Viability Assessment

Proposed 132 Homes for High Knocke, Dymchurch, backed by offshore money.

January 30, 2022 // 2 Comments

An outline planning application [21/2525/FH] for a residential development of 132 dwellings, at High Knocke, Dymchurch, is currently under consultation. The application has [...]

Southern Way: Another developer says he’s poor and can’t afford affordable housing

January 3, 2021 // 2 Comments

It is quite possible that Folkestone & Hythe District Council are learning from their mistakes, as they have again reopened a planning consultation for Southern Way [...]

Tontine Street: Further issues emerge with planning application

November 9, 2020 // 3 Comments

The first law of holes states: “if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging“. Unfortunately, Folkestone & Hythe District Council Planning department do not [...]

“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 [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Elephant in the Room

November 3, 2020 // 4 Comments

The Otterpool Park Financial Viability Assessment (VA) assumes the development to be 100% debt financed. So having taken the time to look at the VA, and also get the views of [...]

Council release largely unredacted Otterpool Park Viability Assessment

October 28, 2020 // 1 Comment

It’s done! It’s official, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have unredacted vast swathes of information contained within the Otterpool Financial Viability [...]

Planning permission for 86-88 Tontine Street was unlawful

October 20, 2020 // 11 Comments

Last night (20th Oct) six Cllrs stuck two fingers up to the courts, as did planning officers of Folkestone & Hythe District Council. Cllrs considered planning application [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Priest Under Pressure

October 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

The courts say they must release it. The Information Upper Tier tribunal say they must release it. But still Folkestone & Hythe District Council, led by Dr Susan Priest, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: £800 million profit for Otterpool Park Development

October 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

Given all the documents available in the public domain regarding the Otterpool Park development, even the redacted Viability Assessment, it’s clear Folkestone & [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Release the unredacted Viability Assessment

October 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving residents and other stakeholders in the [...]

Is Cllr Clive Goddard committing a criminal offence?

September 22, 2020 // 5 Comments

It is simple, so so simple yet he has failed to comply. A discosable pecuniary interest (DPI) is set out in Chapter 7 of the Localism Act 2011 and in the secondary [...]

Otterpool Park update

July 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

It’s always good to make things clear at the very beginning. Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) in relation to Otterpool Park are one of the developers [...]

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