Part 1 Lydd Railway Station: A deal, a fire and some lies.
It begins on the 22 Feb 2022. On this date Bentley Parks Group Limited is incorporated and goes live on Companies House. The person of significant control of the company is [...]
Lydd
Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy
Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]
Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.
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 [...]
2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.
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.
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, [...]
Broadband slowly improving across the district
Once again the latest data released by Ofcom for Broadband connectivity and speeds across our area shows a very mixed bag. It shows that Hawkinge for instance has 38.4% [...]
Ask your local Parish, Town, District County council to put heat pumps under playing fields and parks
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 [...]
Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.
Across the Garden of England hundreds of landfill sites containing dangerous, hazardous and toxic waste, are according to a remediation consultant of 35 years, “time [...]
Second homeowners exploiting “unethical loophole” to claim £3.5m in virus cash
Throughout the pandemic second homeowners across our district have been able to claim approx £3.5 million in covid grants designed to help small businesses weather the [...]
FHDC look set to have highest Council Tax in Kent for eighteenth year in a row
On the 24 February 2021, Report A/20/08 will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Full Council at 7pm. This report concludes the budget setting process for [...]
Roll Out of Covid-19 Vaccine across the district to begin on the 11th January
Updated 24/12/20 @08:45 The Covid-19 Vaccine program has begun in the Folkestone & Hythe District. Oaklands Surgery in Hythe began the role out last week to patients in [...]
“Technical Issues” prevented Tontine Street Viability Assessment from being published says Council
In Feb 2019, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a new and revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) At Para 57 of the new and revised [...]
Council release largely unredacted Otterpool Park Viability Assessment
It’s done! It’s official, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have unredacted vast swathes of information contained within the Otterpool Financial Viability [...]
Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Marsh Companies & Charities helping out with food for pupils during half term
Before we begin, we wish the Town Clerk of Hythe a speedy recovery from Covid-19. Below is a list of businesses who have stepped up to the plate to help out with food for [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Continue to Spray Toxic Glyphosate Weedkiller in District Play Areas
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 [...]
Rural Areas in Folkestone & Hythe District Still Receiving Slow Internet Speeds Nearly Two Years On.
Nearly 60% of people living on Romney Marsh do not receive broadband speeds of 10 Megabytes per second (Mbps). On Average 51% of the district receive download speeds of [...]
Seven Projects receive £146,000 of £3 million High Street Fund So Far
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 [...]
There ain’t half been some clever b*st*rds
In the last five financial years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have only made two surpluses from their on street car parking. These were 2016/17 and 2017/18 where [...]
Turning round a ghost town. No shopper involvement necessary.
At the end of March 2019, 15% or rather 62 shops were vacant in the Primary and Secondary shopping areas of Folkestone town centre. Analysis by Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Cost & Usage of Shepway Libraries April 14 – Mar 17
Over the next couple of months KCC will be looking at ways of reducing their budget by £76.4 million. It is clear that Libraries, like all other areas KCC fund may have to [...]