Company has contract to house asylum seekers removed
The Home Office is ending a company’s contract to provide accommodation for asylum seekers.Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) ...
New-build estate that has created ‘horrendous chalk scar’ in Folkestone Road, Dover, abandoned as developer goes bust
An unfinished housing estate that has created a “horrendous chalk scar” on the landscape has now been abandoned - after a ...
Napier Barracks in Folkestone to stop being used to house asylum seekers in September 2025
A controversial scheme housing asylum seekers in a former military barracks will be scrapped this year, it’s been revealed.
Inside abandoned new-build estate dubbed a ‘horrendous chalk SCAR’ full of half-finished homes as developer goes bust
AN ABANDONED new-build estate has been dubbed a “horrendous chalk scar” full of half-finished houses. Disgruntled locals have ...
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Call to express interest in buying former library
Community groups have just over a month to express an interest in taking over the former Folkestone library building ... and has not been used since. Kent County Council (KCC), which owns the ...
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Large solar farm to power thousands of homes
Folkestone and Hythe District Council aims to build the facility on agricultural land in Court-at-Street, Lympne A large solar farm is set to power almost half of a Kent town and make millions for ...