Folkestone Seafront Development

Development still not connected to sewage system nine years after being informed by Southern Water there was not enough capacity.

October 5, 2021 // 3 Comments

A Shepway Vox Team Investigation has discovered that as of today 05/10/21, according to Southern Water, the development known as Shoreline (Where the land meets the Sea) or [...]

Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy

September 30, 2021 // 1 Comment

“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]

Only the little people pay tax

June 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

So it has begun. One can now register one’s interest in purchasing a flat at the the under construction Folkestone seafront development opposite the Leas lift, owned by [...]

Folkestone Seafront Development: The Trees Are All Gone

April 13, 2021 // 3 Comments

It would seem once again that site activity within the Seafront Development area has raised both eyebrows and concerns. If you didn’t visit the area at the right moment, [...]

Folkestone Seafront Development gets curiouser and curiouser says Alice

January 29, 2021 // 8 Comments

Updated 05/02/21 07:10am Here’s a curious thing. The reserved matters planning application for the first building (Plot B) of the Folkestone Seafront Development [...]

The Long Read: Planning excites passion.

August 1, 2020 // 6 Comments

Planning has always been the hottest of all local government topics. It’s the one most likely to stir the passions of local people and yet no sooner have those passions [...]

Folkestone Seafront Development Causes Yet More Controversy

June 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Seafront Development has over the years caused a lot of controversy. Cllrs were refused sight of the legal advice the Council had [...]

Defending the public interest

December 23, 2018 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Cllr Jacqui Meade “Calls In” s73 Folkestone Seafront Development application.

April 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

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. [...]

The Long Read: That motion and a little about financial viability assessments.

April 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

At last Thursday’s (12th April) extraordinary Hythe Town Council meeting at Hythe Town Council, agenda item 4 was to discuss Planning Application Y17/1042/SH – [...]

Secrets breed mistrust Sir Roger.

January 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Secrecy can be a nasty practice with people often keeping secrets for all the wrong reasons. Secrets breed mistrust. Today we understand a representative or representatives [...]

Second Homes, Public Money & A Little Bit About Art.

September 12, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Folkestone Triennial is called “Double Edge”, as in “double edged sword“, so says the Curator, Lewis Biggs (pictured) The duality he speaks about [...]

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