Folkestone and Hythe News

Eric Pickles MP

Government Consultation on Permitted Development Rights

The Department for Communities and Local Government (crazy name, crazy guys) are consulting on proposals "intended to support the Government's priorities for making better use of existing buildings, supporting the high street and rural communities, providing new housing, developing more free schools and contributing to the provision of child care for working families".

4 Sep 2013
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Fake Citizen Advice Bureau Calls

Kent Trading Standards are reporting a "recent flurry" of unsolicited telephone calls in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge & Malling from a man with an Indian accent.

16 Aug 2013
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Eurotunnel service entrance lighting map

A20 Eurotunnel Service Entrance Streetlight Victory

Having attended a meeting today with KCC Highways engineers, Sandgate Parish Councillor Tim Prater has been promised that streetlights at the A20 Eurotunnel Service Entrance near J12 of the M20 will be removed from light turn-off plans.

14 Aug 2013
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He's not going to Love THAT

Shepway Conservative Councillor and Cabinet Member Rory Love has long had aspirations to "go further" in politics. He's previously stood for the Conservatives as a Parliamentary Candidate in Lewes in 2005 (he got hammered by sitting Lib Dem MP Norman Baker), and stood to be on the Conservative Euro list list for South East England in 2004 (although he didn't make it to the election itself).

31 Jul 2013
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