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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, [...]

FHDC look set to have highest Council Tax in Kent for eighteenth year in a row

February 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

On the 24 February 2021, Report A/20/08 will go before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Full Council at 7pm. This report concludes the budget setting process for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rural Areas in Folkestone & Hythe District Still Receiving Slow Internet Speeds Nearly Two Years On.

May 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Nearly 60% of people living on Romney Marsh do not receive broadband speeds of 10 Megabytes per second (Mbps). On Average 51% of the district receive download speeds of [...]

Why Westenhanger Castle purchase by Folkestone & Hythe District Council will not come before Council for discussion.

August 22, 2019 // 7 Comments

On the 14th Nov 2018 Cabinet discussed Report Number C/18/44. It was made clear in this report that further purchases should be made to facilitate the development of the [...]

Otterpool Park update – Oh the irony.

March 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

On Thursday September 14th 2017 at 9.30am, 17 people gathered at 2 Marsham St London, the home of the Department for Housing, Communities and Local Government. The 17 [...]

Speculative Discussions.

January 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

Channel Ports Ltd & Stop 24 are in ongoing speculative discussions about extending the Lorry Park at Stop 24 by another 300 places. It currently has space for 200 [...]

Damian Collins In Twitter Spat With Russian Embassy

November 12, 2017 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe MP – Damian Collins (pictured), has got into a spat on Twitter, with the Russian Embassy, in London, about fake news. Damian & his committee [...]

Lorry Park Stanford

November 3, 2017 // 3 Comments

The rumours that the lorry park at Stanford has been ditched according to “sources close to the Construction Team” – Balfour Beatty has been revealed by [...]

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 [...]

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