Council Updates
-
Council Updates Scrutiny committee considers how to set up Betteshanger Country Park task and finish group
Dover District Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee met on 14 September 2026 to work through the practical and constitutional…
15 September 2026 -
Council Updates Maidstone council puts £250,000 into plan to make town safer for women and girls
Maidstone Borough Council has approved a £250,000 action plan to tackle violence against women and girls, with Maidstone town centre…
14 September 2026 -
Council Updates Folkestone & Hythe council unit finds £1.26m in fraud and error across 466 cases
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s investigations team identified £1,266,259 in wrongly claimed funds during 2025/26 — but critics say…
14 September 2026 -
Council Updates Folkestone & Hythe landlords face fines up to £40,000 under new council housing enforcement policy
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has adopted a new civil penalty policy giving it stronger powers to fine private landlords and letting…
13 September 2026 -
Council Updates Officers urge Ashford cabinet to reject calls for shorter Park Mall pedestrian route
Officers recommended that Ashford Borough Council’s cabinet reject a motion and public petition seeking an additional pedestrian exit from…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Ashford parking charges to rise across all council car parks as free parking offers are withdrawn
Ashford Borough Council’s cabinet considered proposals on 10 September 2026 to increase off-street and on-street parking tariffs, introduce…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Kent’s 14 councils, scored: Kent Local News publishes its first full Council Scorecard
Bins, complaints, money, openness and planning, scored from the councils’ own published data and the regulators’ reports. Every council was…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Maidstone refuse truck catches fire after battery speaker put in recycling bin
A battery-powered speaker thrown into a Maidstone recycling bin started a fire in a refuse truck, prompting the borough council to warn…
12 September 2026 -
Council Updates Ashford’s old Odeon and Mecca Bingo building to become cultural venue
Ashford Borough Council is moving forward with plans to return the former Odeon and Mecca Bingo building in the town centre to arts and…
11 September 2026 -
Council Updates Tonbridge and Malling council chief challenges Government over forced housing plan
Council leader Matt Boughton has written to Minister Matthew Pennycook demanding he withdraw a Government direction that forces the borough…
11 September 2026 -
Council Updates Maidstone council hands over 43 new homes and opens Lockmeadow consultation
Maidstone Borough Council’s latest fortnightly bulletin covers two new housing developments, a town centre regeneration consultation, a…
11 September 2026 -
Council Updates Kent and Medway launch five-year plan to tackle suicide stigma
A new strategy running to 2030 sets out where residents across Kent and Medway can get help, and how communities can be better prepared to…
11 September 2026