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Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments has ‘acquired’ Princes Parade & Hythe Pool site

June 25, 2022 // 4 Comments

David Richard Pownceby (pictured) has held or holds directorships in 97 companies. Companies House shows that he is, or has resided in 68 companies as a director, person of [...]

Princes Parade update: Costs rise 655% between 2014 and 2022

March 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

In January 2014 there was a review of a New Leisure Centre at Princes Parade, undertaken by Strategic Leisure Limited, for and on behalf of our Council. In May 2014, the [...]

Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]

Princes Parade Update: Costs, Contracts & Vindictive Behaviour by FHDC

November 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

On the 6 August 2018, Lesley Whybrow (pictured), before she became an elected Cllr, sent a Freedom of Information Request to the Council, relating to Princes Parade, where [...]

It’s NOT all about Princes Parade

March 24, 2021 // 8 Comments

This is a guest post Like many of you, I read posts on Facebook and of late, I’ve seen a lot about Princes Parade. Those who are promoting it, pushing it across [...]

Council award £2.5 million pound contract to BAM Construction to begin development of Princes Parade Liesure Centre

February 20, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 13th Nov 2019, the Princes Parade Business Plan went before Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet. The Business Plan was set out in Report Number [...]

Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle

December 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]

Princes Parade: Will Oaklands Surgery get that £151,200 CIL money?

August 22, 2020 // 3 Comments

Updated 23/09/20 Regardless of one’s personal position on Princes Parade, one thing should be perfectly clear and that’s the cost of the legal fees spent by [...]

Where’s The Money & Where’s The Data?

July 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation; and once again Folkestone & Hythe District Council humiliate themselves for NOT being transparent. According to the [...]

Princes Parade: The Fight Goes On

July 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Save Princes Parade Group (SPPG) have been informed that they’ve lost their initial request for permission to appeal the Judicial Review they lost. Their [...]

Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated 17:25 – 22/06/20 The Judicial Review brought by the Save Princes Parade over the planning permission for the development of Princes Parade (Hythe) has been [...]

Princes Parade Judicial Review Costs Rise by £10,500

February 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

On Valentine’s Day we informed you Folkestone & Hythe District Council had spent £24,126 on defending the Judicial Review regarding Princes Parade. Yesterday the [...]

Council Spend Twenty Four Thousand on Princes Parade Judicial Review To Date

February 14, 2020 // 6 Comments

Other peoples money, who doesn’t like spending other peoples money? So far the Council have spent a little over £24,000 with Attwell Solicitors, who are defending the [...]

Princes Parade Update

August 14, 2019 // 1 Comment

Faithful + Gould are Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s preferred consultant for the development of a new Leisure Centre on Princes Parade, Hythe. The team [...]

Princes Parade Hythe: Business Plan comes before Overview & Scrutiny on the 12th Feb

February 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

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

January 6, 2019 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Leisure Centre on Aldi’s Hythe Site?

October 10, 2018 // 5 Comments

It’s worth considering, well at least giving some thought to, we believe. Aldi’s in the centre of Hythe is up for sale. Aldi’s purchased the land for £1.5 [...]

Princes Parade is NOT a done deal

September 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

What We Mean When We Say “The Council”

January 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

After 3 years of writing about Shepway District Council and its policies and plans we thought it might be useful to say what we mean when we say “the Council“. [...]

Perseverance Wins The Day

October 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

The people of Shepway are “selfish” according to Cllr David Drury Monk (pictured). It is not the first time he has used such strong and disparaging language about people [...]

Free FOI Seminar Saturday 16th Sept 2017.

August 29, 2017 // 3 Comments

How many toilet rolls are used by Shepway District Council each year? How many accidents have there been in SDC’s toilets? What is Cllr David Monk’s weight? And [...]

Seven Clumps Of Japanese Knotweed On Princes Parade.

August 17, 2017 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do?

April 21, 2017 // 1 Comment

“When the facts change, I change my mind” said John Maynard Keynes. Well the facts have changed. What we thought we knew about the Otterpool Park development has [...]

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