Otterpool Park Update: The first but not the last
Back in Jan of this year, Folkestone & Hythe District Council decided to set aside £3.675 million for land and property acquisition within the boundary of the Otterpool [...]
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Otterpool Park Update: £18.9 million for land/property acquisitions
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet meeting on the 14th Nov will recommend to full council that it borrows an additional £10 million (the annual interest [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Archaeology and a conflict of interests.
The outline planning application for Otterpool Park is “very likely” to be put forward in January 2019, according to a senior Council officer. Meanwhile on the [...]
Otterpool Park Update
The Planning application timetable for Otterpool Park according to confidential documents make it clear that the promoters Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) and [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council have signed two option to purchase land agreements with Sellindge farmers & Price Brothers signed option with Cozumel Estates.
EXCLUSIVE: Updated 17:30 Sat 29th Sept The Shepwayvox Team can reveal that Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have signed two option to purchase agreements [...]
Fraud? We’ll leave you decide that.
When information that our Council holds must be published freely, charging for it could be considered fraud. The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 makes it clear at [...]
For the Others from Elsewhere
In the Folkestone and Hythe District Council Core Strategy Review 2018 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18), policy SS2 (page 58) makes clear that between 2018/19 to [...]
Development Part 1: 129 days and counting
When democracy counts most in our council chamber, it is nowhere to be seen, well at least that appears to be the case in the Folkestone & Hythe District Council chamber, [...]
East Kent removes more Pollution than any other region via vegetation
According to a study produced for the UK Natural Capital accounts by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in conjuction with the Office of National Statistics (ONS), [...]
Otterpool Park update
At 20:37 on Dec 6th 2017, Dr Susan Priest, then Corporate Director – Strategic Development of Shepway District Council (SDC) – now Folkestone & Hythe District [...]
Otterpool Park update
It’s always good to make things clear at the very beginning. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) in relation to Otterpool Park are one of the developers [...]
Otterpool Park Update
Housing Minister Dominic Raab (pictured) has potentially fixed a £350,000 problem for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC). Back in January of this year, [...]
Cllr Roger Wilkins & Princes Parade.
Has Cllr Roger Wilkins fettered his discretion with regards to Princes Parade? Or has he predetermined both applications – Princes Parade & Otterpool Park? He is [...]
Otterpool Update: Homes England pay £9 million for land at Lympne Airfield.
On the 18th March we brought you the story that Homes England had purchased the land at the former Lympne Airfield. We can now tell you that Homes England have paid £9 [...]
Otterpool Park update – Compulsory purchase of land belonging to Berwick Manor Farm- Lympne.
“Hundreds of acres of land are to be compulsory purchased to allow for the building of a secondary school.” says Michael Owen a diary farmer at Berwick Farm, [...]
Otterpool Park update.
We’ll start with some good news. The probable Roman villa discovered on the Otterpool Park site will now become part of the development. In a conversation with Cllr [...]
The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.
Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]
Probable Roman Villa discovered at Otterpool Park
The remains of what is thought to be a Roman villa have been discovered by archaeologists at the Otterpool Park site. The team uncovered the remains last week and are now [...]
The Long Read: – Otterpool Park Update.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) & Cozumel Estates BVI Ltd as joint developers/promoters of Otterpool Park wish to build “low density housing on two [...]
Otterpool Park update: £281 million Housing Infrastructure Bid rejected.
Kent County Council’s £281 million Housing Infrastructure Bid for Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) has failed. Leader of Kent County Council, Cllr [...]
Just for the record Alistair
So it is adieu to the Chief Executive Alistair Stewart (Head of Paid Services) of Shepway District Council, with a £184,000 redundancy package. He’s laughing all the [...]
Otterpool Park update – Oh the irony.
On Thursday September 14th 2017 at 9.30am, 17 people gathered at 2 Marsham St London, the home of the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The 17 [...]
Otterpool Park update
It is now known that the Otterpool Park Masterplan will come before Cabinet on March 28th for their approval. Furthermore, between May & July 2018 Consultations, [...]
Otterpool Park update
For those of you who are not aware, Affinity Water will not be a statutory or non-statutory consultee with regards to Otterpool Park. In a short but concise email response to [...]
SDC draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan open for comments
So the draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan local is now open for you to comment on (closes March 5th 2018). Shepway District Council’s (SDC) draft [...]