Folkestone

Section 21 Eviction: When Missing Landlord Paperwork Can Stop Possession

May 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

A Folkestone tenant facing a steep rent rise and a no-fault eviction notice may have more protection than the landlord appears to think There’s an old truth in housing law: [...]

Folkestone’s Got Its Hat On

May 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

There are days when Folkestone can look like it’s had a hard paper round. We know the issues. We write about them often enough. Empty shops. Rough sleeping. Public money [...]

Epstein Files: Folkestone Reference Leads to Turner Painting, Not Local Scandal

April 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Jeffrey Epstein files are not entertainment. They’re part of the public record of a man accused and prosecuted by US prosecutors of sexually exploiting and abusing [...]

Rick Davies, Romney Marsh and the Making of Supertramp

April 25, 2026 // 2 Comments

We went looking for a local legend and found something better: a real Kent story. Not the inflated version, with Supertramp supposedly recording its first album on Romney [...]

Kent County Council FOI Delays: ICO Finds KCC Breached Freedom of Information Law

April 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council missed the legal deadline on a request about Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone meeting with senior KCC councillors, and the Information Commissioner had to [...]

Folkestone Library Move: KCC Reopens in Sandgate Road as Grace Hill Faces Disposal

April 22, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council is reopening the library service in a privately owned Sandgate Road building while moving the old Grace Hill library towards disposal. Creative Folkestone [...]

Folkestone Invicta Promotion Stats: Goals, Points and the Players Behind the Title

April 13, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone Invicta are up, and the lazy version of the story would stop there: champions, promotion, party, end of article. But the numbers underneath this season are better [...]

Folkestone Triennial: The Hard Questions Behind Creative Folkestone’s Impact Report

April 9, 2026 // 0 Comments

Back in 2007, as Folkestone’s culture-led reinvention was being set out, Sir Roger De Haan gave a revealing account of himself. In video footage from that period, he [...]

David Wimble and the long trail of false claims and official corrections

April 3, 2026 // 3 Comments

For years, David Wimble (pictured) has mixed life as a councillor with life as a publisher. That is not the problem. The problem is what happens when the man with the [...]

Folkestone Beach Book Swap Draws 2,073 People and Sets World Record

April 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

More than 2,000 people gathered at Sunny Sands for what organisers say was a world-record book swap, turning Folkestone’s shoreline into a joyful celebration of stories, [...]

FHDC Approves £2.42m Folkestone Sports Centre Grant to Reopen Pool

March 26, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet has unanimously approved a £2,421,250 capital grant to The Sports Trust to reopen Folkestone Sports Centre’s pool. The [...]

Folkestone Library Move: KCC Puts Grace Hill Building on Disposal Track

March 24, 2026 // 2 Comments

Kent County Council has now put Folkestone’s old Grace Hill library on the disposal track while pressing ahead with a new library home at 14 Sandgate Road. The paperwork [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre Grant: Public Money, Private Asset, Big Questions for FHDC

March 18, 2026 // 2 Comments

On Wednesday 25 March, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet is due to decide whether to award The Sports Trust a £2,421,250 capital grant to reopen the [...]

Leas Pavilion Folkestone: the £20m Claim the Filed Accounts Do Not Support

March 17, 2026 // 3 Comments

For years, Folkestone was sold a dream in glossy renders: restored heritage, luxury flats and a grand old pavilion brought back to life above the Channel. What the town has [...]

Folkestone Affordable Housing: How 14 Homes Were Lost at Stoneleigh House, Tram Road

March 13, 2026 // 1 Comment

An insolvency report, two auction catalogues and one carefully chosen council word tell a bleak story about how Folkestone lost 14 affordable homes and may yet lose the [...]

Leas Pavilion Folkestone: Off-Plan Flat Buyers Left Exposed as Receivers Sell the Freehold

March 3, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folkestone’s stalled Leas Pavilion scheme has spent long enough as a visual punchline: hoardings, silence, and two concrete cores that look less like “luxury living” [...]

Madeira Walk Landslide: Folkestone Leas Playground Cliff Stabilisation Cost Rises to £400,000

February 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Madeira Walk was shut on 29 February 2024 because the ground above Folkestone’s Lower Leas playground looked as if it might go. Two days later, on 2 March, it did: the [...]

Folkestone Town of Culture 2028 Bid: Come Together, Tell Our Story, Make It Happen

February 17, 2026 // 1 Comment

A £3 million national prize is on the table for the UK’s first Town of Culture in 2028. Folkestone has decided to take a run at it — and, for once, the first step [...]

Saga Sells Acromas Underwriter to Ageas: The 20-Year Insurance Partnership Explained

February 15, 2026 // 2 Comments

For years, Saga has sold insurance under its familiar brand to Britain’s over-50s. But behind the scenes, it was also carrying the most complicated part of the insurance [...]

Hythe Bay Bathing Water Warnings: Sewage Pollution and E. coli from Hythe to Dungeness

February 13, 2026 // 0 Comments

Hythe Bay’s “no swim” problem didn’t start in the 2020s. It has a paper trail that runs from the mid-1970s, through the coliform “fail” tables of the 1980s, into [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre: Cabinet Approves £2.4m Reopening Grant Ahead of Full Council Vote

February 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet has agreed to include a one-off £2.4 million grant aimed at reopening Folkestone Sports Centre and cutting its future [...]

Sunshine Bistro Licence Revoked After Home Office Review Hearing

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe councillors have revoked Sunshine Bistro’s premises licence, ending its authorisation to sell alcohol, after a review brought by the Home Office. [...]

Sunshine Bistro Folkestone: Owner Faces Losing Alcohol Licence Over Illegal Workers

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Council hearing today will decide fate of Sunshine Bistro after immigration enforcement raid uncovered four illegal workers Sunshine cafe, the popular town centre restaurant [...]

Folca 2 in Folkestone: Council Awards £2.4m Refurbishment Contract as Town-Centre Medical Centre Plan Advances

January 28, 2026 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has awarded a contract worth £2.42m (excluding VAT) to carry out phase-one refurbishment works at Folca 2 – in purple below [...]

Folkestone Road of Remembrance Landslip: Closure Timeline and Kent County Council’s £5m Stabilisation Plan

January 27, 2026 // 1 Comment

For Folkestone, the Road of Remembrance is not just a convenient cut-through between the harbour area and The Leas. It is also symbolic: a named route tied to the town’s [...]

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