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Kent’s buses are in line for £78.2 million of new funding. On paper, it is money to improve routes, cut fares and upgrade vehicles. In practice, a good part of it will be [...]
Mylecke NV’s Surprise Over Leas Pavilion Sale Raises Questions
It should come as no surprise to Mylecke NV that the Leas Pavilion site is now listed for sale on Rightmove. The circumstances leading to this outcome are clear and [...]
Chief Executive & Founder of proposed Solar Farm on Romney Marsh named in Paradise Papers
Updated 16 Feb – @ 16:00 The company behind the proposed South East Energy Park on Romney Marsh, Low Carbon, have links to the offshore tax haven of Jersey. Their Chief [...]
Otterpool Park update: Council approve deal with SNRG Ltd who has no operational experience of solar farms in the UK
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet last night approved the recommendations in Report Number C/24/68 to allow SNRG Ltd, to be the solar park provider at [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Proposed Solar Farm company will milk profit from sunshine and send it to one of the most notable tax havens in the world
Making money from Solar energy is big business. Folkestone & Hythe Cabinet on Wednesday 12 February, will discuss the approval and recommendations to accept SNRG Ltd as [...]
Leas Pavillion crumbles, while money for development flows in from offshore company
As parts of the Leas Pavillion, Folkestone, begin to crumble unexpectedly, the developer, Olivier Georges Jacques Daelemans, is lucky that work is under way to protect and [...]
Start Me Up
Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]
Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors
Back in 2013, Peter Read, who runs the Kent Independent Education Advice website, uncovered a financial scandal relating to academies. In his article published on 22 Sept [...]
Yet Another Visionary Plan for Folkestone Town Centre
Following the announcement of a “visionary” Place Plan in October 2020, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have just revealed that We Made That LLP have been awarded [...]
Encore via two offshore locations take over chasing debtors for Affinity Water
They are the UK’s biggest debt collector, Cabot Credit Management. Cabot buys debts and loans in arrears from banks, utilities, telecom companies and local authorities, and [...]
Part 2: KCC Pension Fund is divesting from fossil fuels but still investing in countries who do not uphold LGBT rights
The KCC Pension Fund total investments were valued at £6.6bn on 31 December 2019. Just three months later, on the 31st March 2020, the pension value had shrunk to £5.7 [...]
KCC Pension Fund slowly but surely divesting from assets which kill humans and destroy the planet
For its 135,000 investors it is good news, so is it for the rest of us. Kent County Council’s Pension Fund is slowly but surely divesting pension assets from [...]
Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.
At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]
When one leaves, another arrives
On April 23rd 2018 a company was registered on the Luxembourg equivalent of Companies House. The name of this company was F55 Sterling Folkestone S. à r. l., Luxembourg an [...]
The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park
It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t make sense.. Marlie Farm Holiday Park (New Romney, Kent) was purchased by Harts Holiday Camps Limited on the [...]
Queens House, Folkestone another offshore property
Queens House (pictured below) Folkestone is another property in our glorious district owned offshore. The owners, who we’ll come onto shortly, wish to turn the upper [...]
The Long Read: Ownership of Pensand House & Marlborough Court Hythe, a little clearer.
It’s complicated, but then it always is when you are looking at opaque offshore structures. The tenants in Pensand House (pictured below after revamp) & Marlborough [...]
£200 million has gone to 3 Kent County Council PFI contractors
Kent County Council (KCC) have three Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Contractors who between them receive payment for 11 schools all of which were built in the noughties. [...]
Shepway Property Owned Offshore.
Yesterday, the Land Registry released all the title deeds of all tax haven/offshore companies which own property in the UK. There are, according to the Land Registry, 98,583 [...]
Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay.
Before we begin our trip down Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay,, we want to explain briefly and broadly what a “Tax haven” is. So we have best left that to [...]
Planning Application Coming Soon For Old Silver Spring Site Folkestone.
Proposals are expected to come forward for a planning application of the 3.8 hectare (9.39 acres) for the former Silver Spring site, in the near future. The land is owned by [...]
The Long Read: Money Laundering & Tax Evasion In Shepway.
Tax Evasion, Money Laundering & Bankruptcy Fraud are not things one would normally believe happen in Shepway, that happens elsewhere, not here, but alas it does happen [...]
Feasible Yes, But Will It Happen?
Nestled at the entrance to the Hythe end of Dymchurch sits New Beach Caravan Park. The site is owned by Park Holidays UK Ltd. To get to the ultimate UK company who owns Park [...]
Like Father, Like Son?
In the sleepy village of Smeeth, halfway between Folkestone & Ashford (Kent), sits a lovely house, just of Plain Road, called The Lodge (red pin). According to the Land [...]
Money For Nothing & Your Cheques For Free, & A Little About Land Value Tax
Sir Roger De Haan owns a sprawling 1500 acre farm called Horton Park Farm . In the map below it is the area marked in red. According to the latest figures available from [...]