Housing

Evidence shows Council failing to provide sufficient affordable housing

December 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Many of you will recall your school reports from days gone by. No doubt many of you can recall the phrase, could do better, associated with them. Well this is an apt phrase [...]

Council seeks Judicial Review against Planning Application 21/2389/FH

December 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is seeking a judicial review of a Planning Inspector’s decision, made on the 6 August 2024. This decision relates to planning [...]

Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works

November 30, 2024 // 7 Comments

Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]

Biggin Wood Cheriton: Not a house or commercial unit built after 8 years of council ownership

November 25, 2024 // 2 Comments

Eight years on since the Council purchased the Biggins Wood land (pictured below) in Cheriton, for £1.5m, not one of the 77 homes,including 23 affordable homes; or the 54 [...]

Otterpool Park: Council propose another collaboration agreement with Homes England

November 23, 2024 // 2 Comments

Here we go again. At the full Council meeting this week (27 Nov), Cllr Jim Martin (Green) Leader and Cabinet Member for Otterpool Park and Planning Policy, will announce [...]

Folkestone Harbour Development goes back out for reconsultation

November 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

Perchance you have not heard, the controversial Folkestone Harbour Planning Application 24/0505/FH, which is a reserved matters application for Phases 5 and 6 (comprising [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Places for People pull out of Otterpool deal

October 18, 2024 // 5 Comments

Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, has spent [...]

Housing: Rent rises and rent controls

September 25, 2024 // 1 Comment

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) recently released the increases of average rent across each district in England, Scotland and Wales. It is clear from their data, the [...]

Leas Pavilion and the connection to offshore companies

September 18, 2024 // 3 Comments

Now that Oliver Daelemans company Gustavia Ltd has parted ways with Leas Pavilion Development Ltd – who own the site, who then is behind Leas Pavilion Development [...]

Leas Pavilion development partners go their own ways

September 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

On the 1 Sept 2024 we wrote the following blog Leas Pavilion: Time to sell or liquidate. One day later a Press Release by Gustavia who acted as the development manager for [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council still sorting its sh*t out

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Council purchased the Champney land in December 2015. The land cost £5m. This was the beginnings of the Otterpool Park Garden Town Dream, where the Council hope to build [...]

Leas Pavillion: Time to sell or liquidate.

September 1, 2024 // 1 Comment

The Leas Pavillion remains unfinished. It was granted planning permission on the 27 November 2020. To date all we have are the twin elevator towers protruding above the [...]

Harbour Plots 24/0505/FH: Can you carry on commenting & were we fairly consulted?

May 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

So the deadline (16 May) for commenting on the Harbour Plots reserved matters application 24/0505/FH has past. Comments had reached 488 comments, as of 9am, on the 17 May [...]

Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting?

February 14, 2024 // 2 Comments

Down in the Creative Quarter of Folkestone, all is not well. Tenants in properties leased to Creative Folkestone (CF) by the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, have received [...]

FHDC: Dodgy data, but one shouldn’t shoot the messenger

February 12, 2024 // 1 Comment

Something does not stack up. One has to realize that one doesn’t shoot the messenger, but the person/s, department, responsible for passing the message to the Freedom [...]

Failed businessman David Pownceby starts two new construction companies

November 1, 2023 // 2 Comments

Some people have more front than Selfridges, so the saying goes. And one such person is David Richard Pownceby (pictured). Having recently sent two companies into voluntary [...]

Leas Pavillion not being held up by planning or utility issues

October 30, 2023 // 1 Comment

For many it will not come as a surprise, but all work on the Leas Pavillion site has come to a halt. The site is owned by Leas Pavilion Development Limited. They purchased [...]

New Green led Council abandons election pledge to build more affordable Council homes

October 24, 2023 // 7 Comments

The Council are looking to sell land once earmarked for 30 Council homes at Highview Moat Farm Rd Folkestone, to a private developer, meaning only 7 homes will be [...]

More than 1000 households forced into temporary accomodation in last five years at a cost of £1.9m

October 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

Temporary Accommodation is accommodation provided in connection with a local authority’s statutory homelessness obligations under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996, (as [...]

Council spend £22,720 on 629 medical assessments from company who never meet the patient

September 11, 2023 // 2 Comments

Tucked away in the recesses of the Council’s website is a little known document, which to the vast majority of residents never has a bearing on your life. But for some [...]

One household every five days placed into temporary accommodation out of Folkestone & Hythe District

September 5, 2023 // 1 Comment

In real life, poverty and dignity are not good bedfellows. Making good and clean floors are all well and good. But modern day virtues are easier to hold when you rise every [...]

Sunningdale House Developments Ltd & Princes Parade

August 13, 2023 // 2 Comments

In the sunniest January since 1959, Folkestone & Hythe District agreed Sunningdale House Developments Ltd (Sunningdale House) had won the contract to deliver the proposed [...]

Update on Development House & Sunningdale House Developments Ltd

August 11, 2023 // 8 Comments

The latest news regarding Development House Limited, a company owned by David Pownceby, will slide into voluntary liquidation as of the 17 Aug. However, in the last few days [...]

150 homes at former Foxwood School Hythe will not be going ahead anytime soon.

August 7, 2023 // 1 Comment

On 31 August 2016, Foxwood School, Seabrook Road, Hythe, Kent, CT21 5QJ closed its doors for the last time. The 15.5 acre site (6.3ha) was at the time of closure owned by [...]

Breaking News: Sunningdale House Developments Ltd to go into administration.

August 4, 2023 // 5 Comments

At midday today, all Sunningdale House Developments Limited staff were invited to a staff meeting, via zoom. At this meeting they were all informed that the company would be [...]

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