Pollution

1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]

Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year

July 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]

£250,000 of Green Cash to be given away by the Council to help the environment

February 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet is being asked to agree approval to establish a £250,000 fund to provide grants to support local businesses to improve their [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Lib Dems propose new location for playground, but fail to explain costs of remediation.

October 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats are now proposing the disused railyway line (pictured); which runs from Warren Rd, Folkestone (alongside Tram Rd) to Rocksalt as [...]

Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update

September 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]

Council issue Veolia with two week ultimatum to turn round £40 million waste contract fiasco

June 11, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 11/06/21 @ 20:05 Empty vessels, they say, make most noise and actions speak louder than words. On Wednesday 9th June Cllr Stuart Peall (Con), Cabinet Member [...]

How Princes Parade & Otterpool Park can educate us all.

March 25, 2021 // 2 Comments

The Clean Air Act 1993 is an amazing piece of legislation. It’s under utilised by those on our Council, who could use it to much greater effect to educate and inform us [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking Environmental Law

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

New evidence has emerged which shows Folkestone & Hythe District Council are in clear breach of environmental law and in particular the Environmental Permitting (England [...]

Part 2: KCC Pension Fund is divesting from fossil fuels but still investing in countries who do not uphold LGBT rights

September 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

The KCC Pension Fund total investments were valued at £6.6bn on 31 December 2019. Just three months later, on the 31st March 2020, the pension value had shrunk to £5.7 [...]

Raw sewage flowed into our rivers in 2019 and Shepway Green Party remain silent.

July 2, 2020 // 2 Comments

Yesterday, The Shepway Green Party announced that Cllr Rebecca Tamsin Shoob (Green Party) (pictured) has accepted a place on the Ottepool Park LLP In 2019/20 Cllr Shoob [...]

Every Breath We Take

June 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

Updated: 10:15 am 26/06/20 Air pollution does NOT discriminate. We all need to breathe. All lives matter. Nobody needs to be saying: “I Can’t Breathe” due to [...]

Why are Cllr Lesley Whybrow & FHDC failing to release air quality data which is relevant to the current pandemic?

April 26, 2020 // 2 Comments

High levels of air pollution NO² (Nitrogen Dioxide) is “one of the most important contributors” to deaths from Covid-19, according to research in Europe and the USA. The [...]

Will Cllr Lesley Whybrow Release The Council’s Emissions Data?

February 1, 2020 // 4 Comments

Cllrs Lesley Whybrow (Green) and Tim Prater (Lib Dem) have accepted offers to join Cllr David Monk’s Cabinet. This elevation to a Cabinet position will bring with it a [...]

How much do you love our district?

April 17, 2019 // 4 Comments

Rates (read Council Tax) and rats, health and housing, parks and public toilets are all controlled by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. In addition to these areas the [...]

Wood Burning Stoves: Deadly not trendy

February 27, 2019 // 3 Comments

Graphic: Breathe Clean Air Less than a year ago (March 2018) a blanket of clean white snow lay heavy across the district, the county and the country and there was little or [...]

East Kent removes more Pollution than any other region via vegetation

August 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

According to a study produced for the UK Natural Capital accounts by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in conjuction with the Office of National Statistics (ONS), [...]

All For The Sake of Profit

February 24, 2017 // 1 Comment

“We do not play politics with pensions” said Cllr Susan Carey (pictured) at full council on Wednesday 22nd February. Cllr Carey was responding to a question put [...]

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