The Grand: “The Merry Go round stops”
With those words, Michael Stainer knew that his final appeal against personal bankruptcy was doomed. Appearing before Chief Bankruptcy Registrar Briggs in the High Court on [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council
F&HDC Overview & Scrutiny Committee want to hear from you
It is the Lion which has never roared nor is it ever likely to. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee has made a call out to you the [...]
Happy New Year to you all.
First we must congratulate Cllr Rory Cassian Love for his award of an OBE. He was first elected in 1987 and stood in the Folkestone Harvey Ward. He came third in the vote [...]
Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.
At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]
History of Pensand House & Marlborough Court
It begins back in 1987, the year Rick Astley’s – Never Gonna Give You Up remained at No 1 for five weeks. On the 29th May 1987 a charge for a mortgage was raised from [...]
Defending the public interest
The Public Interest needs defending. But who does it need defending from? Folkestone & Hythe District Council and Councillor Russell Tillson, that’s who. In the [...]
P & R could lose £6.3 million pound contract with Folkestone & Hythe District Council?
Exclusive Back in May, then in June and October of this year we made it clear there were issues with the P & R Gas Servicing & Heating Installation contract. In an [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council lose more than £130,000 in unpaid HGV PCNs
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have failed to collect £130,643 in unpaid Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for HGVs parked unlawfully across the district in the last [...]
A Grand History
Between April 1981 and September 1981 the residents of the Grand made six written requests for a summary of costs for service charges to Michael Stainer (pictured circa [...]
Fixing a hole and saving a million
Folkestone Library is falling into disrepair and the holes need to be fixed to stop the rain from getting in. On Thursday 4th May 2017 David Monk was elected as a Kent County [...]
When one leaves, another arrives
On April 23rd 2018 a company was registered on the Luxembourg equivalent of Companies House. The name of this company was F55 Sterling Folkestone S. à r. l., Luxembourg an [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The first but not the last
Back in Jan of this year, Folkestone & Hythe District Council decided to set aside £3.675 million for land and property acquisition within the boundary of the Otterpool [...]
Staff losses & recruitment agency costs
Folkestone & Hythe District Council realise their biggest challenge to delivery of Council services is recruiting and retaining key skills in some areas of their [...]
Homelessness & Housing
Under the umbrella of the Rainbow Centre working with Churches Together in Folkestone, the Winter Shelter will open its doors to the homeless on Monday December 3rd and will [...]
Royal Victoria Hospital sells for £1.25 million
EXCLUSIVE Back in March 2018, we brought you the post: Do you believe in coincidence? This speculated that a company by the name of RVH Folkestone Limited owned and [...]
Princes Parade “viable” without 150 homes says Folkestone & Hythe District Council
EXCLUSIVE It is now known that to make Princes Parade “viable” according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, the 150 residential properties are not [...]
Black Days for the Unreasonable Stainers
Like an out-of-control juggernaut hurtling towards the precipice with no-one at the wheel, the Grand slides towards disaster. To be fair, there was someone at the wheel, [...]
The Long Read: Horn Street Stench, Part 2
Since we brought you Part 1 of The Horn Street Stench in early October 2018, more details about raw sewage backing up in toilets and baths and the stench have emerged. [...]
Princes Parade Business Plan Delayed
Exclusive: Princes Parade Business Plan was to be discussed behind closed at the Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet, to be held on the 12th Dec. This will not [...]
Part 2: Betrayed by East Kent Housing
“All’s well that ends well.” ― William Shakespeare, After our post about Arthur on Monday, his life is in the process of being transformed. He was [...]
Betrayed by East Kent Housing
Arthur is 86. He has served in our armed forces and has been betrayed by one of his ward Cllrs, by Cllr Alan Ewart- James Cabinet member for Housing (pictured below left), by [...]
We will remember them
For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest [...]
The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park
It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t make sense.. Marlie Farm Holiday Park (New Romney, Kent) was purchased by Harts Holiday Camps Limited on the [...]
A bunch of muppets, dodgy data, & Pensand House & Malborough Court.
One lunch time last week 29th Oct – 2nd Nov, I received an email. I opened it and read it and to my surprise found myself laughing at its contents. The email only [...]