otterpool park

Otterpool Park: More Than £76m Spent, 0 Homes Built — Ten Years After Folkestone & Hythe’s Garden Town Land Buy

December 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

More than £38,967,500 has been spent assembling land and property for Otterpool Park (according to the Land Registry and the council’s asset-register spreadsheet). Add [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Millions Budgeted While Outline Permission Still Unissued; Homes England Recognises ‘Market Failure’ as 31 Dec 2026 Long-Stop Nears

November 26, 2025 // 3 Comments

By any normal measure, a council that “resolved to grant” outline planning permission, in April 2023, for a new settlement of this scale (8,500 homes) would be sprinting [...]

Otterpool Park Exposed: How Folkestone & Hythe’s 10,000-Home ‘Garden Town’ Is Spending Millions Without Planning Permission

November 18, 2025 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is gearing up for yet another intense round of work on Otterpool Park – still without an actual planning permission in place, more [...]

Otterpool Park Update: FHDC and Homes England extend partnership

November 7, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated 12:30 – 7 Nov 2025 Folkestone & Hythe is trying to turn a long-promised green light into a legal permission. With the six-month Collaboration Agreement [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council sets aside £188,000 a month for debt

October 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has taken on £38 million in borrowing from other local authorities to fund its flagship Otterpool Park development – even though [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Otterpool Park LLP Signs Exclusive Deal With SNRG Before Legal Review, Raising Questions for Folkestone & Hythe District Council

August 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

On 27 August, the Shepway Vox Team published an update that has left more questions than answers about the governance of the Otterpool Park development. At the heart of the [...]

Otterpool Park Update: SNRG Sign Deal to Provide Smart Grid to Power 8,500 Homes at Otterpool Park by 2057

August 26, 2025 // 2 Comments

A funded private smart grid promises lower bills for residents, fewer headaches for housebuilders and a new income stream for the council — with every home due to be [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Exposed to £50 Million Risk, Still No Homes Built

July 7, 2025 // 3 Comments

Updated @ 14:26 Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) is now deeply financially committed to its flagship garden town, Otterpool Park. Over the last financial year [...]

Error or Oversight? Shepwayvox Name Appears in Otterpool Park Files, Raising Eyebrows

May 1, 2025 // 2 Comments

Shepwayvox questions “mistaken” inclusion in Otterpool Park files, raising broader doubts about accuracy. Shepway Vox, a local community blog, has raised concerns [...]

Otterpool Park: “on the cusp of moving into much welcomed delivery”

April 26, 2025 // 3 Comments

“Otterpool Park has been in gestation for a very long time, but we are now on the cusp of moving into much welcomed delivery” ~ Dr Susan Priest, 22 April 2025, [...]

Otterpool Park LLP: Financial Trajectory Analysis (2020-2024)

March 23, 2025 // 0 Comments

Otterpool Park LLP is the master developer responsible for delivering the Otterpool Park Garden Town project on behalf of the site landowner, Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

Otterpool Park update: Council approve deal with SNRG Ltd who has no operational experience of solar farms in the UK

February 13, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet last night approved the recommendations in Report Number C/24/68 to allow SNRG Ltd, to be the solar park provider at [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Proposed Solar Farm company will milk profit from sunshine and send it to one of the most notable tax havens in the world

February 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Making money from Solar energy is big business. Folkestone & Hythe Cabinet on Wednesday 12 February, will discuss the approval and recommendations to accept SNRG Ltd as [...]

Council set to borrow £90m to fund New Leisure Centre, Otterpool Park & FOLCA 2

February 5, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is set to borrow £90m on three capital projects which include £58m on Otterpool, £23m on a new lesiure centre and £7.5m on FOLCA [...]

Otterpool Park: Council propose another collaboration agreement with Homes England

November 23, 2024 // 2 Comments

Here we go again. At the full Council meeting this week (27 Nov), Cllr Jim Martin (Green) Leader and Cabinet Member for Otterpool Park and Planning Policy, will announce [...]

Update Otterpool Park: Financial return is the primary purpose, it’s not ancillary

February 3, 2024 // 5 Comments

You can’t have your cake and eat it ” Financial return being the main objective” of Otterpool Park, says the the Capital-Strategy 2024/25 at 5.4 of the [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council does not have the appetite or capacity to fund the Otterpool Park Project

October 12, 2023 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is severely constrained financially with regard to the Otterpool Park development of 10,000, due to several factors including any [...]

long term empty homes & second homes on the rise in the district

August 16, 2023 // 4 Comments

On the 26 July 2023, Cabinet Member for Housing & Homelessness Cllr Rebecca Shoob (Green) informed the world there were 1,540 households on the council housing waiting [...]

More Homes for Sellindge?

July 13, 2023 // 7 Comments

Once again Sellindge is under the spotlight. Quinn Homes wish to build 105 homes at Elm Tree Farm Sellindge. No planning application has been submitted yet, and no planning [...]

Otterpool Park update: Amnesia strikes Cllrs

June 20, 2023 // 6 Comments

There are moments when Cllrs suffer from amnesia. In fact, they sometimes invent facts which hold no truth in reality whatsoever. One such example is Cllr Jennifer [...]

Otterpool Park Update: A brief history of the political parties stance on the development

May 10, 2023 // 13 Comments

It is funny how political parties are prepared to do spectacular u-turns. This is true of all parties at national and local level. Regarding the Otterpool Park [...]

Otterpool Park: Outline Planning Application for 8,500 homes granted

April 5, 2023 // 18 Comments

Yesterday, 4 April 2023, the Outline Planning application for 8,500 homes at Otterpool Park was granted by 7 votes to 5, by Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s [...]

Provisional date set for Otterpool Park Planning application to be heard

March 1, 2023 // 6 Comments

So eight years and five months after Folkestone & Hythe District Council purchased the land at Otterpool Lane, from the Champney Brothers for £5m, the planning [...]

Council look to sell Princes Parade to Property Developer & possibly Otterpool Park as well

February 16, 2023 // 6 Comments

“Do what ever it takes to make it stack up” Cllr Martin was of Course refering to Princes Parade at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Valentines Day. He [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Consultation opens on new information submitted

February 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

Further information relating to the Otterpool Park outline planning application – Y19/0257/FH – has been submitted. Otterpool Park, a 756 hectare site, is where [...]

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