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‘What on earth am I going to do?’ Pensioner’s terror as car repeatedly vandalised

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A terrified pensioner has told how his £15,000 Range Rover has been repeatedly vandalised - with tyres slashed and wing mirrors torn off.Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

Fish Heads Out On Loan

Striker Joins folkestone for a month Sonny Fish has joined Folkestone Invicta on a one-month loan deal, as The Gulls forward looks to gain valuable game time with the Isthmian League Premier Division leaders. Having arrived at Plainmoor last summer, injury misfortune saw Fish ruled out of contention during the opening weeks of the season, before the 22 year-old made his belated debut at Chesham in late October. Having made eleven league appearan…Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

Lidl Folkestone Planning Application 26/0002/FH: Health, Highway Safety and Contamination — The Evidence Behind the Objections

A planning application is supposed to be a tidy exercise: drawings, reports, consultations, decision. Planning committees like certainty. Communities like clarity. Developers like a straight line from “need” to “permission”. Lidl’s Planning application 26/0002/FH—for a Class E(a) retail food store (a supermarket) plus additional Class E units, with parking, landscaping and access—lands in a part of Folkestone where certainty is in short supply, …Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax Rise Explained: Where the Money Goes and What It Means for Local Services

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has begun the annual civic tradition of explaining why everything costs more, while promising not to make it feel like it does. Last year’s actual budget for 2025/26 was signed off by Full Council on 26 February 2025. This year we’re looking at the Budget Strategy for 2026/27 — which is essentially the council saying: “Here are the assumptions, the headaches, and the direction of travel… details to follow.” S…Taxes · Folkestone Read Article

Historic Folkestone library to be sold on open market

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Library services are being relocated into a former Job Centre site in the townFolkestone · Folkestone Read Article

‘We continue with the Reform UK experiment - it’s not working for the people of Kent’

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Folkestone and Hythe’s Labour MP Tony Vaughan says the Reform UK “experiment” at Kent County Council “isn’t working” for residents.Reform UK · Folkestone Read Article

Folkestone Ship Street Gasworks Housing Plan: “Health Impact” Tick-Box, Toxic Land Risks, and Equality Act Red Flags in a Deprived Coastal Ward

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s proposal to transform the derelict former gasworks at Ship Street into 135 homes (planning ref: 25/1316/FH) is now out for public consultation. In this in-depth report, the Shepway Vox Team examines the scheme’s promises and pitfalls – the good, the bad, and the ugly – based solely on two key documents currently available for scrutiny: Arup’s Land Contamination Report (16 June 2025) and Arup’s Health Impact …Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

How Folkestone Library Could Stay at Grace Hill: Three Realistic Plans to Keep the Historic Site Open Without Raising Council Tax Above 3.99%

Works have started on Kent County Council’s new “town-centre hub” at 14 Sandgate Road — the former Woolworths — combining adult education and Folkestone Library, with KCC saying it will open in spring 2026. At the same time, the future of the Grade II listed Grace Hill library building — closed since late 2022 — is hardening from “temporary closure” into something far closer to permanent departure. And the argument, at heart, is not really about…Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

Coastal stabilisation works to protect railway through Folkestone Warren

The post Coastal stabilisation works to protect railway through Folkestone Warren appeared first on Ground Engineering.Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

Folkestone Library: Grace Hill Sale Looms as KCC Set To Move Service to 14 Sandgate Road (Old Woolworths)

When Kent County Council finally shut the doors of Folkestone Library’s landmark Grace Hill building in December 2022, it did so on a stark claim: the building had become unsafe, with “water ingress and mould” serious enough to prevent staff and customers occupying it. More than three years later, the argument has shifted from “temporary closure” to something closer to a permanent reset. At a Cabinet meeting yesterday, KCC’s Cabinet Member for F…Folkestone · Folkestone Read Article

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‘What on earth am I going to do?’ Pensioner’s terror as car repeatedly vandalised

Fish Heads Out On Loan

Lidl Folkestone Planning Application 26/0002/FH: Health, Highway Safety and Contamination — The Evidence Behind the Objections

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax Rise Explained: Where the Money Goes and What It Means for Local Services

Historic Folkestone library to be sold on open market

‘We continue with the Reform UK experiment - it’s not working for the people of Kent’

Folkestone Ship Street Gasworks Housing Plan: “Health Impact” Tick-Box, Toxic Land Risks, and Equality Act Red Flags in a Deprived Coastal Ward

How Folkestone Library Could Stay at Grace Hill: Three Realistic Plans to Keep the Historic Site Open Without Raising Council Tax Above 3.99%

Coastal stabilisation works to protect railway through Folkestone Warren

Folkestone Library: Grace Hill Sale Looms as KCC Set To Move Service to 14 Sandgate Road (Old Woolworths)

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‘What on earth am I going to do?’ Pensioner’s terror as car repeatedly vandalised

Fish Heads Out On Loan

Lidl Folkestone Planning Application 26/0002/FH: Health, Highway Safety and Contamination — The Evidence Behind the Objections

Folkestone & Hythe Council Tax Rise Explained: Where the Money Goes and What It Means for Local Services

Historic Folkestone library to be sold on open market

‘We continue with the Reform UK experiment - it’s not working for the people of Kent’

Folkestone Ship Street Gasworks Housing Plan: “Health Impact” Tick-Box, Toxic Land Risks, and Equality Act Red Flags in a Deprived Coastal Ward

How Folkestone Library Could Stay at Grace Hill: Three Realistic Plans to Keep the Historic Site Open Without Raising Council Tax Above 3.99%

Coastal stabilisation works to protect railway through Folkestone Warren

Folkestone Library: Grace Hill Sale Looms as KCC Set To Move Service to 14 Sandgate Road (Old Woolworths)

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