Princes Parade

Have the Council found a Magic Money Tree for their five development projects?

January 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council five development projects, are all subject to rising inflation, higher borrowing costs, and supply chain issues, which means costs [...]

Princes Parade: Stopping Up Order Documents released by Planning Inspector & Secretary of State

January 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

So the campaign to prevent the stopping up order of the road which will run behind the land at Princes Parade, led by KCC Cllrs Rory Love OBE and Andy Weatherhead was [...]

Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]

Can you trust this man?

November 25, 2021 // 6 Comments

As you know Cllr David Monk – Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council – has got a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist and Director of K B [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity in Folkestone & Hythe District Council.

October 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

One does not have to do anything to make Folkestone & Hythe District Council look stupid or incompetent, they are quite capable of doing that all on their own. For those [...]

Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy

September 30, 2021 // 1 Comment

“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]

Princes Parade Update: Council seeks Leisure Centre Operator for 10 year £23 million contract

August 26, 2021 // 5 Comments

On the 23 August, Folkestone & Hythe District Council, let it be known they are seeking to procure the services of a suitable, experienced operator in the leisure [...]

Cllr Rory Love’s application for Public Inquiry into stopping up road at Princes Parade accepted

August 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

Kent County Council Cllr Rory Love OBE (Con) (pictured) & Andy Weatherhead (Con) petition application for a public inquiry into the stopping up of the road at Princes [...]

Princes Parade Update: Badger Sett & Ecological matters set to go before Planning on 24th August.

August 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

What with the Save Princes Parade Group continuing to keep up the pressure on Folkestone & Hythe District Council with a demonstration on Sunday the 15 August, we note [...]

Further budget cuts at KCC will mean more inflation busting Council Tax increases

August 6, 2021 // 1 Comment

Like night follows day, like sunshine follows rain, the raising of Council Tax bills in Feb 2022 across all Kent district councils is inevitable due to KCC looking to plug a [...]

Council purchase more than £75 million pounds of land & property in last 5 years.

August 2, 2021 // 8 Comments

Between Jan 2015 and July 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council and it’s company Oportunitas Ltd have purchased seventy three pieces of land and/or property, [...]

Princes Parade: Power Corruption & Lies?

July 20, 2021 // 8 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council led by Dr Susan Priest, are in a mess, the Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco, Broken Links preventing inspection of accounts and [...]

Save Princes Parade Campaign missed glaring opportunity to win Judicial Review

June 15, 2021 // 14 Comments

One has to wonder about the ability of some of those involved in the Save Princes Parade Campaign. It’s clear they missed an opportunity that was so glaringly obvious, [...]

Senior Council Officers and Cllrs rewarded handsomely for losing public purse tens of thousands of pounds

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

Between them they have lost the public purse tens of thousands of pounds and failed to keep the publication scheme up to date. The publication scheme aims to make the maximum [...]

Ask your local Parish, Town, District County council to put heat pumps under playing fields and parks

May 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

One of the things which has come out of the pandemic is how important nature is to us all. Our green spaces have provided us with places to relax and enjoy nature at close [...]

And yes, they get paid well to respond badly to information requests

April 25, 2021 // 7 Comments

Updated: 27/04/21 – @ 10:16 Make ’em laugh, Make ’em laugh. Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh? (Ha ha!). We and our public face – who is [...]

Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.

April 21, 2021 // 5 Comments

Across the Garden of England hundreds of landfill sites containing dangerous, hazardous and toxic waste, are according to a remediation consultant of 35 years, “time [...]

Biodiversity on Royal Miltary Canal has increased for last 15 years

April 10, 2021 // 6 Comments

Twelve years prior to declaring a Climate & Ecological Emergency, in 2019, Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet [then known as Shepway Distrct [...]

Princes Parade: £50,000 Planning Consultancy Support Contract

April 7, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 24th March Folkestone & Hythe District Council placed an advert for another contract for Princes Parade. The expression of interest for this contract ends today [...]

It’s NOT all about Princes Parade

March 24, 2021 // 8 Comments

This is a guest post Like many of you, I read posts on Facebook and of late, I’ve seen a lot about Princes Parade. Those who are promoting it, pushing it across [...]

Shepway Green Party Cllrs under active investigation for breaking the law

March 19, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 20/01/21 @09:55 Historic England have began an investigation into elected Shepway Green Party Cllrs Jim Martin, Lesley Whybrow, and Georgina Treloar, who sit on [...]

The Irony of Princes Parade

March 7, 2021 // 5 Comments

Isn’t life ironic! The Cabinet member responsible for the Environment at Folkestone & Hythe District Council has had to resort to sending in a Freedom of [...]

Council award £2.5 million pound contract to BAM Construction to begin development of Princes Parade Liesure Centre

February 20, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 13th Nov 2019, the Princes Parade Business Plan went before Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet. The Business Plan was set out in Report Number [...]

Nine Kent Councils collect £3.5 million in Penalty Charge Notices

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Between August 2019 and July 2020, according to data collected through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by Compare the Market, Medway Council has issued the most Penalty [...]

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