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Congratulations – Folkestone & Hythe District Council Spend £1.3 million On Temporary Staff in 19/20

April 25, 2020 // 1 Comment

They’ve smashed it. We said they would, we knew they would and they didn’t let us down. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent more money on Temporary Staff [...]

Congratulations – Folkestone & Hythe District Council For Setting Yet Another Record

February 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

They’ve done it and with two months to spare. We said they would, we knew they would and they didn’t let us down. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have [...]

More Issues With Landlord Gas Safety Records

February 25, 2020 // 6 Comments

It’s been just under four months since Gas Call Services took over the gas heating and hot water repairs and maintenance and once again issues with Landlord Gas Safety [...]

John “Buy Me A Car” Bunnett

January 28, 2020 // 16 Comments

John Bunnett (pictured) is currently Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Corporate Director for Otterpool Park. He is the man who is able to spend the £100 [...]

Otterpool Park Update

January 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, Cozumel Estates [...]

Beach Huts: Financial Irregularities & Incompetence

January 10, 2020 // 4 Comments

Eighty new beach huts will be put on Marine Walk, Folkestone, between 4th May & 17th May 2020, according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council. The Council are to [...]

Biggins Wood: Hollow Promises

January 7, 2020 // 3 Comments

Four years on since the Council purchased the Biggins Wood site, not a single house has been built on the site. The Council have, we believe, bought a pig in a poke. On the [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Council Make £26 million Offer To Buy Reuben Brothers Land

January 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council Corporate Director for Place and Commercial – John Bunnett (pictured), was in Nov 2019 given the green light to begin [...]

Part 3: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities

January 4, 2020 // 4 Comments

In this final piece (for now) we look at at very specific part of the time line in the P & R potential £1.5 million pound fraud which came about as a result of failings [...]

Part 2: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities.

January 2, 2020 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking for a new statutory s151 Officer. According to the Candidate Breifing Pack on Penna Recruitment & the [...]

EKH Chief Exec Deborah Upton Has Stepped Down

December 23, 2019 // 13 Comments

Updated: 16:40 East Kent Housing’s Chief Executive Deborah Upton (pictured) has stepped down from her role following a string of failures by the organisation. The action [...]

Ross House: A Tissue of Lies

December 1, 2019 // 2 Comments

Pursuant to section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 and the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, Ross House was not fire compliant when Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Conversion of Ross House “was total shit” and “sub standard” yet Council paid £1.8 million

November 2, 2019 // 3 Comments

Updated 4th Nov 10:35 Cllr Tim Prater has made candid public statements about the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way into 16 flats, owned by the Council since April 2018, [...]

Slum Landlord, Double Payments, Overcharging and Killing Pensioners

October 15, 2019 // 2 Comments

Double payments, overcharging, lack of adherence to legislation and a failure to manage the P & R contract, and all the issues raised in Appendix 3: Audit report for East [...]

Will Buying Cheap mean Buying Twice?

October 14, 2019 // 8 Comments

Updated 08:30am 15/10/19 It’s not just Cllr Stuart Peall (Con) (pictured) Cabinet Member for Enforcement, Regulatory Services, Waste & Building control, at [...]

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