Do they or Don’t they?
I paid SDC for their contracts register when the books were open. This is what they gave me. It is exactly the same as you can find in a previous blog entitled SDC Contracts [...]
August 2015
Stop the Knock
In 2014/15, Shepway District Council instructed bailiffs to collect debts from individuals and businesses on 3647 occasions – up 141% in two years. The number of debts [...]
SDC Legal
Legal Cases are usually not spoken about by our Council or many other Councils up and down the land. I did an FOI to Shepway about ALL legal cases but received back only [...]
Facebook Right or Wrong?
It has come to my attention that Cllr Susie Govett UKIP New Romney has held a constituency surgery by using Facebook. See below. Shepwayvox contacted the ICO and were [...]
Anomalies in SDC Accounts Part 2
Cllr Russell Tillson (pictured below) was formerly an elected Shepway District Council Cllr for Dymchurch. He lost his seat in the recent elections of May 2015. Former Cllr [...]
SDC Cllr Allowances
Below are the allowances received by SDC Councillors for the year April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015. The sum total claimed by ALL councillors was £335,370.37 see SDC Cllr [...]
SDC Contracts Register
Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]
Not a lot of people know that
1 2 3 Attached at 1,2,3, are copies of Shepway District Council’s Investments held in instant access deposit accounts from1/04/14 – 31/03/15 including interest [...]
Mass Data Purge
I have sent this FOI requests see below. It is about a mass data purge of information . I argue that disclosure of the data purge information would facilitate the [...]
Anomalies in SDC Accounts
As of this morning – 10/08/15 – I have made a complaint to both the Head of Finance of Shepway District Council [SDC] and the Auditor – Grant Thornton [...]
SDC and its company Oportunitas Ltd
SDC set up a company by the name of Oportunitas Ltd, registered at Companies House, after the elections new directors were added for obvious reasons and available to view for [...]
Shepway District Council Debt Levels
As of the 31st March 2015 Shepway District Council had debt levels of sixty two million, three hundred thousand pounds (62.3m). While discussing the accounts during the 20 [...]
Criminals in our Council Chamber? You decide.
Shepway District Cllrs are Data Controllers. As a data controller one must by law, be signed up to the ICO Register of Data Controllers. To not sign up is a criminal offence, [...]