threatened if 410 new homes not built

February 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated 12/02/25 @ 12:52 Sir Roger De Haan, a man who is “uncompromising when he sets his mind to something“, has via his company and agent, resubmitted revised [...]

Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH to be heard on 21 January 2025

January 13, 2025 // 6 Comments

The controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH will go before the planning committee on the 21 January 2025, at 7pm, in the Council chamber. The [...]

Folkestone Harbour Development goes back out for reconsultation

November 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

Perchance you have not heard, the controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH, which is a reserved matters application for Phases 5 and 6 (comprising [...]

Harbour Plots 24/0505/FH: Can you carry on commenting & were we fairly consulted?

May 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

So the deadline (16 May) for commenting on the Harbour Plots reserved matters application 24/0505/FH has past. Comments had reached 488 comments, as of 9am, on the 17 May [...]

Harbour Plan: Should the affordable housing be built elsewhere?

May 1, 2024 // 3 Comments

Throughout all the Folkestone Harbour Plan consultations which took place between Oct 2022 – August 2023, we were all informed the number of affordable housing plots [...]

Have your say on controversial Harbour & Seafront Development Plots F, G & H

April 24, 2024 // 2 Comments

Like it or loathe it, the reserved matters application for the design, scale and layout of the plans for the development of plots F, G and H of the Folkestone Harbour & [...]

Harbour & Seafront Development: Work on Plot A, C1 and D1 can begin

April 23, 2024 // 6 Comments

So it continues. Plot A, C1 and D1 of the Folkestone Harbour Seafront Development have permission to begin. On the 19 March 2024, Savills for and on behalf of their client [...]

Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development: How did we get here.

April 20, 2024 // 1 Comment

The hoha around the seafront development continues. Regardless of where one stands on the issue of the Folkestone Harbour & Seafront being developed, one must look back [...]

De Haan Harbour charm offensive spins “positive response” to new heights.

November 27, 2023 // 3 Comments

“He says the modified design had a positive response from the local civic groups.” This is the last sentence in an article by The Independent about Sir Roger De [...]

Broadband slowly improving across the district

May 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]

More than 3,000 Children Living In Poverty In Folkestone & Hythe District.

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Child poverty in the Folkestone & Hythe district wards, has risen for the fifth year in a row. The number of children aged under 16 living in relative or absolute poverty [...]

Procedure to introduce a Controlled Parking Zone

June 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

On Tuesday 16/04/2019 the Overview & Scrutiny Committee met at the Civic Centre. On the agenda was the Call-in Report – Reconsideration of Decision 18/076. Officer [...]

Criminal?

October 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

There are a number of companies in the group and the “brand” known as “Sir Roger De Haan”. The “brand” relating to the harbour is as far [...]

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