Luck of the Draw.
Recently we received an email from the Nepalese Community about the Clean for the Queen event in Sandgate. Cllr Jan Holben (below) sits on both SDC and Sandgate Parish [...]
April 2016
Folkestone Mayor Failed to Pay Council Tax
Kent Online have run a story about the leader of Thanet Council not paying his council tax The Cllr sets out his reason for non-payment. Now we know people have plausible and [...]
Westenhanger Station & Otterpool Lane Land
We made a mistake, we are though, only human. We misinterpreted what our senior serving source in SDC informed us. The earlier post applies to Westenhanger station which [...]
SDC’s Land @ Otterpool Lane
A senior serving officer within SDC has been able to smuggle out some information regarding the Otterpool Lane Land Development. As we know SDC paid £5.23 million for 357 [...]
The Usual Suspects
The Great and the Good, or rather the Usual Suspects have found their way onto the FOLKESTONE COASTAL COMMUNITY TEAM: Jennifer Childs – Town Clerk/Lead Emily Arnold [...]
SDC’s Bag Man?
In Nov 15 SDC made a tender for land at Otterpool Lane, Sellindge. In Dec 15 SDC were successful with there £5.23 million pound bid. Now we know why SDC bought the land. In [...]
What! You Haven’t Paid Your Council Tax.
Lets start with a very simple question. Would you like the opportunity not to pay Council Tax? We think we know what the answer is. Is it yes?, Of course it is. Shepwayvox [...]
The Leas Club. (build or sell up & sod off)
The Leas Club Folkestone (below) leasehold was sold to Churchgate (Folkestone) Ltd for £3,000,000 (£3 Million) on the 6/05/2008 according to documents lodged at Companies [...]
Negligent Behaviour? You decide.
Shepwayvox has spoken with a former SDC officer who worked for them between 1994 – 2005/6. One of their many responsibilities included compiling the Council’s [...]
Misrepresentation And That’s a Fact
Is it possible for SDC to “Safeguard its reputation from any implication of dishonesty or corruption”? At the Extraordinary, Audit and Standards Committee on [...]
LOBO SCAM
Kent County Council has 25 Lender Option, Borrower Option (LOBO) Loans on its books, worth £442 million, signed between 2005 and 2011, with Barclays, RBS, Dexia and Depfa. [...]
Will Damien Collins Publish his Tax Affairs?
This is Damien Collins MP for Folkestone & Hythe His boss David Cameroon, Prime Minister of the UK has as we all now know published a summary and explanation of his tax [...]
19 Castle Hill Avenue Folkestone CT20 2QU
Shepway District Council Appear to have gone into the lending market for Mortgages. No 19 Castle Hill Avenue, Folkestone CT20 2QU, a property less than 200 metres from the [...]
SDC & Their Offshore Friends.
Shepwayvox’s public face has been a busy boy. (We wish we were so youthful) He has written to the Council regarding certain matters and he has shared with us, via [...]
2 Kent Schools and the Panama Papers
There is evidence in the Panama Papers that the UK’s largest PFI Contractor, Innisfree who own 2 schools in Kent, Ebbsfleet Academy (formerly Swan Valley Secondary [...]
Princes Parade & An Abuse of Power
Does Shepway District Council belong in the Rotten Borough section of Private Eye, when it comes to Princes Parade? On Wednesday (Tomorrow) 6th April 2016 SDC Resources [...]
The 56 Steps to Darby Road.
You know when sitting next to someone in a coffee shop, sometimes you can get chatting to a complete stranger. It happened to one of our members a few weeks back and now what [...]
A Reminder of Why We Need to Speak Truth to Power
History has a way of coming back and biting us on the posterior. Here is a global reason why Investigative Journalism is such a necessary tool. It is to speak truth to power [...]
Mr Stainer & Master Barratt.
What is Michael Stainer – not the owner of the Grand, “just the manager of the freehold” – game? A senior source who works for Mr Stainer informs the Vox that he [...]
A Curate’s Egg
In a conversation with a sitting Conservative Cllr the Vox were informed that the new Broom and head of Communities, Sarah Robson (Since Nov 15) has reorganised her [...]