Dymchurch Recreation Ground
It all began with two simple sentences in the minutes of the 11 Jan 2017 (agenda item 2) report made by Dymchurch Parish Council. The two simple sentences said: This led to [...]
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Incompetence? You decide.
The beancounters at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have outdone themselves this year. Yet again Councillors allowances and expenses now show three different figures [...]
Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone
Updated 1st June 12.55 You really couldn’t make it up. Seriously, in March 2018 Folkestone & Hythe District (FHDC) substantially completed the purchase of Ross [...]
Little Densole Farm & farewell to the Lionel Messi of Planning.
Before we begin informing you about the upcoming Little Densole Farm Y16-0623-SH planning application; which is before the Planning & Licensing Committee [...]
The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.
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 [...]
Shepway District Council to consider selling Folkestone Indoor Bowls Site.
Shepway District Council (SDC) are considering selling off Folkestone Indoor Bowls Centre on Cheriton Road Folkestone. It is understood that two offers to purchase the site [...]
Kent Names In The Paradise Papers
He was an accountant to a galaxy of stars before he was sentenced to five years in prison, in Jan 2016, for evading £6 million in tax. On the fifth of November 2017, The [...]
Criminal?
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 [...]
Damian Collins MP £17,600 Worth of Donations & that Glastonbury Ticket.
Damian Collins MP registered £17,600 in donations on July 17 2017. Mr Paul Francis (pictured), Political Editor of the Kentish Express for some reason chose to focus on [...]
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 [...]
SDC pay £1.5 Million to a Convicted Criminal for 10 Acres of Land.
Adrian Kirby (Pictured) a former UK waste disposal operator and onetime member of the prestigious Guards Polo Club who illegally conspired to spy on his environmental [...]
80 Sidney Street, Folkestone & The Panama Papers
EXCLUSIVE The Prime Minister, Theresa May “reserved some of her most strident conference rhetoric for the subject of tax avoidance” at the Tory Party conference, [...]
SDC Gagging Orders increase 82% in 2015/16
As of the 30th June 2016 Shepway District Council placed their unaudited accounts for 2015/16 online. We would like to draw your attention to page 79 of the accounts and [...]
The Usual Suspects
The Great and the Good, or rather the Usual Suspects have found their way onto the FOLKESTONE COASTAL COMMUNITY TEAM: Jennifer Childs – Town Clerk/Lead Emily Arnold [...]