Provisional date set for Otterpool Park Planning application to be heard
So eight years and five months after Folkestone & Hythe District Council purchased the land at Otterpool Lane, from the Champney Brothers for £5m, the planning [...]
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Sunningdale House Developments Ltd make offer to buy Princes Parade.
Updated: 26 Feb 23 @09:15am We can confirm that Sunningdale House Developments Limited, are the company who have made an offer to buy Princes Parade, from Folkestone & [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Consultation opens on new information submitted
Further information relating to the Otterpool Park outline planning application – Y19/0257/FH – has been submitted. Otterpool Park, a 756 hectare site, is where [...]
SAGA Enbrook site intended for future housing.
Updated: 08/02/23 @ 17:55 No doubt you’ve heard, and possibly read, SAGA is to close its Kent headquarters at Enbrook (Sandgate) due to the changes in working [...]
Part 42: Princes Parade – further evidence of incompetence by Council
It never rains around here it just comes pouring down, says Mark Knopfler on the song It Never Rains, from the Love Over Gold album. And after today’s installment of a [...]
Our public face throws hat into ring for forthcoming May elections
Before getting onto the part where our public face throws his hat into the ring for the forthcoming elections in May, there’s another matter to draw to your attention. [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Kent Ecological Advice Service query if Biodiversity Net Gain will exceed 20%.
It can’t be easy wanting to build a new town where you wish to build up to 10,000 homes. It would seem that Otterpool Park LLP, the master developer is running into [...]
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 [...]
Housing development at former St Saviour’s Hospital site in Hythe, in doubt
Detail, detail detail, the devil is in the detail. From the evidence publicly available it would appear for the former St Saviour Hospital reserved matters planning [...]
Part 5: Damp & Mould – “It’s not lifestyle”
He’s a keen amateur painter, but ever since, the issue of damp and mould in his home, he has been unable to paint, partly because the issue has affected his wellbeing, [...]
Princes Parade Update: Oscar Winning performances at full Council by Chris Farrell & Cllr Jim Martin
Where to begin, as there was so much discussed at last nights full Council, 30 Nov 2022. As they say though, the best place to begin is at the beginning So we’ll start [...]
Damn stupid policy
Updated: 29 Nov @ 9:20am In May 2022, Folkestone & Hythe District Council introduced a Housing repair & maintenance policy which includes damp and mould . It states [...]
Otterpool Park Update: First house for sale 1 Sept 2025
Andy Jarrett (pictured) the Managing Director of Otterpool Park LLP, has stated on the record, the date of the first house for sale at Otterpool Park development will be the [...]
Otterpool Team to give briefing on the updated Planning Application
How many times does it take for you to listen to somebody who informs you, they don’t want it, or they object to what your offering? The Otterpool Park site is where [...]
All work and spending on Bigginswood must stop with immediate effect due to lapsed planning permission
Land at Bigginswood, Cheriton, was purchased in Dec 2016 under urgency powers by the then Coporate Director Dr Susan Priest. The price paid by the Council was £1.5m; which [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Hidden Agenda’s and Fair Value
Ever since the first piece of land was purchased by the Council at Otterpool, in Dec 2015, for £5m from the Champney Brothers, the fair value of the land has risen by 540%, [...]
Cost of Living Crisis – Yet more locals to become migrants due to being priced out of the local rental market.
A Bureau of Investigative Journalism analysis of 648 rental properties across eight districts of Kent shows 99% of those advertised over a single month (July 2022) were [...]
Princes Parade: Lock, stock and two smoking farrell’s
Miss Chris Farrell – a former Military Police Officer – was passionate, very passionate when speaking about the petition she had lodged to be heard at Full [...]
Otterpool Park Update: We Name Developers for Phase One
Exclusive Updated: 26/09/22 @16:43 Back in July when the sun was warm, skies were clear and talk of a drought was sweeping its way across the nation’s media, we [...]
Ship Street – no return on investment for 40 – 60 years
In 2017, the council admitted their “proposal to purchase the land at Ship Street, is not one that will generate a substantial commercial return for the Council and there [...]
Unlawful behaviour by our Council further harms their reputation
We have longed stated that the levels of competency of some Council Officers is woefully inadequate. Once again, without any assistance from The Shepway Vox Team, they freely [...]
Part 1 – Oportunitas Limited incorporated unlawfully and unconstitutionally
Oportunitas Ltd is a Housing & Regeneration Company, which begun life as long ago as 18 Dec 2013. It was first discussed at Cabinet in Report C-13-58. From the outset, [...]
Cost of Living Crisis: “October frightens the sh*t outta me
Jane stands silently looking out across the English channel , while above her brooding clouds gather and seagulls head for shelter. Her faced etched with worry and concern, [...]
Princes Parade: Council confirm no contract with Sunningdale House Developments Ltd
Cllr Lesley Whybrow, Cabinet member for the Environment at Folkestone & Hythe District Council has confirmed that Sunningdale House Developments Ltd (SHDL) do NOT have a [...]
Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments filleted accounts
Princes Parade situated in Hythe, Kent, is a site of 7.4 hectares (18 acres) on this land, Folkestone & Hythe District Council wish to build a Leisure Centre and 150 [...]