Otterpool Park LLP

Otterpool Park LLP: £2.2m Interest Owed on £24m Folkestone & Hythe District Council Loans — Explained

October 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

Otterpool Park LLP—the master-developer vehicle wholly controlled by Folkestone & Hythe District Council—has leaned ever more heavily on council loans while tangible [...]

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 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: 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 [...]

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: 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 [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council still sorting its sh*t out

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Council purchased the Champney land in December 2015. The land cost £5m. This was the beginnings of the Otterpool Park Garden Town Dream, where the Council hope to build [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Under Starters Orders

March 26, 2023 // 13 Comments

So we are under starters orders. The Otterpool Park planning application; which we said at the beginning of this month had a provisional date of 4 April 2023, has now been [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Kent Ecological Advice Service query if Biodiversity Net Gain will exceed 20%.

January 30, 2023 // 1 Comment

It can’t be easy wanting to build a new town where you wish to build up to 10,000 homes. It would seem that Otterpool Park LLP, the master developer is running into [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Hidden Agenda’s and Fair Value

October 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

Ever since the first piece of land was purchased by the Council at Otterpool, in Dec 2015, for £5m from the Champney Brothers, the fair value of the land has risen by 540%, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: new Otterpool company set up

September 28, 2022 // 2 Comments

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

September 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Part 2: Are the Council cooking the books?

August 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Recently we asked the question: Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books? We asked this knowing they do not have the process or procedure within their [...]

Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns

August 8, 2022 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]

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 [...]

Cllrs need to step up their game understanding council finances.

June 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

In the 10 years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been publishing their spend data, £179m or 48% of the spend has been on premises related expenditure, as the [...]

Otterpool Park notice of planning application submitted and will be decided by Xmas 22

April 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

Updated: 01.4.22 @21:10 According to a public and legal notice in the Evening Standard, a notice of a planning application for Otterpool Park (Y19/0257/FH) has been [...]

Overview & Scrutiny can ‘follow the council pound’ to discover where the £88 million in borrowing will come from.

February 18, 2022 // 2 Comments

The Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC) has long been the lion which never roared. The OSC can go on site visits, conduct public surveys, hold public [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Reuben Brothers Mystery and our Public Rights of Way

February 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Wherever you travel in Sellindge [Kent] you find land earmarked for development, being developed, or land banking by one of these four companies. Cozumel Estates Gladman [...]

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