February 2016
It certainly appears that Thirty Six out of Forty three Ashford Borough Council (ABC) Councillors are NOT signed up to the Register Of Data Controllers. As you may or may not [...]
Amazon and J10A M20
Recently a member of the Shepwayvox Team attended the exhibition at Willesborough Community Forum. It was all about the new development of Junction 10a M20, which is to be [...]
Hypocrisy
“Hypocrisy (noun) : The pretence of possessing virtues, beliefs, or qualities that one does not really have. ” Longman Dictionary 2015 Do you believe there is one [...]
Everything’s Gone Green
Every thing’s Gone Green so New Order said and no more so than in Hythe South Ward by-election. No polling cards were sent out on the basis that it would cost too [...]
Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant
Behind Closed Doors at 5-pm Today 24 Feb 2016, SDC Cabinet made up of 9 Tory Cllrs will discuss the Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant and more specifically the legal [...]
Behind closed doors, shit happens.
On Wednesday 24 Feb at 5pm 9 Tory Cllrs and a number of SDC Officers will seat themselves in the Civic Centre Chamber and discuss Oportunitas Ltd and Hythe Town Green [...]
Read All About It.
EXCLUSIVE: Shepwayvox has been accused of bias. We have held an internal investigation and this is our report. It has concluded that “All power tends to corrupt; absolute [...]
One Million Three Hundred and Forty Thousand Pounds
SDC have a company by the name of Oportunitas Ltd. We have written about the company before see → Something Is Rotten in the District of Shepway Well Oportunitas Ltd [...]
Council Tax League Table by Town & Parish Councils for Shepway 2016/17
Council Tax League Table by Town & Parish Council for 2016/17 Band D is used as the average across Council Tax. We have minused all other parts of the precept even when [...]
Expenses Investigation Report after 7 Months. What do you Think?
In July 2015 the public face of Shepwayvox got hold of all Cllrs expenses and as a team we waded through them. We discovered significant anomalies and began to post [...]
Serious Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in Shepway Workplaces.
Shepwayvox was contacted by a person who had experienced serious sexual harassment and discrimination in their workplace. We decided to investigate and have collected [...]
Who is Tracy Anita Conroy?
On a sleepy street in the East of Folkestone there resides a Director and shareholder of two British Virgin Island(BVI) Companies. Mrs Tracy Anita Conroy is a Director and [...]
Who owns the Folkestone Herald?
The Folkestone Herald and its sister papers around the country changed hands late last year and a large chunk was bought by the Trinity Mirror Group. Part of the paper is [...]
Only the Rich and Elderly Will Own Homes in the Next Decade in Shepway
We know that 39.6% of Shepway residents have no qualification as revealed by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). That means roughly 42,000 people in Shepway. We know [...]
You Could and Should Do Better
A study released by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on the 26th January 2016, shows that tens of thousands of Tax Credits claimants – some of them with full [...]
Council Tax Scam 2
We brought you this story late last year Council Tax Scam. At the time 11 Parish councils had increased their precepts, now that is 12 as Lydd have done so too. We called for [...]
Interest On Debts Grow Without Rain
In our blog Do you feel safe now? we posed the question “With a track record like this in Business do you the residents of Shepway feel safe now, knowing that Cllr [...]
Another Cat Another Bag
Chris Lewis of SDC who was Head of Planning Services and now been moved to Head of Special Projects regarding J11 at Stanford has been tasked with developing the Reuben [...]
Build Now Pay Later 2
According to SDC’s House Building Requirement (Core Strategy 2013) The policy requirement for the period 2013 to 2025/26 is for 3,965 new houses. SDC though admit [...]
War & Peace (Or How Football Saved Lives)
According to this article in the Folkestone Herald two youths have been “slammed” for playing football under the Step Short Arch War Memorial in Folkestone. We at [...]
We Love the NHS
3 nights ago we watched a suspected heart attack vicitim being taken fom his home in Burmarsh/ The ambulance arrived, we as a bunch of lads watched an ambulance arrive [...]
Twelve Grand Donation for Eversley College!
On the 14th May 2013 a planning application was submitted to develop Eversley College, Coolinge Lane Folkestone – ref Y13/0175/SH (page 67 onwards) to SDC (now [...]
Selling The Family Silver
It is ironic we think that in an age of austerity that the local Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Association; based at 4 Westcliff Gardens, has had nearly ten years of [...]