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Otterpool Park: Council propose another collaboration agreement with Homes England

November 23, 2024 // 2 Comments

Here we go again. At the full Council meeting this week (27 Nov), Cllr Jim Martin (Green) Leader and Cabinet Member for Otterpool Park and Planning Policy, will announce [...]

Start Me Up

April 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]

“Technical Issues” prevented Tontine Street Viability Assessment from being published says Council

November 6, 2020 // 3 Comments

In Feb 2019, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government published a new and revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) At Para 57 of the new and revised [...]

The Long Read: The Strange Tale of the Folkestone Leas Lift Company CIC

September 20, 2020 // 2 Comments

It is unlikely many readers will have missed the publicity announcing that the Leas Lift booking office has once again opened its doors, albeit as a café. The Folkestone [...]

Revealed: Former Chief Exec’s redundancy paid for by sale of public assets.

March 25, 2019 // 3 Comments

The local government funding crisis has become so dire that our council – Folkestone & Hythe District Council has been forced to sell public spaces and public [...]

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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Archaeology and a conflict of interests.

October 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

The outline planning application for Otterpool Park is “very likely” to be put forward in January 2019, according to a senior Council officer. Meanwhile on the [...]

Otterpool Park Update

October 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

The Planning application timetable for Otterpool Park according to confidential documents make it clear that the promoters Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) and [...]

Selling off Mental Health property in Kent.

February 25, 2018 // 2 Comments

“On Margate Sands I can connect nothing with nothing. The broken fingernails of dirty hands. My people humble people who expect nothing.” TS Eliot The Wasteland. [...]

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