Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Consult On Homelessness Strategy
During the covid-19 pandemic, the street homeless in Folkestone all but disappeared. The government funded a scheme called “Everyone In” which housed homeless people [...]
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C**k up, Conspiracy or Incompetence?
So is it a cock up, conspiracy or incompetence? We simply do not know, but we’ll let you judge from the evidence we put before you. All the evidence is in the public [...]
Otterpool Park Update: It’s Official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Now Own The Racecourse
It’s official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council now own Folkestone racecourse, according to the land registry. The deal has taken close to six months to [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council broke the law by ‘secretly’ relocating homeless people
It would appear the Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been breaking the law by sending households to other districts and counties. The Guardian make it clear in a [...]
Every Breath We Take
Updated: 10:15 am 26/06/20 Air pollution does NOT discriminate. We all need to breathe. All lives matter. Nobody needs to be saying: “I Can’t Breathe” due to [...]
Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review
Updated 17:25 – 22/06/20 The Judicial Review brought by the Save Princes Parade over the planning permission for the development of Princes Parade (Hythe) has been [...]
Here We Go Again: Gas Safety Issues At East Kent Housing
Updated 17:00 22/06/20 More sources than the 57 varieties of Heinz have stepped forward and informed the Shepwayvox Team that as of 1st June 2020 there were well in excess [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £51 million Spent To Provide Monk His Own Private Fishing Lake & Development Is In The Wrong Location
Monk gets his own private fishing lake. The Council have spent £51 million so far, and not a single house has been built. And a transport report concludes Otterpool is being [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors Allowances 2019/20
Congratulations to Cllr Gary Fuller (pictured) (Lib Dem) for being the Cllr who claimed the least expenses for the financial year 2019/20. He claimed just £4,878 As always [...]
Council to pay £47,500 to replace all non-fire compliant doors in Ross House
After two years and two months Folkestone & Hythe District Council have begun replacing all the non-fire compliant doors in Ross House, which houses 43 residents in [...]
Updated ONS deaths attributed to covid-19 in Folkestone & Hythe District and the rest of the Country
The Office of National Statistics have update their map show places of death due to covid-19. It maps as low as ward level and can be searched by using your postcode. The [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Cllr Jim Martin “Shocked” Council appoint Tibbalds using a waiver for phase 1 of the Otterpool Park, at a cost of £120,000.
At a behind closed doors meeting of the Otterpool Working Group in April, an officer of the Council let slip that Tibbalds had been appointed as consultants to prepare [...]
Folkestone Seafront Development Causes Yet More Controversy
Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Seafront Development has over the years caused a lot of controversy. Cllrs were refused sight of the legal advice the Council had [...]
Record Breakers: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Break Two Records in One Day
It’s getting to be a habit with Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking records. – 1; – 2; – 3 For the seventeenth (17th) year in a row, [...]
FHDC staff mileage allowances may be reduced after six years and four reviews.
For many of you claiming mileage for using your car/van for work will be paid at 0.45p for the first 10,000 business miles in a year and then 25p per mile thereafter. This [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council Refuse Cllrs to See the Legal Advice on Otterpool Delivery Vehicle.
In our last post about Otterpool Park we spoke about the development vehicle – Otterpool Park Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and its set up. It’s clear that [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Tomorrow the Cabinet will meet to discuss report Report Number C/20/02 -which makes recommendations about the Otterpool Park Delivery Vehicle, how it will be structured and [...]
Changes afoot to Overview & Scrutiny are decided behind closed doors continuing the lack of Openness & Transparency.
We have long said the effectiveness of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) has been unacceptable and that it has been the lion which never roared. It has been a [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Continue to Spray Toxic Glyphosate Weedkiller in District Play Areas
Glyphosate was originally patented as a chemical pipe cleaner in 1964. In 1969 it was patented as a herbicide. Glyphosate is poison. That’s the first thing to understand [...]
Felled By Silence
Updated 24th May with full response from landowner which can be found here ⇒ Willow Wood Response On the 21st May 2019 the Forestry Commission (FC) granted permission to [...]
Council snap up Debenhams and debt repayment rises by 184% on £60 million of commercial investments
So as our public face predicted in April 2019 the Council have bought the former Debenhams building for a mark up of 2,482% and increased its debt repayments for it’s [...]
Watchdog to examine Kent Councils £373 Million Property Investment Spree
With the world concentrating it’s attention on the Covid-19 pandemic other issues are, understandably, passing unnoticed. One of these issues is the announcement by [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council set up two new companies to deliver the project and land registry docs show deal to buy racecourse still not completed.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set up two companies which will look after the delivery of the 10,000 homes Otterpool Park development. The first company [...]
Council’s Costs to Defend Princes Parade Judicial Review, Rise by Staggering 85%.
Since we last reported on payments made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to their Solicitors’s of choice – Attwells Solicitors LLP – to defend [...]
FHDC still paying NowMedical for reports after lockdown begun
At the begining of March we brought you the story about – How a doctor who has never seen you can say you’re fit enough to sleep on the streets of Kent. In short [...]