John Bunnett

Otterpool Park Update: Council purchase racecourse for £26.2m, while spreading fake news across the district

February 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, have agreed on a price of £26.2 million to purchase Folkestone racecourse land from the Reuben Brothers company – Cozumel [...]

John “Buy Me A Car” Bunnett

January 28, 2020 // 16 Comments

John Bunnett (pictured) is currently Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Corporate Director for Otterpool Park. He is the man who is able to spend the £100 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Westenhanger Station Expansion

January 26, 2020 // 3 Comments

They haven’t told them and they haven’t told you, but then again that’s just par for the course. Once again Folkestone & Hythe District Council have [...]

Dunning Kruger Effect Alive And Well At Folkestone & Hythe District Council

January 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

If you’ve ever dealt with someone whose performance stinks, and they’re not only clueless that their performance stinks but they’re confident that their performance is [...]

Otterpool Park Update

January 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, Cozumel Estates [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Make £26 million Offer To Buy Reuben Brothers Land

January 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council Corporate Director for Place and Commercial – John Bunnett (pictured), was in Nov 2019 given the green light to begin [...]

Otterpool Park update: Council spends £5.1 million on property in 2019

December 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

At the annual MIPIM property conference in Cannes in March of this year, the Department for International Trade (DIT) revealed the investment opportunity – Otterpool [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council senior management handsomely rewarded for failure

June 30, 2019 // 2 Comments

The top three tiers of management at Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have been handsomely rewarded for their failure to manage and oversee the Swale [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC to purchase Connect 38 Ashford, Kent

March 9, 2019 // 6 Comments

Updated 18:50 Sunday 10th March On Wednesday 13th at 5pm the Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet (F&HDC) will meet at the Civic Centre. Agenda Item 11 & [...]

Bagging a bargain by undue influence?

March 2, 2019 // 7 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) offered a number of residents of Shorncliffe Crescent (pictured below) the chance to buy small parcels of land at the end of [...]

Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions

November 10, 2018 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest [...]

The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.

April 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]

Alistair’s £184,000 golden goodbye

March 24, 2018 // 6 Comments

So long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye to Mr Alistair Stewart Chief Executive of Shepway District Council, on the 31st March. When Mr Stewart drives of into the sunset [...]

Job losses and efficiency savings at Shepway District Council.

February 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

“…during these difficult times we [the management] will be making every effort possible to ensure that the impact on staff of these cuts is as small as [...]

The Long Read: Could Computer Algorithms & Robots Run SDC More Effectively & Efficiently?

December 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

At the start of April 2016 Shepway District Council (SDC) employed 385 people; by March 2017 this had slightly reduced to 374. SDC will soon be in a position where it will [...]

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