Social Housing

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Has Lost 1,200 Council Homes Since 2002

June 27, 2025 // 2 Comments

Over the past 22 years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council has lost 1,200 council homes. That figure alone should raise concern. But when we examine the underlying [...]

Part 6: Damp & Mould – “It’s not lifestyle”

March 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

Three years on and the issue of damp and mould in Mark Deacon’s Council owned flat, in Etchinghill, has still not been resolved. He has repeatedly complained to the [...]

One household every five days placed into temporary accommodation out of Folkestone & Hythe District

September 5, 2023 // 1 Comment

In real life, poverty and dignity are not good bedfellows. Making good and clean floors are all well and good. But modern day virtues are easier to hold when you rise every [...]

Part 2: Housing, Housing, Housing, we need more housing

April 23, 2023 // 3 Comments

Over the last week, I have been asked about housing while out and about on the Campaign trail. I have answered questions to the best of my knowledge, and with the three sets [...]

Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy

January 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]

Council not using data matching to spot possible tenancy fraud claim Council sources

January 10, 2023 // 5 Comments

Just a look at three Council owned addresses throws up anomalies about tenants and companies registered at Council owned properties; which highlight possible tenancy fraud. [...]

Leo Griggs in discussions to sell flats at Sandbanks – New Romney – to Council

August 18, 2021 // 1 Comment

On the 15th Dec 2020, planning application 20/0690/FH – Sandbanks, Coast Road, Littlestone, New Romney, went before the planning committee. The applicant was Leo Griggs [...]

Part 1: Plausible Suspicion of Wrongdoing

November 16, 2019 // 4 Comments

A growing number of sources within all four Councils who own East Kent Housing have informed us that all four Chief Executives of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & [...]

The End Of The Beginning For East Kent Housing

October 16, 2019 // 13 Comments

So the beginning ends. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet has agreed in principal to withdraw from East Kent Housing and begin a consultation process with all [...]

Slum Landlord, Double Payments, Overcharging and Killing Pensioners

October 15, 2019 // 2 Comments

Double payments, overcharging, lack of adherence to legislation and a failure to manage the P & R contract, and all the issues raised in Appendix 3: Audit report for East [...]

Part 1: Is the Chief Executive of East Kent Housing, Deborah Upton, fit for purpose? You decide.

July 29, 2019 // 11 Comments

Deborah Josephine Upton (pictured) has a long history of contracts going pear-shaped on her watch. This has happened while she worked for Medway Council, Circle Housing and [...]

The Long Read: The Leas Pavilion.

April 15, 2018 // 3 Comments

In 2007 The Radnor Estate sold to Churchgate Developers for £3.2m a lease of 150 years on the Leas Pavilion and surrounding land. Planning Permission is due to lapse on the [...]

£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.

November 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]

Something Is Rotten In The District Of Shepway. Part 2

October 10, 2017 // 4 Comments

On the 30th Oct 2015, we brought you the post “Something Is Rotten In the Borough Of Shepway” which was about the purchase of the property – 15 Grace Hill, [...]

Private landlords get more than £6.7 million in housing benefit from taxpayer, says Shepway District Council.

June 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

Housing, it’s all about housing. Shepway District Council wish to allow 26,292 new houses to be built in the district between now and 2030/35. That’s a 54% [...]

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