Land Banking Leads to a Grand Cayman Lifestyle
“Buy land,” said Mark Twain. “They’re not making it any more.” “Then once you’ve bought it, sit on it for a while, apply for planning permission, and sell it on [...]
Housing
Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Consult On Homelessness Strategy
During the covid-19 pandemic, the street homeless in Folkestone all but disappeared. The government funded a scheme called “Everyone In” which housed homeless people [...]
Otterpool Park Update: It’s Official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Now Own The Racecourse
It’s official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council now own Folkestone racecourse, according to the land registry. The deal has taken close to six months to [...]
Shepway Green Party Flatter to Deceive
On the 12th June 2020, The Shepway Green Party stated on their website the following: We cannot stop Otterpool and it would be dishonest to pretend that we could. Indeed, the [...]
Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review
Updated 17:25 – 22/06/20 The Judicial Review brought by the Save Princes Parade over the planning permission for the development of Princes Parade (Hythe) has been [...]
Here We Go Again: Gas Safety Issues At East Kent Housing
Updated 17:00 22/06/20 More sources than the 57 varieties of Heinz have stepped forward and informed the Shepwayvox Team that as of 1st June 2020 there were well in excess [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Cllr Jim Martin “Shocked” Council appoint Tibbalds using a waiver for phase 1 of the Otterpool Park, at a cost of £120,000.
At a behind closed doors meeting of the Otterpool Working Group in April, an officer of the Council let slip that Tibbalds had been appointed as consultants to prepare [...]
“It’s nothing short of scandalous” as 40,000 plus EKH council tenants data placed at “significant security and operational risk”
“The servers that the [East Kent Housing] system runs on are due for replacement and the Northgate software is out of support. This poses a significant security and [...]
Lions led by donkeys – the death throes of East Kent Housing
This is a guest post from several members of staff from East Kent Housing Strange though it sounds, the lock-down couldn’t have come at a better time for the shambolic [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council Refuse Cllrs to See the Legal Advice on Otterpool Delivery Vehicle.
In our last post about Otterpool Park we spoke about the development vehicle – Otterpool Park Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and its set up. It’s clear that [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Tomorrow the Cabinet will meet to discuss report Report Number C/20/02 -which makes recommendations about the Otterpool Park Delivery Vehicle, how it will be structured and [...]
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 [...]
Council’s Costs to Defend Princes Parade Judicial Review, Rise by Staggering 85%.
Since we last reported on payments made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to their Solicitors’s of choice – Attwells Solicitors LLP – to defend [...]
Councils in dispute with gas contractor while setting a date to transfer East Kent Housing services to councils
On the 13th December 2019, the four chief execs of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet Councils became the directors of East Kent Housing. The Shepwayvox [...]
District homeless housed in B&B’s where county line gang members operating from during covid-19 crisis
County line gang members are operating from B&B rooms in the district where Folkestone & Hythe District Council have housed vulnerable homeless people during the [...]
Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million
Seven local authorities in Kent have sold more than 1,300 council homes under right to buy (RTB) and made in excess of a £120 million, according to the latest figures [...]
Arrest Those Developers Officers
They have been called “predatory”, “underhanded”and “unscrupulous” by campaigners who have successfully prevented Gladman Development plans to build hundreds of [...]
More than 5,300 empty homes in Kent and they’re worth an estimated £1.9bn
The number of empty homes across Kent has risen for the third consecutive year to more than 5,300, the highest level since 2012, according to official figures. The number of [...]
Cllr Ray Field’s Betrayal Over Princes Parade Reaches Private Eye Magazine.
Cllr Ray Field’s defection to the Tories and betrayal of Princes Parade reaches this week’s edition of Rotten Boroughs in Private Eye (No 1518 20 March – [...]
New Plans for Folkestone’s Neglected Leas Pavilion
Long on words but short on detail is how one could sum up the Leas Pavilion and Proposed Residential Development public consultation, which took place yesterday in the [...]
How a doctor who has never seen you can say you’re fit enough to sleep on the streets of Kent
Judges have warned councils against relying on the firm’s advice and overturned decisions determined by its assessments, calling them “irrational” and “tainted” and [...]
Council Spend Twenty Four Thousand on Princes Parade Judicial Review To Date
Other peoples money, who doesn’t like spending other peoples money? So far the Council have spent a little over £24,000 with Attwell Solicitors, who are defending the [...]
Consultation hardly a resounding success
Not one of the four Councils of East Kent, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, and Thanet received more than seventeen percent support from tenants and leaseholders [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council purchase racecourse for £25.2m, while spreading fake news across the district
Folkestone & Hythe District Council, have agreed on a price of £25.2 million to purchase Folkestone racecourse land from the Reuben Brothers company – Cozumel [...]
Hythe Anxiety
As can be seen in Private Eye Magazine, Page 16, Rotten Boroughs, Issue No 1515 7th Feb – 20 Feb 2020 We’d like to say thank you to the person/s who sent this to [...]