Hythe

More tales of the unexpected from the Royal Victoria Site owned by Leo Griggs

September 16, 2020 // 3 Comments

On the 8th Sept, 2020, Cllr Patrica Rolfe (Con) informed the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, that all four directors of Oportunitas Ltd – a company wholly owned by [...]

Kingston Homes want to develop The land on the north side of Station Rd, Hythe, Kent

September 2, 2020 // 2 Comments

Kingston Homes have made public a document seeking consultation with the public (As of Aug 2020) for the development of the land on the north side of Station Road, Hythe, [...]

Princes Parade: £8,000 Discrepancy in Council legal costs and will Oaklands Surgery get that £151,200?

August 22, 2020 // 3 Comments

Regardless of one’s personal position on Princes Parade, one thing should be perfectly clear and that’s the cost of the legal fees spent by Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Council’s On Street Parking Contract lost £600,000 in five of the last seven financial years

August 19, 2020 // 6 Comments

Here’s a shocker – for five out of the last seven financial years, On Street parking has NOT made money for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). In [...]

Where’s The Money & Where’s The Data?

July 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation; and once again Folkestone & Hythe District Council humiliate themselves for NOT being transparent. According to the [...]

Princes Parade: The Fight Goes On

July 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Save Princes Parade Group (SPPG) have been informed that they’ve lost their initial request for permission to appeal the Judicial Review they lost. Their [...]

Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

Part 2: Crusade Building Services Ltd in Safehands?

June 8, 2020 // 6 Comments

Crusade Building Services Ltd (CBS) lost their CheckaTrade and Trading Standards approval in 2018/2019 due to many complaints of poor practice and breaches of planning and [...]

Changes afoot to Overview & Scrutiny are decided behind closed doors continuing the lack of Openness & Transparency.

May 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

We have long said the effectiveness of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) has been unacceptable and that it has been the lion which never roared. It has been a [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Continue to Spray Toxic Glyphosate Weedkiller in District Play Areas

May 21, 2020 // 7 Comments

Glyphosate was originally patented as a chemical pipe cleaner in 1964. In 1969 it was patented as a herbicide. Glyphosate is poison. That’s the first thing to understand [...]

Council’s Costs to Defend Princes Parade Judicial Review, Rise by Staggering 85%.

April 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Since we last reported on payments made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to their Solicitors’s of choice – Attwells Solicitors LLP – to defend [...]

More than 3,000 Children Living In Poverty In Folkestone & Hythe District.

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Child poverty in the Folkestone & Hythe district wards, has risen for the fifth year in a row. The number of children aged under 16 living in relative or absolute poverty [...]

Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Cllr Ray Field’s Betrayal Over Princes Parade Reaches Private Eye Magazine.

March 18, 2020 // 10 Comments

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 – [...]

We counted them all out and We counted them all back

January 22, 2020 // 2 Comments

At last night’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, agenda item four was Report C/19/63 Proposed Disposal of Fernfield Lane Hawkinge. Fernfield Lane is owned by FHDC and [...]

Seven Projects receive £146,000 of £3 million High Street Fund So Far

January 19, 2020 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £3 million High Streets Regeneration Fund was first announced in report C/19/21. It was established to support and help high [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Financial Irregularities

December 31, 2019 // 6 Comments

Irregularities in Cllrs expenses claims and paying P & R in breach of the Council’s contract both happened in 2018/19. Dr Susan Priest was the Head of Paid Service [...]

Ross House: Five Fire Risk Assessments And Still Significant Issues Remain

December 27, 2019 // 2 Comments

Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone is home to 43 people. Since Folkestone & Hythe District Council began housing people there in April 2018, five fire risk assessments have [...]

What’s It All About?

December 24, 2019 // 1 Comment

“What’s it all about?” my wife asked me one evening, just before she fell asleep. I didn’t know, but I didn’t like to admit it, and I lay awake all night thinking [...]

Christmas Angels Helping The Homeless

December 20, 2019 // 2 Comments

It’s impossible to spend any stretch of time outside at the moment without noticing two things: the rain and the seemingly unstinting rise in rough sleepers across our [...]

GP Patient Numbers Grow By Just 1% in 2019

December 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Conservative Manifesto 2019 at page 23 states: In order to help communities cope better with pressures on public services, we will ensure that new GP and school places [...]

The Hypocrisy & Stupidity of our Elected Councillors

October 6, 2019 // 7 Comments

They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk our Cllrs. In the May elections all of the opposition parties Green, Lib Dem and Labour campaigned on a platform of [...]

Otterpool Park update

September 29, 2019 // 2 Comments

The Otterpool Park land assembly continues at pace. This time it is Cozumel Estates Ltd BVI the Council’s co-developer partner who have been in the market to purchase [...]

242 Homeless Households Moved Out Of Our Communities In Thirty Months.

September 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

More than 240 households have been sent away from the Folkestone & Hythe District and placed into temporary accommodation elsewhere in the last thirty months, as there [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Greens, Labour & Lib Dems failing the people of our district.

September 25, 2019 // 6 Comments

A motion is not something you do while sitting on the privy reading the morning paper online via your tablet. No! A motion is a request made by a councillor for an issue [...]

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