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Otterpool Park’s 1001-Day Section 106 Delay Exposes England’s Planning Logjam

December 30, 2025 // 0 Comments

On 4 April 2023, Folkestone & Hythe’s Planning and Licensing Committee resolved to grant outline planning permission for Otterpool Park—a new garden town proposed at [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Developer Contributions: CIL & Section 106 Millions, Missing Data, and Infrastructure Funding Statement Compliance Failures (2020–2025)

December 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) is meant to be the public’s annual “receipt and report card” for developer [...]

Stoneleigh House and the £1.716m Question: Where Did the Affordable Homes Go?

November 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated: 09:35 on 3 Nov 2025 A fire-damaged Stoneleigh House on Tram Road, Folkestone, goes to auction this month with its 2018 consent for 14 affordable flats long since [...]

Affordable Homes Lost After Council Fails to Enforce Legal Planning Condition

July 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

This is a story of lost affordable housing. At the Full Council meeting on 23 July 2025, Cllr Jim Martin responded to a question from Cllr Nicola Keen about affordable [...]

‘Ongoing public access’ to Folkestone harbour arm threatened if 410 new homes not built

February 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated 12/02/25 @ 12:52 Sir Roger De Haan, a man who is “uncompromising when he sets his mind to something“, has via his company and agent, resubmitted revised [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Places for People pull out of Otterpool deal

October 18, 2024 // 5 Comments

Otterpool Park, the controversial development where Folkestone & Hythe District Council, via its company, Otterpool Park LLP, wish to build up to 10,000 homes, has spent [...]

Where’s the s106 money and the affordable housing Mr Pownceby?

August 14, 2023 // 2 Comments

On the 3 May 2016, Y15/1154/SH came before the planning committee. The applicant was David Pownceby, of Development House Limited. At the time he was the secretary of the [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

Otterpool Park update: Borrowing, hidden soft market testing and a Dodgy man in charge

July 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

To purchase Folkestone racecourse site from the Reuben Brothers for £25 million; which included Monk’s private fishing lake, the council borrowed the money, but [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Elephant in the Room

November 3, 2020 // 4 Comments

The Otterpool Park Financial Viability Assessment (VA) assumes the development to be 100% debt financed. So having taken the time to look at the VA, and also get the views of [...]

Wheelie Cllr Prater!

July 21, 2020 // 6 Comments

Updated 19:00 23/07/20 Honestly, if we replied to every Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) article, we’d get little done. Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) is claiming victory for a [...]

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 [...]

SDC draft consultation Places & Policies Local Plan open for comments

February 14, 2018 // 0 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 [...]

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