Otterpool

FHDC Budget 2026/27: £6m Hythe Pool Spend, Grant Cliff-Edges and Hidden Costs for Residents

January 8, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) is proposing a budget that pours millions into leisure facilities – including a £6 million refurbishment of Hythe Swimming [...]

Council Progress Report: Folca, Coast Drive Beach Huts, Waste Water Works, and Road of Remembrance Make Strides

March 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

At the Full Council meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council on 2 April 2025, Cabinet Members will update Cllrs on progress made since the 26 Feb. The progress [...]

Chief Executive & Founder of proposed Solar Farm on Romney Marsh named in Paradise Papers

February 15, 2025 // 1 Comment

Updated 16 Feb – @ 16:00 The company behind the proposed South East Energy Park on Romney Marsh, Low Carbon, have links to the offshore tax haven of Jersey. Their Chief [...]

Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works

November 30, 2024 // 7 Comments

Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]

Otterpool Park: Public Consultation Wastewater Treatement Works to be held on 3 December

November 27, 2024 // 4 Comments

Otterpool Park LLP (owned by FHDC) will be holding a public consultation on plans to deliver a Wastewater Treatment Works, associated Wetlands and Primary Sub Station at [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Places for People pull out of Otterpool deal

October 18, 2024 // 5 Comments

Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, has spent [...]

Council debt repayments soar by 59% in single year.

June 7, 2024 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council debt repayments increased by 59% between 2021/22 and 2022/23. At of March 31, 2023 the total debt repayment stood at £3.263m. The [...]

Council will borrow £60.2 million in 2024/25, while debt repayments will rise by 44%

February 2, 2024 // 3 Comments

Ninety percent of politics is deciding who to blame – Meg Greenfield When you borrow money you normal set aside money to repay what you have borrowed, this generally [...]

New Green led Council abandons election pledge to build more affordable Council homes

October 24, 2023 // 7 Comments

The Council are looking to sell land once earmarked for 30 Council homes at Highview Moat Farm Rd Folkestone, to a private developer, meaning only 7 homes will be [...]

Solar Farms: Council explore 20 hectare site at Lympne and Pent Farm Postling applies for 27.7 hectare site

July 13, 2023 // 10 Comments

None come along for ages, then two at once. Solar Farms are fast becoming the fashion in our district, what with a planning application (23/0580/FH) lodged on land owned by [...]

Housing, Housing, Housing we need more affordable housing

April 18, 2023 // 13 Comments

There is no doubt we need to build more affordable homes in our district. I expect every candidate in this election, whether they belong to a party or not, would agree we [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council release map and cashflow model for Phase 1 of project

July 25, 2022 // 6 Comments

Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, across a [...]

Council needs to borrow £88 million to push forward projects, but fail to explain from where the money will come

February 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

According to data released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [DLHC] the amount of borrowing by Folkestone & Hythe District Council had been [...]

For six years the Council have been committing a criminal offence at Otterpool

January 26, 2022 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have since taking ownership of the land on the west side of Otterpool Lane, Sellindge (Lots 1, 2 & 3 below), been committing a [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent

November 22, 2021 // 5 Comments

It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]

Otterpool Park update: Borrowing, hidden soft market testing and a Dodgy man in charge

July 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

To purchase Folkestone racecourse site from the Reuben Brothers for £25 million; which included Monk’s private fishing lake, the council borrowed the money, but [...]

Shepway Green Party Cllrs under active investigation for breaking the law

March 19, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 20/01/21 @09:55 Historic England have began an investigation into elected Shepway Green Party Cllrs Jim Martin, Lesley Whybrow, and Georgina Treloar, who sit on [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council use 107 procurement contract waivers to bypass normal procurement rules to the value of more than £11 million.

December 16, 2020 // 6 Comments

The latest estimate of contract procurement fraud in local government was £4.4 billion pounds. Between 2016/17 and 2020/21 the Council have issued one hundred and seven [...]

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