Our public face throws hat into ring for forthcoming May elections
Before getting onto the part where our public face throws his hat into the ring for the forthcoming elections in May, there’s another matter to draw to your attention. [...]
Planning
Otterpool Park Update: Kent Ecological Advice Service query if Biodiversity Net Gain will exceed 20%.
It can’t be easy wanting to build a new town where you wish to build up to 10,000 homes. It would seem that Otterpool Park LLP, the master developer is running into [...]
Housing development at former St Saviour’s Hospital site in Hythe, in doubt
Detail, detail detail, the devil is in the detail. From the evidence publicly available it would appear for the former St Saviour Hospital reserved matters planning [...]
All work and spending on Bigginswood must stop with immediate effect due to lapsed planning permission
Land at Bigginswood, Cheriton, was purchased in Dec 2016 under urgency powers by the then Coporate Director Dr Susan Priest. The price paid by the Council was £1.5m; which [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Hidden Agenda’s and Fair Value
Ever since the first piece of land was purchased by the Council at Otterpool, in Dec 2015, for £5m from the Champney Brothers, the fair value of the land has risen by 540%, [...]
Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”
“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]
Otterpool Park Update: We Name Developers for Phase One
Exclusive Updated: 26/09/22 @16:43 Back in July when the sun was warm, skies were clear and talk of a drought was sweeping its way across the nation’s media, we [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Fundamental errors in updated Otterpool Park planning application
After seven years and more than £55m spent, the updated Otterpool Park Planning Application – Y19/0257/FH – has been submitted and is out to consultation now. [...]
Start Me Up
Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]
Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility for free
Developer Quinn Estates have been offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility on land owned by Kent County Council & Canterbury City [...]
Princess Royal called in to planning as ‘evidence of neglect’ is confirmed by Council
‘evidence of neglect‘, objections from The Victorian Society, KCC Archaeology, CPRE Historic Buildings Committee, and Save Britain’s Heritage as well as a [...]
Jenners Planning Application will remove more than just trees
Folkestone & Hythe District Council declared a Climate Emergency in July 2019, committing to become carbon neutral by 2030. The same year, Friends of the Earth launched a [...]
Congratulations to all those involved
The Folkestone & Hythe District Council Core Strategy is the key planning policy document within the Council’s Local Plan. It sets the overall vision and objectives [...]
More evidence of incompetence emerges at the Council
Updated 14/03/22 – The Council have now placed the right document in the right location. One has to admit there are times when Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
More Russians investing in our district, but legitimately so.
It has to be said. It has to be made clear, spelt out explicitly. Not all Russians are bad. Those who live among us are no doubt just as horrified at the events in the [...]
Part 2 – Princess Royal ‘evidence of deliberate neglect’ emerges
The Outline Demolition Plan prepared by Harding Bond, dated 10th August 2016 and referred to in the Fairhurst Report in the latest application 22/0109/FH to demolish the [...]
White Lion Pub – Cheriton: Demolition or Restoration?
On September 3, 2017, we wrote about the White Lion Pub in Cheriton. At that time, the ownership of the building belonged to Kent County Homes Ltd, which in turn was owned [...]
Proposed 132 Homes for High Knocke, Dymchurch, backed by offshore money.
An outline planning application [21/2525/FH] for a residential development of 132 dwellings, at High Knocke, Dymchurch, is currently under consultation. The application has [...]
Council’s housing target failure gives hope for environment before the progress of concrete continues
Folkestone & Hythe District Council [previously Shepway] has failed to meet its annual housing requirement target for ten of the past fourteen years. This a 71% failure [...]
The planning loophole used so frequently by Sir Roger’s companies looks set to be closed
Gareth Bacon MP for Orpington, sought leave to bring in a Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning [...]
Development still not connected to sewage system nine years after being informed by Southern Water there was not enough capacity.
A Shepway Vox Team Investigation has discovered that as of today 05/10/21, according to Southern Water, the development known as Shoreline (Where the land meets the Sea) or [...]
Leo Griggs seeking to make £1.5 million on sale of part of Royal Victoria Hospital site
Leo Griggs purchased the Royal Victoria Hospital site via his company RVH Folkestone Ltd from KCC for £1.25 million on 1st Nov 2018. Just three years on he now wants to sell [...]
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 [...]
Community Infrastructure Levy miscalculated by Folkestone & Hythe District Council leaving Town & Parish Councils out of pocket
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have, according to Report AuG/21/12 released to the Audit & Governance Committee, miscalculated the Community Infrastructure Levy [...]
Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.
What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]