otterpool park

Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes

August 9, 2020 // 9 Comments

£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Land Assemby for Otterpool Park cost £37.7 million to date

August 6, 2020 // 2 Comments

On the 4th Feb 2020 it was announced Cllr Ian Meyers (UKIP) had stepped down from his Cabinet position “to allow him more time to care for family members.” [...]

Cllr Monk’s Private Fishing Lake Reaches Private Eye Magazine Courtesy of The Shepwayvox Team

July 30, 2020 // 1 Comment

Once again the Shepwayvox Team have manged to reach the coveted pages of this week’s Private Eye Magazine (No 1527, 31 July – 13 Aug 2020 page 21). This time [...]

Shepway Green Party Flatter to Deceive

June 29, 2020 // 4 Comments

On the 12th June 2020, The Shepway Green Party stated on their website the following: We cannot stop Otterpool and it would be dishonest to pretend that we could. Indeed, the [...]

Otterpool Park Update: £53 million Spent To Provide Monk His Own Private Fishing Lake & Development Is In The Wrong Location

June 20, 2020 // 6 Comments

Monk gets his own private fishing lake. The Council have spent £51 million so far, and not a single house has been built. And a transport report concludes Otterpool is being [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Cllr Jim Martin “Shocked” Council appoint Tibbalds using a waiver for phase 1 of the Otterpool Park, at a cost of £120,000.

June 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

At a behind closed doors meeting of the Otterpool Working Group in April, an officer of the Council let slip that Tibbalds had been appointed as consultants to prepare [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Refuse Cllrs to See the Legal Advice on Otterpool Delivery Vehicle.

May 28, 2020 // 3 Comments

In our last post about Otterpool Park we spoke about the development vehicle – Otterpool Park Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and its set up. It’s clear that [...]

Otterpool Park Update

May 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Tomorrow the Cabinet will meet to discuss report Report Number C/20/02 -which makes recommendations about the Otterpool Park Delivery Vehicle, how it will be structured and [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council set up two new companies to deliver the project and land registry docs show deal to buy racecourse still not completed.

April 30, 2020 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have set up two companies which will look after the delivery of the 10,000 homes Otterpool Park development. The first company [...]

Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Seven local authorities in Kent have sold more than 1,300 council homes under right to buy (RTB) and made in excess of a £120 million, according to the latest figures [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council purchase racecourse for £27.6m, while spreading fake news across the district

February 6, 2020 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, have agreed on a price of £26.2 million to purchase Folkestone racecourse land from the Reuben Brothers company – Cozumel [...]

John “Buy Me A Car” Bunnett

January 28, 2020 // 16 Comments

John Bunnett (pictured) is currently Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Corporate Director for Otterpool Park. He is the man who is able to spend the £100 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Westenhanger Station Expansion

January 26, 2020 // 3 Comments

They haven’t told them and they haven’t told you, but then again that’s just par for the course. Once again Folkestone & Hythe District Council have [...]

Cllrs Under Criminal Investigation By Kent Police for Leaking Commercially Sensitive Information

January 19, 2020 // 5 Comments

Exclusive A handful of Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs are under criminal investigation by Kent Police; for leaking the commercially sensitive information about how [...]

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: Council Offer £26.2 million to purchase Racecourse from Reuben Brothers

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 // 4 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 [...]

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