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Creative Folkestone Tenancy Agreement: ‘Creative Connection’ and Gagging Clauses Under UK Renter and Consumer Law

November 19, 2025 // 6 Comments

Creative Folkestone describes itself as “an arts charity with a bold ambition: to make Folkestone a better place to live, work and visit through creativity.” In the [...]

Property Sales in Folkestone & Hythe District Violate EPC Regulations.

March 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

Updated: 5 March @ 19:48 In the UK, it is a legal requirement to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) when selling a property, including private sales. The EPC must [...]

Evidence shows Council failing to provide sufficient affordable housing

December 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Many of you will recall your school reports from days gone by. No doubt many of you can recall the phrase, could do better, associated with them. Well this is an apt phrase [...]

Housing: Rent rises and rent controls

September 25, 2024 // 1 Comment

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) recently released the increases of average rent across each district in England, Scotland and Wales. It is clear from their data, the [...]

Part 2 Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting?

April 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

On Valentine’s Day we published the blog post: Creative Quarter: Are the Creative Folkestone Tenants Revolting? In short it was about Creative Folkestone (CF) [...]

More than 1000 households forced into temporary accomodation in last five years at a cost of £1.9m

October 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

Temporary Accommodation is accommodation provided in connection with a local authority’s statutory homelessness obligations under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996, (as [...]

Now what we need are facts

December 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form [...]

The dead and Hythe Bowling Club

September 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

How is it possible dead people, four dead people at that, to remain on a title deed lodged at the Land Registry? It is not the first time we have discovered dead people still [...]

The Dark Side of Gentrification

September 1, 2016 // 1 Comment

On the sun strewn hills just above Folkestone, a family sit down to eat Sunday Lunch. The view they have is amazing, we can see France, the English channel fanning out and [...]

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