otterpool park

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

October 12, 2023 // 4 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 // 2 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 [...]

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 [...]

Review of 2022: Trial dates, Prison Sentences, Financial Irregualrities and Damp & Mould

December 31, 2022 // 5 Comments

It’s been a tumultuous year by anyone’s standards. A war in Europe, a cost of living crisis, the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; Liz Truss lasting just [...]

Otterpool Park Update: First house for sale 1 Sept 2025

November 19, 2022 // 4 Comments

Andy Jarrett (pictured) the Managing Director of Otterpool Park LLP, has stated on the record, the date of the first house for sale at Otterpool Park development will be the [...]

Otterpool Team to give briefing on the updated Planning Application

November 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

How many times does it take for you to listen to somebody who informs you, they don’t want it, or they object to what your offering? The Otterpool Park site is where [...]

Education will help the cumulative impact of sewage pollution

October 22, 2022 // 1 Comment

Water laps at 26 miles of our wonderful districts coastline, and along the banks of the two main rivers which flow through the district, the East Stour and the Nailbourne. It [...]

Inflation & Interest Rates have profound knock on effects to Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

October 21, 2022 // 1 Comment

For anybody who has been living on another planet, it is clear the recent events at national level have had a major impact on the lives of individuals, companies and local [...]

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: £5m on more land.

June 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

It’s official, with an extra five million on land acquisitions and the final overall fee paid to the masterplanner Arcadis, the costs of Otterpool Park, where the [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Fundamental errors in updated Otterpool Park planning application

May 8, 2022 // 6 Comments

After seven years and more than £55m spent, the updated Otterpool Park Planning Application – Y19/0257/FH – has been submitted and is out to consultation now. [...]

Cllr Monk has lost the financial plot regarding Otterpool Park

April 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

On the 24th Nov 2021, Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, rose in the chamber to answer a question put by Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab). She [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Yet more c*ck ups by the council

March 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council tendered two contracts for masterplanning for Otterpool Park, where the Council wish to build up to 10,000 homes over 30 years. Both [...]

Otterpool Park hasn’t cost anything says Cllr David Monk

February 24, 2022 // 9 Comments

More lies again in the Council Chamber last night at full Council, and this time by Cllr David Drury Monk (Con) – the Occupational Therapist – and leader of [...]

Interest payments on Council debt costs to rise by 88% in 2022/23.

February 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, like all other Council’s can only borrow against future revenue streams, as legislation prohibits borrowing against capital [...]

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 [...]

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