Folkestone & Hythe District Council

Princes Parade: Stopping Up Order Documents released by Planning Inspector & Secretary of State

January 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

So the campaign to prevent the stopping up order of the road which will run behind the land at Princes Parade, led by KCC Cllrs Rory Love OBE and Andy Weatherhead was [...]

Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Site had visit from No 10’s Cabinet Secretary

January 11, 2022 // 2 Comments

There have been further developments at Otterpool Park where the council wish to build up to 10,000 homes at a cost of £2.9bn, making a conservative profit of £193m. [...]

Council’s housing target failure gives hope for environment before the progress of concrete continues

December 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council [previously Shepway] has failed to meet its annual housing requirement target for ten of the past fourteen years. This a 71% failure [...]

The planning loophole used so frequently by Sir Roger’s companies looks set to be closed

December 5, 2021 // 2 Comments

Gareth Bacon MP for Orpington, sought leave to bring in a Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent

November 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Cllr David Monk has a new occupation

November 19, 2021 // 5 Comments

He’s been a double glazing salesman, a Cllr since 1995; and now he has a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist, since July 2021. Yes, Cllr David Drury Monk, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Costs rise to £66 million and not a single house built.

November 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

Educashan, Educashan, Educashan

November 14, 2021 // 3 Comments

Something half sensible came out of last week’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, who meet on the 9 Nov. The Chairwoman of the committee, Cllr Michelle Keutinius (Lab) [...]

Should councillors have to tell us if they are Masons?

October 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 31/10/21 @ 06:00am It’s often seen as a shadowy world of secret handshakes, favours for friends and strange initiation ceremonies – but should we be [...]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity in Folkestone & Hythe District Council.

October 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

One does not have to do anything to make Folkestone & Hythe District Council look stupid or incompetent, they are quite capable of doing that all on their own. For those [...]

Nearly One in Four Council Meetings held behind closed doors

October 27, 2021 // 2 Comments

Since the local elections of May 2019, which ushered in 13 Tory Cllrs, 6 Labour Cllrs (one later became an Independent) 6 Green Cllrs and 2 Lib Dem Cllrs, 2 UKIP Cllrs [...]

Biggins Wood receives £1.15 Grant funding but questions remain

October 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

Dr Susan Priest said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was “contaminated“. Andy Jarrett said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was [...]

Garden Waste rebate set at a tenner and you won’t see a penny of it

October 13, 2021 // 1 Comment

The council rebate to all subscribers of the garden waste service will be £9.70, according to a report being sent to Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet [...]

Let The Children Play

October 10, 2021 // 6 Comments

Public playgrounds are an iconic symbol of childhood. The first playgrounds were a German invention built to teach children how to play. 1859 saw the first British playground [...]

Development still not connected to sewage system nine years after being informed by Southern Water there was not enough capacity.

October 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

A Shepway Vox Team Investigation has discovered that as of today 05/10/21, according to Southern Water, the development known as Shoreline (Where the land meets the Sea) or [...]

Leo Griggs seeking to make £1.5 million on sale of part of Royal Victoria Hospital site

October 1, 2021 // 6 Comments

Leo Griggs purchased the Royal Victoria Hospital site via his company RVH Folkestone Ltd from KCC for £1.25 million on 1st Nov 2018. Just three years on he now wants to sell [...]

Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy

September 30, 2021 // 1 Comment

“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]

Community Infrastructure Levy miscalculated by Folkestone & Hythe District Council leaving Town & Parish Councils out of pocket

September 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have, according to Report AuG/21/12 released to the Audit & Governance Committee, miscalculated the Community Infrastructure Levy [...]

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