At the Hythe Town Council meeting on October 17 2024, long time Save Princes Parade supporter, Chris Farrell had a question for Folkestone, Hythe & District Council leader, Jim Martin. As you know, Princes Parade is a unique piece of land to the east of Hythe, between the Royal Military Canal and the English Channel. […]
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The hoardings have gone and the new fencing that has been put up is neat and discrete – however there’s still a lot of rubbish left over – including some large metal panels, concrete blocks and plastic fencing material. We hope there are plans to remove it. The new fencing allows a great view of
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Although the hoardings have come down the land is still contaminated from its time as an unregulated landfill – one of the reasons why it was unsuitable for development! The new fencing is low and discreet to restore the views over the land but it is unsafe to ignore it.
The hoardings at Princes Parade are now being dismantled with the intention that they will be put to use at the council’s Otterpool Park development.The work is expected to take two to three weeks so it should be completed in early May 2024. Then the pressing question will be: what is to become of the
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Prince Parade has been saved – and to celebrate the achievement by campaigners and thousands of local residents Folkestone’s Tower Theatre is putting on an evening of music, theatre and comedy hosted by popular local musician, Jack Pound. It takes place on Friday December 1st at 7.30pm Tickets are still available and cost just £10
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This is the ambition of the Council which has committed to abandoning the plans for developing this contaminated site and is looking into what needs to be done to allow the removal of the hoardings and allowing public access once more. Using funds from the existing Princes Parade implementation budget, it is planned to commission
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At the first full council meeting of the newly elected administration held on Wednesday 21st June Councillor Jackie Meade reflected the impatience of the people of the district when she asked Council Leader Jim Martin, “When will the hideous hoardings be removed?” Not yet, as Jim Martin explained, “Following the ground investigations carried out for
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At the first meeting of the new Folkestone and Hythe District Council administration held on Wednesday 24th May, newly elected council leader, Jim Martin announced that while there are a number of obstacles to remove… Princes Parade is saved! The main opposition parties at Folkestone District Council had vowed that if they could get enough
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Following the elections on 4th May, the Green Party became the biggest group on Folkestone & Hythe District Council with 11 councillors. On 24th May, Green and Liberal Democrat councillors formed an administration and Cllr Jim Martin became the Leader of the district council. Councillor Jim Martin posted this update on the Folkestone Green Party
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The struggle to prevent the development of Princes Parade has been a long one. At a rowdy and emotional meeting at Seabrook Hall about twelve years ago council representatives tried to justify developing the Princes Parade seafront and the local residents were angry. Some had to fight their way into the packed meeting and didn’t