Royal Victoria Hospital

Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns

August 8, 2022 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]

Council purchase more than £75 million pounds of land & property in last 5 years.

August 2, 2021 // 8 Comments

Between Jan 2015 and July 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council and it’s company Oportunitas Ltd have purchased seventy three pieces of land and/or property, [...]

The local developer being helped along by the public purse

May 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]

The Long Read: 52-54 Guildhall Street and other tales of “Technical Issues”

November 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

Following our ‘more tales of the unexpected’ piece in September, which briefly mentioned the gap in the streetscape at 52-54 Guildhall Street owned by Brian James Parry [...]

He’s a very naughty boy!

November 23, 2020 // 6 Comments

Updated 08:20 25/11/20 And who is a very naughty boy… yep it’s Leo Livingston Griggs (pictured). The local Tory party donor has like others fallen foul of GDPR, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council the gift which keeps on giving

September 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

Data they say, is the new oil. Each month Folkestone & Hythe District Council produce their monthly payment to suppliers data which continues to be a rich seam to drill [...]

Cllr Goddard Recuses Himself & Other Planning Matters

September 23, 2020 // 2 Comments

So, Cllr Clive Goddard, Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe Planning Committee recused himself and did not vote on either of the planning applications related to the Royal [...]

Is Cllr Clive Goddard committing a criminal offence?

September 22, 2020 // 5 Comments

It is simple, so so simple yet he has failed to comply. A discosable pecuniary interest (DPI) is set out in Chapter 7 of the Localism Act 2011 and in the secondary [...]

Images Emerge of Cllr Clive Goddard Working on RVH Site owned by Leo Griggs.

September 18, 2020 // 8 Comments

Updated 18:12 – 18/09/20 Images have emerged of Cllr Clive Goddard – the Chairman of the Planning Committee at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, working on [...]

More tales of the unexpected from the Royal Victoria Site owned by Leo Griggs

September 16, 2020 // 3 Comments

On the 8th Sept, 2020, Cllr Patrica Rolfe (Con) informed the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, that all four directors of Oportunitas Ltd – a company wholly owned by [...]

Council fail to declare they were to buy 37 properties on Royal Victoria Hospital site owned by Leo Griggs

September 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

Updated 11.35am 9/09/2020 So it’s just as we said way back on Nov 28th 2018: We also understand from well placed council sources, the Council’s company Oportunitas [...]

Cllr David Wimble Is Committing Another Criminal Offence

July 25, 2020 // 3 Comments

Cllr David Wimble, Cabinet Member for the District Economy for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, is a man who’s never far away from controversy. He has in the [...]

Deficits, Transformation, Car Parking and a big thank you

July 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

All four East Kent Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in East Kent, Ashford Canterbury & Coastal, South Kent Coast (Folkestone & Dover) and Thanet are in special [...]

Royal Victoria Hospital sells for £1.25 million

November 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

EXCLUSIVE Back in March 2018, we brought you the post: Do you believe in coincidence? This speculated that a company by the name of RVH Folkestone Limited owned and [...]

KCC sell Royal Victoria Hospital and F&HDC purchased Highview for £750,000

October 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

According to Savills website, the Royal Victoria Hospital, site has been sold. This has happened in the last few days. No details as of yet have been updated on the Land [...]

Do you believe in coincidence?

March 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

All Internal Pictures of Royal Victoria Hospital by Duncandisorderly Do you believe in coincidence? “It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder [...]

NHS land in Kent sold off for housing that nurses can’t afford.

January 13, 2018 // 1 Comment

20 pieces of land owned by the NHS in Kent – including Medway have or are in the pipeline to be sold off by the government for housing developments unaffordable to the [...]

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