‘Disappointment’ After 150 ‘Flagship’ Homes Approved for Derelict School Site

‘Disappointment’ after 150 ‘flagship’ homes approved for derelict school site

Campaigners expressed disappointment after plans for 150 new homes at what is being described as a “flagship” development were voted through.

Hythe Foxwood Homes Plan Approved With No Affordable Housing

Folkestone & Hythe councillors have approved Ureco’s Foxwood scheme for up to 150 homes on the former school site above Seabrook Road, Hythe. The number of affordable homes approved at the start is not 33, not 15, not five and not one. It’s zero. Hythe gets a clawback clause, a bundle of conditions and the familiar planning spectacle in which £86.7m of projected sales can apparently support homes, profit, engineering, fees and landscaping, but n…