Environmental time bombs hidden under the Garden of England.
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 [...]
Princes Parade
Biodiversity on Royal Miltary Canal has increased for last 15 years
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council use 107 procurement contract waivers to bypass normal procurement rules to the value of more than £11 million.
The latest estimate of contract procurement fraud in local government was £4.4 billion pounds. Between 2016/17 and 2020/21 the Council have issued one hundred and seven [...]
Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle
It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]
Thousands of citizen scientists looking to the heavens to measure light pollution
In February 2020, The Campaign to Protect Rural England asked for volunteer ‘citizen scientists’ to look to the skies and count stars within the Orion constellation in [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes
£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]
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 [...]
Council’s Costs to Defend Princes Parade Judicial Review, Rise by Staggering 85%.
Since we last reported on payments made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council to their Solicitors’s of choice – Attwells Solicitors LLP – to defend [...]
Cllr Ray Field’s Betrayal Over Princes Parade Reaches Private Eye Magazine.
Cllr Ray Field’s defection to the Tories and betrayal of Princes Parade reaches this week’s edition of Rotten Boroughs in Private Eye (No 1518 20 March – [...]
Closet Tory Betrays Princes Parade
Updated: 11:10am 20/02/20 Last night at full Council another opportunity to stop Princes Parade presented itself. Cllr Tim Prater’s amendment (see video below) [...]
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 [...]
Princes Parade Update
Faithful + Gould are Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s preferred consultant for the development of a new Leisure Centre on Princes Parade, Hythe. The team [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council grant Planning Permission for Princes Parade
Yesterday evening we received the follow news from the Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Save Princes Parade Group. “Regrettably I have to inform you that today [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on Consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park since March 2016. Both sites which our council wish to [...]
F&HDC know the price of everything and the value of nothing
It’s absolutely phenomenal. The value of Princes Parade, Hythe has risen dramatically. In March 2018, the land was worth a maximum of £80,000. After Princes Parade [...]
A tragedy waiting to happen
When land becomes more important than thousands of people’s safety then something is wrong, horribly wrong. On the 6th June 2019 Cllr Tim Prater (pictured below) and [...]
The Long Read: Overview & Scrutiny must follow the council pound and roar.
It is the committee which can allow citizens to have a greater say in Council matters, by holding public inquiries into matters of local concern. Such concerns might be a [...]
Local Elections May 2nd – Use your vote wisely
Tory led Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax in Kent for the last sixteen years. This means we pay more for our services than anyone else [...]
Folkestone & Hythe DC: Highest council tax rates in Kent since 2004/05
Since 2004/05 Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax rates (page 4 Table 2 or see chart below) in the whole of Kent. That’s sixteen [...]