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Fuel Poverty: Hythe sees largest rise in fuel poverty, while Folkestone Central remains in first position

March 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

While our MP Damian Collins received taxpayers cash to heat his second home, 11% of households in the Folkestone & Hythe District were living in fuel poverty in 2020, [...]

Is Sunningdale House Developments Ltd in financial difficulty?

January 6, 2023 // 5 Comments

Update Jan 6 @15:12 Update – At 14:00 today, ninety minutes after we published our report, Sunningdale have filed accounts with Companies House. They are not currently [...]

Housing development at former St Saviour’s Hospital site in Hythe, in doubt

December 29, 2022 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Council to press on with controversial Princes Parade redevelopment

December 16, 2022 // 1 Comment

Members should note however that there is a critical path which would need to be followed and this does not allow for any slippage, delay, or process frustration. Ever since [...]

Holidays in the sun and unpaid road tax by the Council

October 27, 2022 // 7 Comments

In Oct 1977, Holidays in the Sun was released by the Sex Pistols. It could be seen as an unofficial anthem for some Council Officers, as some of them have, according to [...]

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 [...]

Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments filleted accounts

June 30, 2022 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments has ‘acquired’ Princes Parade & Hythe Pool site

June 25, 2022 // 4 Comments

David Richard Pownceby (pictured) has held or holds directorships in 97 companies. Companies House shows that he is, or has resided in 68 companies as a director, person of [...]

Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund

June 22, 2022 // 3 Comments

Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) is never a man far away from controversy or fake news. Just recently we informed you he’d made a complaint about Fred Miller of [...]

Hythe Green Preservation Society improving the environment

June 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

This is a guest post Among all the talk of development and building over green spaces, Hythe Green is moving in the other direction. Following the successful partnership of [...]

Will the 7 Parish Councils who received £130,000 of CIL money allow residents to have input into how it’s spent?

April 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

The Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008, as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver [...]

More Russians investing in our district, but legitimately so.

March 11, 2022 // 1 Comment

It has to be said. It has to be made clear, spelt out explicitly. Not all Russians are bad. Those who live among us are no doubt just as horrified at the events in the [...]

Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.

September 9, 2021 // 2 Comments

No they didn’t see it. Yes they should have seen it, but it was for some inexplicable reason withheld from them. How do the Councillors who sit on the Task & Finish [...]

Princes Parade Update: Council seeks Leisure Centre Operator for 10 year £23 million contract

August 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

On the 23 August, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, let it be known they are seeking to procure the services of a suitable, experienced operator in the leisure [...]

Sandbanks – New Romney: Are local Tories ‘in hock’ to developers via their donations?

August 25, 2021 // 6 Comments

Sandbanks planning application was successful at last night’s Planning Committee. However, it’s clear the closeness of the developer Leo Griggs with members of [...]

Dangerous Pavements and Rampant Weeds blighting our beautiful district

August 21, 2021 // 2 Comments

“Appearance Matters” so said Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council at a full council meeting on the 19 Sept 2018. Since then he [...]

On Street Parking contract loses £1.1 million in eight of the last ten years

August 14, 2021 // 3 Comments

On and off street parking in the Folkestone & Hythe District is always a bone of contention. In the last ten financial years (Apr 1 – March 31) Folkestone & [...]

2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.

August 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

Southern Water owned offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, discharged untreated diluted sewage into the sea of the Folkestone & Hythe District coastline for two thousand [...]

Council purchase more than £75 million pounds of land & property in last 5 years.

August 2, 2021 // 8 Comments

Between Jan 2015 and July 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council and it’s company Oportunitas Ltd have purchased seventy three pieces of land and/or property, [...]

Council’s benefit algorithm is secretive, unevidenced, incredibly invasive and more likely than not discriminatory and unlawful

July 31, 2021 // 0 Comments

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems and algorithmic decision-making are mainstays of every sector of the global economy. From search engine recommendations and advertising [...]

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