September 2015

I’ve been reading online small print so you don’t have to – but you need to know how much information you’re giving away. We live in a time of terms and [...]

The standard stuff you provide them… Name City of birth City of residence Phone Email Current employment Previous employment Relationship Anniversary Previous relationships [...]

There are no legal constraints on local authorities raising bonds, but it has not been encouraged by governments since the 1980s. However this changed when an important [...]

On the 29/07/15  Shepwayvox blogged the following post  ICO. Finally ALL Cllrs have now registered on the 15/09/15 some seven weeks later. [Better late than never] This is [...]

In August I wrote a blog about Cllr Susie Govett [UKIP New Romney] using Facebook as a forum for her Constituency Surgery see: Cllr Susie Govett We know that Facebook are [...]

or The Long Slow Death of Accountability Under the Localism Act, there is no longer a requirement for members to declare gifts and hospitality and no legal requirement for [...]

Folkestone Parks And Pleasure Grounds Charity registration charity number 1006288 findable here: Folkestone Parks & Pleasure Grounds Charity also Folkestone Parks & [...]

LAND including Bouverie Place Shopping Centre the Saga Buildings and the former site of Silver Spring are owned by companies based in offshore tax havens it can be revealed. [...]

SDC employ Stanford and Green and Equita as their bailiffs [enforcement agents] for non-payment of Council Tax. It would appear after seeing quite a few emails sent by [...]

Magistrates’ fines and council tax bills are driving increasing numbers of people into problem debt, an advice charity said on Tuesday, as low wages and the increased cost [...]

It is not very often that ShepwayVox will stray into national politics, but this could not go unreported. As  several national newspaper noted on or after  the [...]

If a councillor is in arrears with their Council Tax payments is it a purely personal matter or something of wider public interest? The Government believe it should be the [...]

Once SDC Cllrs have signed up to the Data Register their next legislative requirement is to be penetrated by their processor; SDC IT staff.   Their  computers must [...]

The Government’s desire to place more power into citizens’ hands to increase democratic accountability and make it easier for local people to contribute to the local [...]

There is Data that SDC must publish annually, so this piece will not be a short piece. What is this data local authority land  grants to voluntary, community and social [...]

The Times has reported this morning [01/09/15] (paywall)  that: The legal cornerstone underpinning the entire edifice of bank accounting is defective, according to a QC’s [...]