Ming The Merciless

Folkestone Harbour’s Second Bite at the Cherry: Revised Development Plans Return to Planning Committee

June 9, 2025 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning Committee will once again consider major redevelopment proposals for the town’s historic harbour area, with a fresh [...]

‘Ongoing public access’ to Folkestone harbour arm threatened if 410 new homes not built

February 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated 12/02/25 @ 12:52 Sir Roger De Haan, a man who is “uncompromising when he sets his mind to something“, has via his company and agent, resubmitted revised [...]

Part 3: Sir Roger De Haan – Is he or isn’t he gentrifying Folkestone?

July 6, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated: 9 July @ 12:15 In 2001 & 2004, Nick Ewbank (pictured) then Director of the Metropole Arts Centre and later the Artistic Director / Trustee, of the The Creative [...]

Fountain Square, Folkestone

August 12, 2018 // 13 Comments

On Oct 25 2017 we brought you a blog post entitled “Criminal?” In brief it stated that the Folkestone Harbour Company Ltd (FHCL) had not signed up to the register [...]

Criminal?

October 25, 2017 // 1 Comment

There are a number of companies in the group and the “brand” known as “Sir Roger De Haan”. The “brand” relating to the harbour is as far [...]

Where has the Four Hundred Thousand Gone From Shepway District Council’s Data?

August 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

The data Shepway District Council (SDC) “accidentally” released prior to the weekend of 12th August 2017 totalled £2,237,457. In version two released by SDC on [...]

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