FHDC Renters’ Rights Policy Wasn’t Ready When Tenants Needed It
Most private landlords had until midnight at the end of Sunday 31 May to give tenants the official Renters’ Rights information sheet. By Monday morning, FHDC didn’t [...]
Gill Butler
Folkestone & Hythe Council’s Housing Shame: Five Years of Inaction and Budget Underspends
Updated @ 17:18 Let us begin, as all good auditors do, with the Three Es of public service delivery: Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness. Economy is all about cost—how [...]
Cllrs, Social Housing Tenants & Visitors equality rights broken by Council
One of these days, you the good people of Folkestone & Hythe District are going to get good local government – and you are not going to like it. But while [...]
Is the Council’s Housing Allocation Policy Lawful?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is, without doubt, a hard-pressed council with extremely high levels of housing need, insufficient accommodation to meet that need, [...]
Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy
Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]