Turner Schools: part 1 – Folkestone Academy.
A confidential document obtained by the Shepwayvox Team shows there may well be up to 42 job losses at Folkestone Academy over the coming months. Folkestone Academy was [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Investigation into Cllrs Expenses & Allowances underway.
One week ago today we brought you the blog post about Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cllrs Expenses & Allowances for the financial year 2017/18. In the post we [...]
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Never let the truth get in [...]
He’s back.
Update: 15/05/18 Folkestone & Hythe District Council have informed our public face by way of Facebook the Following statement: Hi Bryan. Alistair is returning for a [...]
Your councillors allowances & expenses Apr 17 – Mar 18
Once again for the third time in four years there are anomalies in our Cllrs allowances & expenses. The people who are responsible for ensuring Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Otterpool Park update.
We’ll start with some good news. The probable Roman villa discovered on the Otterpool Park site will now become part of the development. In a conversation with Cllr [...]
Affordable housing – how do we get more of it?
The latest figures from the National House Building Council show the biggest quarterly fall in the number of new houses since 2012. New builds in the first three months of [...]
Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd Hythe – here we go again.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We have brought you not one, not two, but three posts about Redlynch House on Hillcrest Rd, Hythe. Now we bring you a [...]
The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.
Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]
Probable Roman Villa discovered at Otterpool Park
The remains of what is thought to be a Roman villa have been discovered by archaeologists at the Otterpool Park site. The team uncovered the remains last week and are now [...]
The Long Read: – Otterpool Park Update.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) & Cozumel Estates BVI Ltd as joint developers/promoters of Otterpool Park wish to build “low density housing on two [...]
Cllr Jacqui Meade “Calls In” s73 Folkestone Seafront Development application.
Cllr Jacqui Meade (pictured) ~(Lab) of Folkestone Town Council has sent via email a request to call in the s73 Folkestone Seafront Development (pictured above) application. [...]
Silver Spring site – Y18/0066/SH
Some things are not what they always appear to be. If you scratch the surface you’ll see a whole lot more, such is the case with the former Silver Spring site, Park [...]
Record Breakers 2
Temporary Staff Costs at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have broken the million pound barrier for the first time ever. In the financial year 2017/18 they reached, [...]
Otterpool Park update: £281 million Housing Infrastructure Bid rejected.
Kent County Council’s £281 million Housing Infrastructure Bid for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) has failed. Leader of Kent County Council, Cllr [...]
Our continuing GP Crisis.
According to NHS Digital data The New Surgery, Canterbury Road Folkestone has taken on more patients than any other Surgery in the Folkestone & Hythe District. In April [...]
The Long Read: The Leas Pavilion.
In 2007 The Radnor Estate sold to Churchgate Developers for £3.2m a lease of 150 years on the Leas Pavilion and surrounding land. Planning Permission is due to lapse on the [...]
Record Breaker
Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) Bed & Breakfast costs for the financial year 17/18 are £1,164,836. When compared to last years financial figures when FHDC [...]
Gender Pay Gap across our District.
Thousands of working women in Folkestone & Hythe District have this week discovered what they may have know for certain or long suspected – that they are working in [...]
Here we go again: Another nuclear burial ground?
First of all and this is very important, Don’t Panic. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) have requested further information from the The Department for [...]
Some Nuns, a Porn Baron and Folkestone & Hythe District Council
How are a bunch of Nuns, a former Porn Baron and Folkestone & Hythe District Council [FHDC] related to each other? Land, that’s what links them. The nuns are the [...]
A complete shit.
On Tuesday the 3rd April at 9.30am at Hythe Town hall an extraordinary meeting was scheduled. Cllrs met to discuss Y17/1042/SH – commonly known as Princes Parade. It [...]
Sir Roger’s seafront development s73 application deferred.
The s73 application – Y171099SH (Folkestone Seafront Development) made by The Folkestone Harbour Limited Partnership has been temporarily deferred. This is to allow [...]
Sellindge Y16/1122/SH, – Quinn Estates & The Bucknell Trust
Back in Dec 2016, we brought you the blog post – Houston we have a problem – which was about planning application Y16/1122/SH in Sellindge. Now back then the [...]
Incompetence? You decide.
In late November 2017 we brought you a story about the theft of a Car Park Pay and Display machine in SDC’s High Knocke Car Park. An FoI request made by our public face [...]