Protect & Preserve The Folkestone Leas

Has The Folkestone Leas Lift Company Created The Perfect Conditions  For Another Landslide To Come?  As you are all aware, I have covered landslides and the part tall heavy trees sitting on the cliff face summit along the whole of the Leas escarpment many times these past 10 months. I raised these issues with FHDC over many emails and 2 site meetings with Councillor Speakman before most of the landslides took place. I warned the council that the height and weight of at least half a dozen trees on the Zig Zag path threatened the path with a future catastrophic collapse, which could render the path out of operation for many months, perhaps years, perhaps forever.      The 1784 Leas landslide in Folkestone was primarily caused by a combination of heavy, sustained rainfall and the area's unstable coastal geology. Rainwater seeped into the weakly cemented sandstone and chalk, adding weight while lubricating the underlying clay, which ultimately caused the cliff ...

  Just a typical sight outside the towns' Sainsburys every day, in fact, I have never seen it this bad anywhere else I have lived in the country. I lived mostly in Bexley, and more recently in Lincolnshire and Nottingham, before moving back to my home county. This is the same outside KFC, Iceland, the Folca building , the Premier shop in Sandgate Road , and every boarded-up shop in the town centre. This is what Folkestone has now become: a warehouse for drunks, druggies and their dealers, beggars and rough sleepers, with many having dogs with them. It certainly never was noticeable to me in March 2023 when I moved to the town centre, not throughout 2024, but then suddenly in 2025, we seemed to be overrun by an invasion of mostly white middle-aged men and a small number of women, all aggressively high on alcohol or drugs or an addictive diet of the two. Last year, we saw an explosion of these aggressive miscreants arriving on our town centre streets, the Leas and the R...