Something is Rotten in the District of Folkestone & Hythe
There’s more to this than meets the eye. Yes the facts surrounding the Leo Griggs Royal Victoria Site gets murkier. Not only has the site been closed by the Health [...]
Planning
Health & Safety Executive Close Leo Griggs Royal Victoria Hospital Construction Site
The Royal Victoria hospital site owned by developer Leo Griggs (pictured), was recently closed by the Health & Safety Executive for alleged breaches of : scaffolding, [...]
The Long Read: Planning excites passion.
Planning has always been the hottest of all local government topics. It’s the one most likely to stir the passions of local people and yet no sooner have those passions [...]
Exclusive: Kent County Council’s response to Govt Free port Consultation revealed
The Shepwayvox Team have managed to get hold of Kent County Council’s response to the Government’s consultation on a proposed new Free port policy. It can be [...]
Kent County Council & Dover District Council support Port of Dover’s proposals for Free port (Offshore) for East Kent.
On the 13th July, Cllr Trevor Bartlett, Leader of Dover District Council, said: “Dover District Council wholeheartedly supports the Port of Dover’s proposals for Freeport [...]
Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review
Updated 17:25 – 22/06/20 The Judicial Review brought by the Save Princes Parade over the planning permission for the development of Princes Parade (Hythe) has been [...]
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 [...]
Planning For The Future
In a post coronavirus world we need a better model to kick in when and if another pandemic strikes. The council emergency planning was devoid of any action to be taken in the [...]
Princes Parade Judicial Review Costs Rise by £10,500
On Valentine’s Day we informed you Folkestone & Hythe District Council had spent £24,126 on defending the Judicial Review regarding Princes Parade. Yesterday the [...]
Council Spend Twenty Four Thousand on Princes Parade Judicial Review To Date
Other peoples money, who doesn’t like spending other peoples money? So far the Council have spent a little over £24,000 with Attwell Solicitors, who are defending the [...]
Part 1: Plausible Suspicion of Wrongdoing
A growing number of sources within all four Councils who own East Kent Housing have informed us that all four Chief Executives of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & [...]
Crusade Building Services Ltd
Crusade Building Services Ltd was one of the companies who worked on the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone for Ollie Davis. Crusade is owned by Daniel Knight [...]
Oliver Gordon Davis, the man who sold Ross House to FHDC for £1.8 million.
The man who sold Ross House to the Council for £1.8 million goes by two names on Companies House website: Oliver Davis Oliver Gordon Davis Oliver (pictured) likes to be [...]
A Very Short Planning History of Ross House, Folkestone
The application Y17/0004/PA was for a change of use of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone CT20 3UJ into 16 flats (4 – 1 Beds and 12 – 2 Beds). The application [...]
Planning Committee roundup from 27th August 2019
The Outline planning permission for the provision of up to 117 dwellings – Y18/1404/FH at the land adjoining Hope All Saints Garden Centre, Ashford Road, New Romney, [...]
Part 1: Can we do it? Yes we can.
The term ‘Gyspy/Traveller’ does not constitute a homogenous category, but encapsulates a plethora of differing histories, beliefs and cultures. According to the latest [...]
Otterpool Park to come before planning by end of February
Cllr David Monk (pictured) at this evening’s full council – 20th Feb 2019 – announced that an outline planning application for 8,500 homes to be constructed [...]
Otterpool Park Update: GP practice and primary care is already stretched in the Folkestone & Hythe District
In the Otterpool-Park-Stage-3-Consultation-report released in July 2018 respondents raised there concerns over Health Infrastructure on three occasions. The report says: [...]
Y18/1529/FH – Shepway Close, Folkestone
When it comes to planning in Folkestone & Hythe District, you have to know your history. It begins with Y05/1331/SH – yellow and orange polygons below & [...]
History of Pensand House & Marlborough Court
It begins back in 1987, the year Rick Astley’s – Never Gonna Give You Up remained at No 1 for five weeks. On the 29th May 1987 a charge for a mortgage was raised from [...]
Staff losses & recruitment agency costs
Folkestone & Hythe District Council realise their biggest challenge to delivery of Council services is recruiting and retaining key skills in some areas of their [...]
Royal Victoria Hospital sells for £1.25 million
EXCLUSIVE Back in March 2018, we brought you the post: Do you believe in coincidence? This speculated that a company by the name of RVH Folkestone Limited owned and [...]
Princes Parade “viable” without 150 homes says Folkestone & Hythe District Council
EXCLUSIVE It is now known that to make Princes Parade “viable” according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, the 150 residential properties are not [...]
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more”
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more“ Henry V – by William Shakespeare For the second time Mr Tim Steer (pictured) has rallied himself to [...]
The Horn Street Stench.
On March 24th 2015 Shepwayvox was born. It was said in the very first post, by the solitary member and writer at that time who is now, our public face, somewhere down the [...]