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Folkestone Folca 1 Flats Approved as Council-Owned Building Sale Questions Remain

May 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone’s former Debenhams has taken another step out of limbo. On Tuesday evening, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee approved [...]

Folkestone Harbour Development Approved Despite Legal Failures on Equality Law

June 17, 2025 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s planning committee has approved the major seafront development—without a single councillor raising, mentioning, or addressing [...]

Outcome: Kingston Homes’ Hythe Plan: Luxury Builds, Zero Affordable Housing

March 19, 2025 // 1 Comment

Chairman Jackie Meade (with the patience of a saint): “Alright folks, let’s dive into Application 21/0553/FH – Land oppiste 24 Station Road Hythe CT21 5PW – [...]

From Bus Stops to Botanicals: Council’s Bold Park Plan

March 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Application Number 24-1650-FH: Bus Station, Bouverie Square, Folkestone. To be heard by planning committee tomorrow: 18 March Folkestone & Hythe District Council have a [...]

Doodle Doom: Sam Cox’s Shingle Showdown in Dungeness

March 17, 2025 // 1 Comment

Application Ref: 24/0653/FH – The Log Cabin, Dungeness Road Dungeness Romney Marsh In the windswept, shingle-strewn purgatory of Dungeness—a place where nuclear power [...]

Kingston Homes’ Hythe Plan: Luxury Builds, Zero Affordable Housing

March 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Planning Committee, (18 March 2025) Gather ’round, for we have a mystery on our hands—a mystery so baffling, so ludicrous, that even [...]

High Knocke Dymchurch, do we need the 132 homes given there is “massive oversupply” of housing, says leader of the Council

May 29, 2023 // 2 Comments

This is the story, or rather the continuation of the story about the planning application for 132 Homes at High Knocke Dymchurch. This application is set to go before the [...]

Bats, badgers, threatened species & lethal levels of contamination on former officers mess, Hawkinge

May 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

In 2015, Tom Goldsmith set up a petition on Change.org which gained 407 signatures. The title of the petition was: Say No to the development on the Hawkinge officers Mess and [...]

Lethal levels of arsenic present on former Officers Mess Aerodrome Road Hawkinge site.

April 1, 2021 // 9 Comments

Updated: 01/04/21 @20:27 Land at the Former Officers Mess, Elvington Lane, Aerodrome Road Hawkinge purchased by Pentland Homes on 01/12/2020 for £2.5 million, according to [...]

“Technical Issues” prevented Tontine Street Viability Assessment from being published says Council

November 6, 2020 // 3 Comments

In Feb 2019, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a new and revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) At Para 57 of the new and revised [...]

Second bite of the cherry: Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe

September 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe sits majestically on the higher slope which over looks Hythe. It has sweeping and valuable views out across Hythe bay and any [...]

Secrets breed mistrust Sir Roger.

January 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Secrecy can be a nasty practice with people often keeping secrets for all the wrong reasons. Secrets breed mistrust. Today we understand a representative or representatives [...]

David v Goliath. A Judicial Review.

January 24, 2018 // 4 Comments

On Thursday the 25th January at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, at The Queen’s Bench Planning Division, an application for a judicial review will be heard [...]

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