otterpool park

Otterpool Park Update: Govt award £580,000 of funding for Otterpool Park

January 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

£580,000 worth of government cash has been allocated to deliver up to 10,000 homes at Otterpool Park, the Government have announced this morning. This fresh cash, announced [...]

Otterpool Park Update

January 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, Cozumel Estates [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Make £26 million Offer To Buy Reuben Brothers Land

January 5, 2020 // 3 Comments

Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council Corporate Director for Place and Commercial – John Bunnett (pictured), was in Nov 2019 given the green light to begin [...]

Otterpool Park update: Council spends £5.1 million on property in 2019

December 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

At the annual MIPIM property conference in Cannes in March of this year, the Department for International Trade (DIT) revealed the investment opportunity – Otterpool [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Council grants itself £100,000,000.

November 21, 2019 // 2 Comments

Updated 19:15 (21/11/19) It took 49 minutes for the request for the facility to draw down £100 million to be debated and finally agreed at last night’s full Council. [...]

Part 2: Plausible suspicion of wrongdoing

November 17, 2019 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council on Wednesday 20th Nov are to vote on the recommendation that additional capital funding of one hundred million pounds (£100,000,000 [...]

Otterpool Park Update. Council need £100 million to deliver project

November 13, 2019 // 3 Comments

Report Number C/19/23 which goes before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet on the 20th Nov 2019, makes the case that cabinet should recommend to Council that [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Ten Cllrs Champion High Quality Outcomes for Reuben Brothers & Council

November 3, 2019 // 6 Comments

Ten district Cllrs from all parties met behind closed doors at the inaugural Otterpool Park Working Group (OPWG), on the 7th Oct 2019. They were there to discuss how they [...]

Climate Change: Cllrs Will Be On The Wrong Side of History

October 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

On Monday we wrote about the Otterpool Park working group meeting behind closed doors. Later that day the Shepway Green Party (SGP) released a statement which reads: [...]

The Hypocrisy & Stupidity of our Elected Councillors

October 6, 2019 // 7 Comments

They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk our Cllrs. In the May elections all of the opposition parties Green, Lib Dem and Labour campaigned on a platform of [...]

Otterpool Park update

September 29, 2019 // 2 Comments

The Otterpool Park land assembly continues at pace. This time it is Cozumel Estates Ltd BVI the Council’s co-developer partner who have been in the market to purchase [...]

Coming Soon: Proposals for more money for Otterpool Park acquisitions, proposals to purchase Ship Street Gasworks and an EKH tenant consultation.

September 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

Coming soon to the council chamber – 16th Oct – are proposals and recommendations to be put to Cabinet. These proposals are to allow further spending on land [...]

Otterpool Park Update

August 29, 2019 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council since 2015 have purchased in excess of £30 million pounds worth of property. Some of it at their Otterpool Park development between [...]

Why Westenhanger Castle purchase by Folkestone & Hythe District Council will not come before Council for discussion.

August 22, 2019 // 7 Comments

On the 14th Nov 2018 Cabinet discussed Report Number C/18/44. It was made clear in this report that further purchases should be made to facilitate the development of the [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on Consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park since March 2016. Both sites which our council wish to [...]

F&HDC know the price of everything and the value of nothing

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s absolutely phenomenal. The value of Princes Parade, Hythe has risen dramatically. In March 2018, the land was worth a maximum of £80,000. After Princes Parade [...]

The Long Read: All is not what it seems as we slide slowly into the Jaws of Death

June 2, 2019 // 15 Comments

The Planning Committee which will meet for the first time in June, would do no better than looking at the newly released Land Use statistics from the Ministry of Housing [...]

“Confused.com”

April 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

I am confused. The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party have stated on the record that their policy towards Princes Parade & Otterpool Park is: Labour are opposed to the [...]

Local Elections May 2nd – Use your vote wisely

April 21, 2019 // 3 Comments

Tory led Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax in Kent for the last sixteen years. This means we pay more for our services than anyone else [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council lose £2 million pounds worth of assets

April 20, 2019 // 3 Comments

Hiding assets from the public prior to an election is what the Tory led Folkestone & Hythe District Council are doing. Over £2 million pounds worth of assets have [...]

Otterpool Park: Another significant data breach?

March 21, 2019 // 5 Comments

In the planning application Y19/0257/FH – Otterpool Park the document – Statement Of Community Involvement – has been submitted. At page 9 of the document [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Planning application – Y19/0257/FH – now live on Council’s website

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Y19/0257/FH | is the Outline Planning application for Otterpool Park. It is now live on the Council’s planning website. At present there are 27 documents uploaded. [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Some flesh on the bones.

March 15, 2019 // 4 Comments

EXCLUSIVE – updated 17:00 The joint developers of the Otterpool Park master-plan – Folkestone & Hythe District Council & Cozumel Estates BVI – [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC: Highest council tax rates in Kent since 2004/05

March 12, 2019 // 2 Comments

Since 2004/05 Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax rates (page 4 Table 2 or see chart below) in the whole of Kent. That’s sixteen [...]

Otterpool Park Update:

February 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

In early December 2018 we informed you the Folkestone & Hythe District Council purchased The Willows within the Otterpool Park Boundary, on the A20 between Barrow Hill [...]

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