Cheriton Shepway Ward Profile May 2015 East Folkestone East Folkestone -2- East Folkestone Foreword .......................................................................................................5 Brief introduction to area ...........................................................................6 Map of area ..................................................................................................7 Demographics ..............................................................................................8 Local economy ..............................................................................................12 Education and skills .....................................................................................16 Health & wellbeing .......................................................................................18 Housing .........................................................................................................23 Neighbourhood/ community .....................................................................25 Planning and development ........................................................................27 Physical Assets ............................................................................................ 28 Arts and culture ............................................................................................31 Crime .............................................................................................................33 Endnotes/ websites ..................................................................................... 34 -3- East Folkestone -4- East Folkestone Foreword Dear Reader One of Shepway District Council’s priorities is to and local community facilities and amenities. This provide opportunities for elected members and local information is grouped by themes in order to make it residents to work together to influence decisions as easy as possible to find the information you want. and shape their local community. We know how important good information is in helping people to The information on community assets for this profile understand local issues, identify service need and was gathered by working in collaboration with find ways to improve local services and amenities. partners and by engaging with local community and That is why I am proud to present the ward profile voluntary groups. I would like to personally thank for the new electoral ward of East Folkestone, everyone who has contributed to this document. which I hope you will find an interesting and The statistical information was primarily drawn from informative read. the 2011 Census, unless otherwise stated. Other sources include: The purpose of the ward profile is to: • 2013 Midyear population estimates from • Provide a shared resource for people the Office of National Statistics1 wanting to find out about their local • Acorn Customer Insight Profiler2 community; • Kent and Medway Public Health • Support elected members with their Observatory3 community role as civic leaders and • Kent County Council Research and community champions; Intelligence Team4 • Provide elected members with useful information about their new ward; Some of the data within this profiler was specially • Assist elected members with identifying commissioned by Shepway District Council so it priorities that could potentially be included may not be publically available elsewhere in the in their ward plan; displayed format. The data will evolve and expand • Provide a resource that is made publically as government agencies recalibrate their data available for wider use by the public and publishing to the new ward boundaries within voluntary / community groups (e.g. to Shepway. support funding bids). We will develop our ward profiles over time and we Our intention is for ward profiles to be used as would really appreciate your feedback on this ward widely as possible and to be made available to profile so we can make sure it is as up-to-date and Councillors, council officers, Town and Parish relevant as possible. Please provide any feedback to Councils, voluntary and community groups, as [email protected]. well as the general public on the council website www.shepway.gov.uk This ward profile contains a variety of information Alistair Stewart on demographics (e.g. population, deprivation); Chief Executive population outcomes; the level of service provision -5- East Folkestone East Folkestone The new East Folkestone Ward is partly made the ownership of the Clinton family and heirs for up of what was previously Folkestone East ward, much of the time. By 1769 the manor was owned by although the eastern boundary of the new ward Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1750– has moved so that its eastern border now runs 1828)8. along Dover Road and Hill Road. The new ward has absorbed what was Folkestone Foord ward and also The oldest landmark in this ward in 1769 was that the most easterly parts or Folkestone Park ward, of Castle Hill, a spur of the North Downs, the site which includes Downs Road, Dolphin Road, Walton of what was Folkestone Castle. The castle was Gardens and Walton Manor, as well as Broadmead possibly constructed as early as 1095 AD on a Road, Bournemouth Road and St John’s Church natural mound and occupied through the 11th Road. & 12th centuries. The remaining earthworks of this structure now overlook the end of the M20 A 1769 map of Folkestone5 shows that at this motorway and the entrance to the Channel Tunnel time the area covered by the East Folkestone ward at Cheriton9. was made up of rural meadows and arable land, interspersed with dwellings and cottages6. There Although these ancient sites have all but were three main landmarks in the region, Ford- disappeared Foord, Walton Manor and Castle Hill Forstall at the southern end of the ward, Walton are familiar street names in Folkestone today. The Manor roughly situated in the middle of the ward, history behind them reveals an interesting and and in the north of the ward, up on the Downs, extensive heritage that the people of East Folkestone Castle Hill. continue to enhance through their commitment to the community in which they live. Ford-Forstall, the neighbourhood now known as Foord, was a hamlet that had a chalybeate7 spring, As Folkestone’s infrastructure, economy and mineral spring waters containing salts of iron. The community are not confined by the ward boundaries most renowned chalybeate in Kent was discovered it is important to have regard for the information in at Tunbridge Wells in 1606. Chalybeate water was the ward profiles of Folkestone Harbour, Folkestone said to have health-giving properties and many Central and Broadmead. Many of the health, people endorsed the drinking of it. education and social facilities that the community accesses are located in other ward areas. By the reign of Henry VIII Walton Manor was already centuries old and had been in -6- East Folkestone -7- East Folkestone Demographics Most of the northern half of the East Folkestone ward forms part of the Kent Downs, called Folkestone Downs and Creteway Downs. Although there are residential properties in these areas most of the population live in the southern half of the ward, a dense residential area. The 2013 midyear population estimates from the Office of National Statistics gives the population of East Folkestone as 11,770 with males 5,730 and 6,040 females. The graph below shows each age as a proportion of the total population. Both charts shown below demonstrate that the ward has a higher proportion of people aged 0-19, a higher proportion of people aged 20-34 and a lower proportion of older people than Kent and Shepway as a whole. -8- East Folkestone Marital status and living arrangements In East Folkestone there are 3,366 married couples which equates to 37% of the population aged over sixteen. This is lower than the figure for Shepway or Kent. Proportionally there are also more divorcees and single people in the ward. Married 3,366 Cohabiting 1,276 Same-sex civil partnership or cohabiting 89 Single (never married) 2,570 Married or in civil partnership 64 Separated (but still legally married) 274 Divorced 846 Widowed 512 -9- East Folkestone Ethnicity Nearly 92% of the residents in East Folkestone are of English/ Welsh/ Scottish/ Northern Irish origins. There is a significant ‘other white’ portion which, as a proportion of the total population, is in line with Kent and District averages. East Folkestone Shepway Kent English/ Welsh/ Scottish/ NI 10,912 91.9% 90.8% 89.1% Irish 92 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% Gypsy or Irish Traveller 19 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% Other White 368 3.1% 3.0% 3.6% White and Black Caribbean 60 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% White and Black African 18 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% White and Asian 37 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% Other Mixed 30 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% Indian 35 0.3% 0.4% 1.2% Pakistani 29 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% Bangladeshi 57 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% Chinese 39 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% Other Asian 95 0.8% 2.5% 1.2% African 34 0.3% 0.3% 0.8% Caribbean 23 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% Other Black 8 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% Arab 3 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% Any other ethnic group 20 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% -10- East Folkestone Length of residence in the UK Most residents in East Folkestone have lived in the UK since birth or have been in the country for more than 10 years. East Folkestone Shepway Kent Born in the UK 10,982 92.4% 90.8% 90.9% Less than 2 years 62 0.5% 1.2% 1.2% More than 2 years and 154 1.3% 1.6% 1.5% less than 5 years More than 5 years and 173 1.5% 1.6% 1.8% less than 10 years 10 years or more 508 4.3% 4.9% 4.6% Main Language (for residents aged