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Otterpool Park update – Compulsory purchase of land belonging to Berwick Manor Farm- Lympne.

May 24, 2018 // 2 Comments

“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.

May 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

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.

April 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

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

April 27, 2018 // 12 Comments

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.

April 24, 2018 // 2 Comments

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.

April 19, 2018 // 2 Comments

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

March 25, 2018 // 3 Comments

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.

March 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

March 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

March 11, 2018 // 3 Comments

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

February 14, 2018 // 0 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 [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.

February 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park Update.

January 28, 2018 // 3 Comments

Shepway District Council in report C-17-76 – Delivering Otterpool Park – make it clear at Para 1.3 that there is now a 3rd major party interested in securing [...]

£3.6 Million set aside for more land at Otterpool.

January 17, 2018 // 3 Comments

According to documents released at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (page 78) last night, Tuesday 16th Jan, a further £3,675,000 has been set aside for land [...]

Speculative Discussions.

January 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

Channel Ports Ltd & Stop 24 are in ongoing speculative discussions about extending the Lorry Park at Stop 24 by another 300 places. It currently has space for 200 [...]

What We Mean When We Say “The Council”

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

After 3 years of writing about Shepway District Council and its policies and plans we thought it might be useful to say what we mean when we say “the Council“. [...]

Otterpool Park Update

December 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

It would appear that the Otterpool Park development has now been given a planning application number. Y17/0183/SH received pre-planning application advice from Shepway [...]

Pimping Otterpool Park @ Kent Construction Expo 2017.

December 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

In our last post we informed you that the total funding to SDC from central Government to date, amounts to £1,250,000. Paid over three tranches: £750,000, £345,000 and [...]

£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.

November 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]

Update on Otterpool Park

November 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Warwick Smith in The Guardian sets out that Companies “don’t give their money away for nothing. There is an understanding (rarely made explicit) that large [...]

Perseverance Wins The Day

October 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

The people of Shepway are “selfish” according to Cllr David Drury Monk (pictured). It is not the first time he has used such strong and disparaging language about people [...]

A Consultation, A Trip to The Gulf and Other News About Otterpool Park

October 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Otterpool Park Collaboration Board have met 13 times between Aug 16 – Sept 17. They met to discuss and develop the Otterpol Masterplan through its timetable; which [...]

Otterpool Park Consultation & An Update.

October 11, 2017 // 3 Comments

Last night at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, our public face sat alone in the public gallery, while Cllrs received a briefing about Otterpool Park. They were given [...]

Otterpool Park Update.

September 7, 2017 // 1 Comment

On the 4th July 2017 Sajid Javid (pictured) Secretary of State for the Department of Communities & Local Government (DCLG) announced, that £2.3 billion of funding via [...]

The Long Read: Cozumel Estates Limited a British Virgin Island Company.

August 27, 2017 // 4 Comments

After more than a 7,000 mile journey and a little over 30 hours in the air to visit the British Virgin Islands (a known offshore tax haven) we can reveal a little more about [...]

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