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 [...]
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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 [...]
Otterpool Park to come before planning by end of February
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
The agenda for the Princes Parade outline planning application to made by Folkestone & Hythe District Council and determined by the Licensing & Planning Committee on [...]
East Kent removes more Pollution than any other region via vegetation
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), [...]
Princes Parade decision deferred and some pink papers.
The application for planning permission for Princes Parade Promenade, due to be considered by Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Planning and Licensing Committee on [...]
Princes Parade planning application to be heard on July 31st
It is understood that the Princes Parade planning application Y17/1042/SH will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning Committe on July 31st 2018. For [...]
The Long Read: That motion and a little about financial viability assessments.
At last Thursday’s (12th April) extraordinary Hythe Town Council meeting at Hythe Town Council, agenda item 4 was to discuss Planning Application Y17/1042/SH – [...]
A complete shit.
On Tuesday the 3rd April at 9.30am at Hythe Town hall an extraordinary meeting was scheduled. Cllrs met to discuss Y17/1042/SH – commonly known as Princes Parade. It [...]
Just for the record Alistair
So it is adieu to the Chief Executive Alistair Stewart (Head of Paid Services) of Shepway District Council, with a £184,000 redundancy package. He’s laughing all the [...]
SDC draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan open for comments
So the draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan local is now open for you to comment on (closes March 5th 2018). Shepway District Council’s (SDC) draft [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Seven Clumps Of Japanese Knotweed On Princes Parade.
There is not one, there is not two or even three, but seven clumps of Japanese Knotweed that we have photographed so far on Princes Parade. The clumps range in size from a [...]