Otterpool Park update
At 20:37 on Dec 6th 2017, Dr Susan Priest, then Corporate Director – Strategic Development of Shepway District Council (SDC) – now Folkestone & Hythe District [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council
It’s official – broadband speeds on Romney Marsh, Lympne & Stanford suck!
In 2015 Williamson Road, Lydd on Sea average broadband speed was 0.54Mps, which meant it would take around 19 hours to download a two-hour HD film, and a 20-song music album [...]
There is the right way and there is the FHDC way.
We used to say there is “the right way and there is the Shepway. Of course, that has now morphed into there is right way and there is the Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Princes Parade decision deferred and some pink papers.
The application for planning permission for Princes Parade Promenade, due to be considered by Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee on [...]
Court costs and debt creation.
If you fail to pay your Council Tax – for whatever reason – within the permitted time, Folkestone & Hythe District Council will send you a reminder. If you [...]
Councillors fail to take GDPR Compliance training putting ‘residents at risk’
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors wear three hats when it comes to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, these are: As a [...]
Princes Parade planning application to be heard on July 31st
It is understood that the Princes Parade planning application Y17/1042/SH will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning Committe on July 31st 2018. For [...]
Devices Kent Police have extracted data from Jan 2017 – June 2018.
Between Jan 2017 and June 2018 Kent Police have extracted data from 4332 devices. The devices data has been extracted from are for example: memory chips, games consoles and [...]
Otterpool Park update
It’s always good to make things clear at the very beginning. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) in relation to Otterpool Park are one of the developers [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Overpayments 17/18
We want to tell you, we really do, but we can’t. It isn’t because we cannot tell you because of some legal reasons, it’s because Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Part 2: P & R Installation Company Ltd
A month ago we brought you a Long Read blog about P & R and how badly they were performing in relation to the £27 milllion pound central heating, emergency 24/7 gas and [...]
Are East Kent Housing turning a blind eye?
“It’s just not possible, really it isn’t possible”. However, East Kent Housing Ltd (EKH) – The UK’s first ‘super ALMO’, managing over [...]
On Street Parking
Parking is an issue which many of you feel strongly about. Folkestone & Hythe District Council state there has been a substantial increase from on street & off street [...]
Councillors Expenses 2017/18
So we have crunched the data on Cllrs Expenses and for the fourth year in a row they are wrong. – Expenses include – subsistence (food drink) Travel, eg train, [...]
The Long Read: M & R Refurbishments Ltd.
East Kent Housing (EKH), the largest arms length management organisation in the country, recently employed a contractor to undertake external painting of its Council housing [...]
The Council “neither confirms nor Denies” the Allegations of sexual harassment/misconduct leading to Settlement Agreements.
Back in Sept 2017 we brought you the post about Jeremy Chambers (pictured) being dismissed for Gross Misconduct. The allegations were that Jeremy was placed on gardening [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Housing Minister Dominic Raab (pictured) has potentially fixed a £350,000 problem for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). Back in January of this year, [...]
Incompetence? You decide.
The beancounters at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have outdone themselves this year. Yet again Councillors allowances and expenses now show three different figures [...]
Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone
Updated 1st June 12.55 You really couldn’t make it up. Seriously, in March 2018 Folkestone & Hythe District (FHDC) substantially completed the purchase of Ross [...]
Former Cllr Peter William Simmons
Too many of us no doubt believe that Councillors are a law unto themselves in our District. This in part could be supported by the fact the Monitoring Officer of Folkestone [...]
Little Densole Farm & farewell to the Lionel Messi of Planning.
Before we begin informing you about the upcoming Little Densole Farm Y16-0623-SH planning application; which is before the Planning & Licensing Committee [...]
The Long Read: P & R Installation Company Ltd.
Forged gas certificates, issues with non compliance of gas safety certificates, fire safety; pensioners left without heating for weeks, children unable to stay in their [...]
Cllr Roger Wilkins & Princes Parade.
Has Cllr Roger Wilkins fettered his discretion with regards to Princes Parade? Or has he predetermined both applications – Princes Parade & Otterpool Park? He is [...]
Otterpool Update: Homes England pay £9 million for land at Lympne Airfield.
On the 18th March we brought you the story that Homes England had purchased the land at the former Lympne Airfield. We can now tell you that Homes England have paid £9 [...]
Otterpool Park update – Compulsory purchase of land belonging to Berwick Manor Farm- Lympne.
“Hundreds of acres of land are to be compulsory purchased to allow for the building of a secondary school.” says Michael Owen a diary farmer at Berwick Farm, [...]