Should councillors have to tell us if they are Masons?
Updated 31/10/21 @ 06:00am It’s often seen as a shadowy world of secret handshakes, favours for friends and strange initiation ceremonies – but should we be [...]
Philip Martin
Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy
“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]
Council misled auditor, but will they snitch on them to the appropriate regulator?
On the 22nd March 2021, the external auditor of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts – Grant Thornton – sent a letter to the Chair of the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking Environmental Law
New evidence has emerged which shows Folkestone & Hythe District Council are in clear breach of environmental law and in particular the Environmental Permitting (England [...]
More tales of the unexpected from the Royal Victoria Site owned by Leo Griggs
On the 8th Sept, 2020, Cllr Patrica Rolfe (Con) informed the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, that all four directors of Oportunitas Ltd – a company wholly owned by [...]
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.
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 [...]
£4.2 million in property investments by Oportunitas Ltd
Between Nov 2014 and Oct 2018, Oportunitas Limited, a company solely owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) has spent £4,266,592 on acquiring eleven [...]