Folkestone’s £19.8m Gamble on Regeneration: Levelling Up or Covering Up?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s: A Brighter Future Levelling Up bid, submitted in August 2022, didn’t just seek investment—it issued a damning verdict on [...]
Nicola Keen
Folkestone £15.4m Town Centre Contract Sparks Transparency Concerns Over Tender Timeline
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is pushing ahead with a £19.8 million government-funded regeneration programme intended to revitalise key areas of the town centre. [...]
Where Is the Contract? Scrutiny Intensifies as ‘Folkestone: A Brighter Future’ Regeneration Scheme Set to Begin Without Public Record
With just days to go before diggers are due to break ground on the £20m flagship Folkestone: A Brighter Future regeneration scheme, serious questions are mounting over the [...]
Where’s the s106 money and the affordable housing Mr Pownceby?
On the 3 May 2016, Y15/1154/SH came before the planning committee. The applicant was David Pownceby, of Development House Limited. At the time he was the secretary of the [...]
Double helping of cock ups at last night’s full council
So it was a cock up, another one, but not the only one on last night’s agenda at the final full Council, before the elections on 4 May 2023. Cllr Keen (Lab) asked her [...]
Oportunitas update: True & Fair Bulls**t
Updated 28 March @ 11:05am How, how could this happen? How can the directors of Oportunitas be employees of the Council, and be elected Cllrs, when that’s not [...]
Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects
Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]
Council Temporary staff cost pass a million with a little help from a possible lie
Temporary staff costs for Folkestone & Hythe District Council between April and Nov 2022 have reached £1,116,860. We predicted back in Nov 2022, temporary Staff would [...]
Cost of Living Crisis – Yet more locals to become migrants due to being priced out of the local rental market.
A Bureau of Investigative Journalism analysis of 648 rental properties across eight districts of Kent shows 99% of those advertised over a single month (July 2022) were [...]
Otterpool Park Update: new Otterpool company set up
On Monday, The Shepway Vox Team announced who the developers would be to build out phase one of Otterpool Park. Today we can announce a new Otterpool Company; was set up on [...]
Otterpool Park Update: We Name Developers for Phase One
Exclusive Updated: 26/09/22 @16:43 Back in July when the sun was warm, skies were clear and talk of a drought was sweeping its way across the nation’s media, we [...]
Princess Royal called in to planning as ‘evidence of neglect’ is confirmed by Council
‘evidence of neglect‘, objections from The Victorian Society, KCC Archaeology, CPRE Historic Buildings Committee, and Save Britain’s Heritage as well as a [...]
Folkestone Seafront Development Causes Yet More Controversy
Sir Roger De Haan’s Folkestone Seafront Development has over the years caused a lot of controversy. Cllrs were refused sight of the legal advice the Council had [...]
Actions speak louder than words
The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party openly admit and state in their privacy policy they are a data controller in their own right: As they openly claim that they are a [...]
Will our Town & Parish Councils Do Something About Their Statutory ‘Duty’ To Comply With Crime & Disorder Act 1998
In the bleak midwinter when frosty wind made moan and earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, one Cllr went above and beyond his duty to catch thieves stealing the [...]
Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?
Could you be persuaded there is a legitimate interest, and it is in the public interest, or any value to the public or any section of the public, for Folkestone & Hythe [...]
The Long Read: Is £10 an hour too much to ask?
On the 24th July the full council resolved and approved the following amended Labour motion put by Cllr Connor McConville (pictured), Leader of the Labour Group at district [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council senior management handsomely rewarded for failure
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 [...]