Hythe Town Council

Community Infrastructure Levy: How Much CIL Your Town or Parish Council Got in Folkestone & Hythe — and Where the Money Went (FHDC Data)

December 9, 2025 // 1 Comment

Across Folkestone & Hythe District, a distinct slice of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is passed out of the District Council’s hands and into the accounts of Town [...]

Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”

August 10, 2022 // 4 Comments

“This was totally foreseeable and Hythe Town Cllrs have done nothing to prevent it”, is how one residents sees the recent incursion by Travellers onto the South [...]

Cllr Rory Love’s application for Public Inquiry into stopping up road at Princes Parade accepted

August 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

Kent County Council Cllr Rory Love OBE (Con) (pictured) & Andy Weatherhead (Con) petition application for a public inquiry into the stopping up of the road at Princes [...]

“Action expresses priorities.”

July 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi The 14 and 16th of June 2021, were the two hottest days in Hythe, Kent, reaching 28 degrees On the night of the [...]

Hythe Town Council want you to eat plants and ignore our armed forces

June 28, 2021 // 7 Comments

Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 On Thursday 24 June 2021, Hythe Town Council meet at the Town Hall at 6.20 pm to discuss the following Agenda item 16.Notice of Motion No 109 [...]

More double faults served up at Hythe Lawn Tennis Club

May 11, 2021 // 6 Comments

Following our Long Read last month detailing a ‘turning circle’ installed by Hythe Lawn Tennis Club without planning permission, Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

The fig leaf which is hiding a climate emergency in our district

May 10, 2021 // 2 Comments

We must plant more woodland as we have but a fig leaf left. Trees need to be looked after: you don’t just plant them, you grow them. And we need to plant and grow 4 [...]

Ask your local Parish, Town, District County council to put heat pumps under playing fields and parks

May 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

One of the things which has come out of the pandemic is how important nature is to us all. Our green spaces have provided us with places to relax and enjoy nature at close [...]

The Long Read: Hythe Tennis Club no planning permission for car park extension

April 11, 2021 // 11 Comments

When is a turning area for vehicles not a turning area for vehicles? When it’s a “car park extension”. On 22 March, Hythe Lawn Tennis Club put up [...]

Just to walk my dog

April 5, 2021 // 5 Comments

This is a GUEST post For the last four decades I have walked my dogs along the firing ranges between the Grand Redoubt and Fisherman’s beach, or the beach at Dymchurch. [...]

Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle

December 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]

Hythe Town Council staff laid low by Covid-19

October 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Late Sunday we informed you that a member of staff from Hythe Town Council (HTC) had tested positive for Covid-19. It now transpires a further member of staff has also [...]

“Zoom is malware” and Folkestone & Hythe District Council & Town & Parish Councils Intend To Use It.

April 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

It has been brought to our attention that Folkestone & Hythe District Council have trialed Zoom – a video conferencing with real-time messaging and content [...]

Regulations allow “virtual” public meetings of councils from Saturday 4th April 2020

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Updated 11:45am The new regulations allowing local councils, be they County, District Town or Parish to hold meetings virtually come into force today, 4th April 2020. These [...]

Part 2: Hythe Against Crime

August 1, 2019 // 4 Comments

Hythe has recently suffered a spate of break-ins to its shops and robberies from its cafes. On May 1st 2016 we first wrote about a company known as Hythe Against Crime. At [...]

Pipe down and don’t mention the overcharging and the Billion pound KCC accounts not signed off

June 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

A senior member of Shepway Green Party Cllr Martin Whybrow (pictured), a KCC and Hythe Town Councillor has suggested that our public face and the Shepwayvox Team “pipe [...]

A distinct lack of substance in the local Tory Party.

October 1, 2018 // 2 Comments

Dire Straits is what it is, financial dire straits to be precise. In a meeting of the local executive of Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Association on Friday 28th Sept [...]

Second bite of the cherry: Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe

September 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe sits majestically on the higher slope which over looks Hythe. It has sweeping and valuable views out across Hythe bay and any [...]

The dead and Hythe Bowling Club

September 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

How is it possible dead people, four dead people at that, to remain on a title deed lodged at the Land Registry? It is not the first time we have discovered dead people still [...]

Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd Hythe – here we go again.

May 3, 2018 // 2 Comments

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We have brought you not one, not two, but three posts about Redlynch House on Hillcrest Rd, Hythe. Now we bring you a [...]

The Long Read: That motion and a little about financial viability assessments.

April 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

At last Thursday’s (12th April) extraordinary Hythe Town Council meeting at Hythe Town Council, agenda item 4 was to discuss Planning Application Y17/1042/SH – [...]

A complete shit.

April 6, 2018 // 4 Comments

On Tuesday the 3rd April at 9.30am at Hythe Town hall an extraordinary meeting was scheduled. Cllrs met to discuss Y17/1042/SH – commonly known as Princes Parade. It [...]

The Closing down of Democracy – Part 2

February 8, 2018 // 1 Comment

In England only, the Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 – Statutory Instrument 2014/2095 (hereafter the Regs) amended s1 of the 1960 Act with effect [...]

Y16/0866/SH Redlynch House, Hythe. How Does It End?

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

On April 26th our Public Face, brought you the the blog post below (while standing for election for KCC). Today at the Planning & Licensing Committee (7pm) we’ll [...]

Dodgy Dave At It Again? I’ll Leave You To Decide That.

April 26, 2017 // 5 Comments

Geoff Miles (pictured) – co-owner Maidstone TV Studio & Chair of the Kent & Medway Economic Partnership, was according to the KM Kent Business the fourth most [...]

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