Oportunitas Ltd

Oportunitas: 11 Years In — Paper Profits, Still No Taxpayer Return – A Shepway Vox Team Investigation

December 2, 2025 // 0 Comments

Oportunitas Ltd a company wholly owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council has never made a true profit for the council taxpayer since its incorporation in 2014. In [...]

Oportunitas Ltd: Debt, Valuations & Failures at Folkestone & Hythe District Council

May 18, 2025 // 1 Comment

Established in 2014 as a wholly owned company of Shepway District Council (now Folkestone & Hythe District Council), Oportunitas Ltd was intended to be a bold municipal [...]

Council’s Property Development Company Otterpool Park request a further £80m

April 13, 2023 // 7 Comments

Perhaps Cllr Susan Carey was right after all when she said we should sell Otterpool Park in February 2023. I say that as the company set up to deliver the Otterpool Project, [...]

Part 1 – Oportunitas Limited incorporated unlawfully and unconstitutionally

September 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Oportunitas Ltd is a Housing & Regeneration Company, which begun life as long ago as 18 Dec 2013. It was first discussed at Cabinet in Report C-13-58. From the outset, [...]

Leo Griggs seeking to make £1.5 million on sale of part of Royal Victoria Hospital site

October 1, 2021 // 6 Comments

Leo Griggs purchased the Royal Victoria Hospital site via his company RVH Folkestone Ltd from KCC for £1.25 million on 1st Nov 2018. Just three years on he now wants to sell [...]

Leo Griggs in discussions to sell flats at Sandbanks – New Romney – to Council

August 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

On the 15th Dec 2020, planning application 20/0690/FH – Sandbanks, Coast Road, Littlestone, New Romney, went before the planning committee. The applicant was Leo Griggs [...]

Council purchase more than £75 million pounds of land & property in last 5 years.

August 2, 2021 // 8 Comments

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, [...]

Council misleading residents about Cllrs allowances and expenses again.

June 27, 2021 // 1 Comment

On June the 12th we published the allowances of all Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs for the financial year 2020/21. The Council are omitting the fact, that three Cllrs [...]

Otterpool Park Update: More property purchased

September 27, 2020 // 1 Comment

While the covid-19 virus has risen and fallen and risen again, those charged with keeping Otterpool Park Garden Town – where up to 10,000 homes may be built if planning [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council the gift which keeps on giving

September 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

Data they say, is the new oil. Each month Folkestone & Hythe District Council produce their monthly payment to suppliers data which continues to be a rich seam to drill [...]

Oportunitas Ltd – all change

October 29, 2018 // 1 Comment

Cllr Claire Jeffrey (pictured below left) will be replaced as the senior director of Oportunitas Limited as of the 31st Oct 2018, according to an [...]

£4.2 million in property investments by Oportunitas Ltd

October 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

Between Nov 2014 and Oct 2018, Oportunitas Limited, a company solely owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) has spent £4,266,592 on acquiring eleven [...]

Price tag

February 23, 2018 // 6 Comments

Between 50 and 60 jobs will be axed at Shepway District Council. The redundancy forecast costs are £2.3 million according to SDC’s, Future Operating Model [...]

Something Is Rotten In The District Of Shepway. Part 2

October 10, 2017 // 4 Comments

On the 30th Oct 2015, we brought you the post “Something Is Rotten In the Borough Of Shepway” which was about the purchase of the property – 15 Grace Hill, [...]

How To Investigate Companies.

October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Would you like to learn how to ‘Investigate a Company’? Would you like to learn about Shepway District Council’s company Oportunitas, Cozumel Estates, MF & L Ltd [...]

Yours For A Million Or More.

September 5, 2017 // 2 Comments

The number of known million pound properties in Shepway has accelerated considerably in the last few years. The first known million pound property in Shepway – Lympne [...]

SDC and its company Oportunitas Ltd

August 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

SDC set up a company by the name of Oportunitas Ltd, registered at Companies House, after the elections new directors were added for obvious reasons and available to view for [...]

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