Hoarding at Princes Parade will be down by Easter 2024
It is the beginning of the end for the hoarding on Princes Parade. On Monday 20 Nov 2023, Folkestone & Hythe District Council placed a tender for the removal of the [...]
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£750,000 of Contract Irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Before we move forward we must go back almost a year. If one casts one’s mind back to Report Number AuG/22/21; which went before the Audit & Governance Committee [...]
Council withdraw car parking charging proposals for Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe & New Romney High Streets.
Parking in our district is currently in the headlines. But something most of you didn’t know, and don’t know, is the Council is yet again in breach of the law and [...]
Council’s on street car parking financial modelling proposal for raising money to plug £18m deficit, doesn’t add up.
Is it a U-turn or even a partial U-turn on the parking fiasco engulfing the new Green led Folkestone & Hythe District Council. When we last reported on this issue, on the [...]
Is the pot calling the kettle black?
Pot and kettle spring to mind. Since May 2023, the Greens & Lib Dems have formed a minority coalition, while being supported by Labour. Prior to the Greens leading [...]
Council propose parking charges in Folkestone, Hythe & New Romney high streets to plug £18.5m deficit
And due to the Tory profligacy under former leader David Monk, the new Green led administration are proposing motorists pay nearly £400,000 per year, for parking in the town [...]
Temporary Staff costs to break £1m barrier for fourth time in six years
In a time when the Council need to save money, they will once again spend more than a million pounds on temporary staff. They will spend this amount for the fourth time in [...]
More contract irregularities even under new Green led administration
Who cares, who really cares? It is not as if we can say our Cllrs care. They are all too often reactive to situations, not proactive. Under the old regime we wrote frequently [...]
Tory profligacy means newly elected Council must find savings of £3m
‘History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce’ Karl Marx In Feb 2004 the then Tory led Shepway District Council voted for a 39% increase in its [...]
Leas Pavillion not being held up by planning or utility issues
For many it will not come as a surprise, but all work on the Leas Pavillion site has come to a halt. The site is owned by Leas Pavilion Development Limited. They purchased [...]
New Green led Council abandons election pledge to build more affordable Council homes
The Council are looking to sell land once earmarked for 30 Council homes at Highview Moat Farm Rd Folkestone, to a private developer, meaning only 7 homes will be [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council does not have the appetite or capacity to fund the Otterpool Park Project
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is severely constrained financially with regard to the Otterpool Park development of 10,000, due to several factors including any [...]
More than 1000 households forced into temporary accomodation in last five years at a cost of £1.9m
Temporary Accommodation is accommodation provided in connection with a local authority’s statutory homelessness obligations under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996, (as [...]
Two out of three users of district car parks pay by RingGo.
Parking is an issue that is never far from visitors or locals minds. When the sun shines across our district we are blessed with visitors and locals who fill all 26 Council [...]
Cllr Monk’s diary reveals his freemason links.
Hands up those who knew that Parish Cllr, David Monk, and former leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council is a freemason, as was his wife’s father. According [...]
Council spend £22,720 on 629 medical assessments from company who never meet the patient
Tucked away in the recesses of the Council’s website is a little known document, which to the vast majority of residents never has a bearing on your life. But for some [...]
Is the Council allowing Veolia to defraud local ratepayers?
Updated: 8 Sept 2023 @ 10:31am In our last post about the failure of Veolia to undertake street cleansing properly, are the Council allowing them to defraud the local [...]
Green led FHDC is failing to comply with Environmental Protection Act 1990 says auditor.
Updated: 8 Sept 2023 @10:25am Damning evidence in an independent Audit report concludes that Folkestone & Hythe District Council, a Green led council, is failing in its [...]
One household every five days placed into temporary accommodation out of Folkestone & Hythe District
In real life, poverty and dignity are not good bedfellows. Making good and clean floors are all well and good. But modern day virtues are easier to hold when you rise every [...]
Council issue £1.5m of liability orders against 197 individuals/companies for non payment of business rates
Over the last five financial years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have raised 197 liability orders against individuals or companies to the sum of nearly £1.5m [...]
Finally paedophile Russell Tillson is behind bars
It has taken since 2018 for allegations made against Russell Tillson (pictured far left) committing abuse upon his victims, who were pupils in his charge during the 1980s at [...]
60 seconds with… Susan Priest
All the information in the post already exists in the public domain 60 seconds with… Susan Priest Susan is Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council and [...]
Part 2: Are they so different?
Last year, we as a team reminded the Council time and again about their failure to publish the Procurement card transactions data. Eventually after much huffing and puffing, [...]
Are they so different?
On the 21 June, the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance & Governance Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), told the world the newly elected administration of Folkestone [...]
long term empty homes & second homes on the rise in the district
On the 26 July 2023, Cabinet Member for Housing & Homelessness Cllr Rebecca Shoob (Green) informed the world there were 1,540 households on the council housing waiting [...]