May 2016

“A report  explaining how we (SDC) will make a formal Expression of Interest (Otterpool Park Garden Village) will be available to the public on May 31 and will be debated at cabinet on June 8.” This is a quote from SDC. Firstly nothing has been made ‘Public’ on the website [Click to Read More]

We know that SDC are as transparent as the darkest night in an Antarctic winter. Well now we know they, SDC,  have the pretence of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that they do not actually possess. In short, their behaviour is hypocritical. If you walk out of the Civic Centre and go up [Click to Read More]

EXCLUSIVE In a former post we asked the question: Have SDC approached the farmers who own the land yet? We can exclusively confirm that SDC have approached two of the farmers. The third farmer has been approached by the Arena Racing Company (ARC). We understand that ARC approached the third farmer [Click to Read More]

Most have us neighbours. Our neighbours like us have an address. So look to the left of you, look to the right of you, behind and in front of you, because you never know, your neighbour might just be in our prepared Panama Paper database below. All the addresses below are arranged by postcode [Click to Read More]

The land which is situated in the broad boundary of the Otterpool Park Garden Village scheme (see map below), is owned by three farmers according to the Land Registry. The Farmers are: Mr M. Owen, Mr R Price and Ms Jo Butcher. At some point these farmers will be approached to sell there land, or [Click to Read More]

The Otterpool Park Garden Village will, if it gets the go ahead, have caveats attached to it. One of these caveats will be a section 106 agreement. Section 106 is a clause within the 1990 Town and Country Planning Act that provides a mechanism to recoup contributions from developers (towards [Click to Read More]

After receiving the recent edition of “Shepway Today”, here at Shepway Vox we were surprised to find over 100 grammatical or spelling errors littered through this 24 page “puff piece” publication. The Communications team is lead by Mark Luetchford, who used to work in communications in [Click to Read More]

Do you have parents, family, friends, neighbours who are frail, infirm, disabled  and depend on Lifeline? “Shepway Lifeline is a Telecare Service Provider that covers the whole of Kent. The service is based at Shepway District Council and has been running for over 30 years” SDC [Click to Read More]

We recently informed you that SDC officers and its elected officials are in private talks with Arena Racing Company (Arc), the company who own Folkestone racecourse. ARC is ultimately owned by the Reuben Brothers and the company is registered offshore in the British Virgin Islands David and Simon [Click to Read More]

Shepway is not immune to change or gentrification. Average Property Prices outside London have now risen to £300,000 according to Reed Raines & leading property firm LSL. Its research showed that house prices had jumped 8.9 per cent in the past 12 months to March. One Can see how House prices [Click to Read More]