Temporary Accommodation

Folkestone & Hythe’s Risborough Barracks Deal: Taylor Wimpey Payments Revealed as Temporary Accommodation Costs Soar

February 25, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has so far paid Taylor Wimpey £2,390,013.56 towards the Risborough Barracks affordable homes scheme, based on supplier payment data [...]

Kent Councils’ Out-of-Area Temporary Accommodation: The FOI Numbers

February 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

When a council accepts that a household is homeless, it often has to find “temporary accommodation” fast. That can mean anything from a hotel or B&B to a short-term [...]

Temporary Accommodation Costs Hit Record High at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Passing £1m

February 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s spending on temporary accommodation has now crossed £1,052,870 in the current financial year, according to the council’s [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council homelessness costs: the complete guide

October 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s homelessness ledger tells a stark story. Between April and September 2025, the district council paid £543,556.40 for temporary accommodation, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Plan to Cut Temporary Accommodation Costs

October 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Cabinet backs a £5m plan to buy 20 council-owned homes for temporary accommodation and temporarily switch up to 20 existing council properties — as usage has doubled from [...]

Folkestone & Hythe DC Temporary Accommodation Costs Forecast to Rise £273,500 (≈30%) to £1.2m in 2025/26

October 14, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council warns that the cost of housing homeless households in temporary accommodation (TA) is spiralling. In 2024/25 the council’s own [...]

FOI Discrepancies Throw Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Costs Into Doubt

August 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) has once again managed the impossible: spending millions of pounds on Temporary Accommodation without actually knowing how much [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Accommodation Costs Hit Record £926K as Affordable Housing Falls Short

June 20, 2025 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council spent £919,871 on temporary accommodation in 2024/25—its highest annual total on record—despite investing in affordable housing [...]

Serious Discrepancies Found in Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Temporary Accommodation Costs

May 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is facing serious questions over the reliability and consistency of its published data on Temporary Accommodation (TA) costs, after a [...]

Truth on Hold: Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s FOI Responses Don’t Add Up

April 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

In an age where public trust in institutions is increasingly fragile, accuracy and transparency are more important than ever—especially when it comes to how councils manage [...]

Council set to borrow £90m to fund New Leisure Centre, Otterpool Park & FOLCA 2

February 5, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is set to borrow £90m on three capital projects which include £58m on Otterpool, £23m on a new lesiure centre and £7.5m on FOLCA [...]

Council Temporary Accommodation costs at highest levels ever

January 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

The reality of the figures published by Folkestone & Hythe District Council in their payment to suppliers data shows incontrovertibly the cost of housing people in [...]

More than 1000 households forced into temporary accomodation in last five years at a cost of £1.9m

October 7, 2023 // 0 Comments

Temporary Accommodation is accommodation provided in connection with a local authority’s statutory homelessness obligations under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996, (as [...]

242 Homeless Households Moved Out Of Our Communities In Thirty Months.

September 28, 2019 // 3 Comments

More than 240 households have been sent away from the Folkestone & Hythe District and placed into temporary accommodation elsewhere in the last thirty months, as there [...]

£971,000 And Rising

January 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

It’s like watching a car crash happen in slow motion. The Bed & Breakfast Figures are creeping ever so slowly towards breaking the £1 million pound barrier for the [...]

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