Princes Parade saved, but Council deficit magically increases by £2m.
Before we begin our report by our public face, who attended the Annual General Meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council meeting last night, 24 May 2023, which saw [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats
Otterpool Park Update: A brief history of the political parties stance on the development
It is funny how political parties are prepared to do spectacular u-turns. This is true of all parties at national and local level. Regarding the Otterpool Park [...]
Domestos: We’re 99.9% sure Folkestone & Hythe residents will have highest council tax for twentieth year in a row.
It’s like Domestos, we can only be 99.9% certain that Folkestone & Hythe District Council will have the highest Council Tax of any district in Kent for the [...]
Actions must speak louder than words if we are to protect our wonderful environment.
On the 2nd May 2019, residents of the district elected five members of the Shepway Green Party. This is a party which alleges to be committed to improving our environment [...]
Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle
It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]
No Go or Go decision to be made in Jan 2021 on new Civic Centre at Otterpool Park
The Chief Exec of Folkestone & Hythe District Council – Dr Susan Priest, made it clear that the discussion around a new civic centre at Otterpool Park was to give [...]
Princes Parade: Will Oaklands Surgery get that £151,200 CIL money?
Updated 23/09/20 Regardless of one’s personal position on Princes Parade, one thing should be perfectly clear and that’s the cost of the legal fees spent by [...]
Changes afoot to Overview & Scrutiny are decided behind closed doors continuing the lack of Openness & Transparency.
We have long said the effectiveness of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) has been unacceptable and that it has been the lion which never roared. It has been a [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council set up two new companies to deliver the project and land registry docs show deal to buy racecourse still not completed.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set up two companies which will look after the delivery of the 10,000 homes Otterpool Park development. The first company [...]
Otterpool Park Update: The Council grants itself £100,000,000.
Updated 19:15 (21/11/19) It took 49 minutes for the request for the facility to draw down £100 million to be debated and finally agreed at last night’s full Council. [...]
Climate Change: Cllrs Will Be On The Wrong Side of History
On Monday we wrote about the Otterpool Park working group meeting behind closed doors. Later that day the Shepway Green Party (SGP) released a statement which reads: [...]
Part 2: Why does Folkestone & Hythe District Council encourage profiteering from homelessness?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are bribing private landlords to house homeless families. Throwing money away doesn’t address the causes of the problem. Landlord [...]