Princes Parade

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council use 107 procurement contract waivers to bypass normal procurement rules to the value of more than £11 million.

December 16, 2020 // 6 Comments

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

December 4, 2020 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes

August 9, 2020 // 9 Comments

£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

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

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%.

April 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

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.

March 18, 2020 // 10 Comments

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

February 19, 2020 // 10 Comments

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

February 14, 2020 // 6 Comments

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

August 14, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

June 15, 2019 // 5 Comments

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.

May 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

April 21, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

March 12, 2019 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Otterpool Park to come before planning by end of February

February 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Princes Parade Hythe: Business Plan comes before Overview & Scrutiny on the 12th Feb

February 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

The Princes Parade Business plan will be heard by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday 12th February and then go onto Cabinet on the 13th February. There have [...]

Save Princes Parade

January 6, 2019 // 3 Comments

Thirty five years ago Princes Parade was in the Folkestone & Hythe District Herald newspaper not once but twice. On the 17th Feb 1984 the Herald ran the following [...]

Princes Parade “viable” without 150 homes says Folkestone & Hythe District Council

November 28, 2018 // 4 Comments

EXCLUSIVE It is now known that to make Princes Parade “viable” according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, the 150 residential properties are not [...]

Princes Parade Business Plan Delayed

November 23, 2018 // 2 Comments

Exclusive: Princes Parade Business Plan was to be discussed behind closed at the Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet, to be held on the 12th Dec. This will not [...]

Princes Parade is NOT a done deal

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Cambridge educated Cllr Russell Tillson, (pictured below) who is a Cllr on Dymchurch Parish Council, St Mary’s Bay Parish Council, a town Councillor on New Romney Town [...]

Princes Parade, Development or Destruction?

August 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

Jack Brophy – Published on 6 Aug 2018 ‘Prince’s Parade, Development or Destruction?’ is documentary about a small section of coastal land in Kent [...]

Princes Parade agenda available.

August 9, 2018 // 1 Comment

The agenda for the Princes Parade outline planning application to made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council and determined by the Licensing & Planning Committee on [...]

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