July 2016

On Saturday 6th August a mass demonstration will be taking place in Hythe, against Development across Shepway & Ashford. Demonstrators will gather from 10.30AM onwards [...]

If you are free today and have nothing better to do, why not pop along to Sunflower House, Foord Rd, Folkestone, for a free Training Day on how to Investigate Companies from [...]

Some casual research earlier this year in to the activities of Oportunitas Limited (OL) led to the profile of one Alan Ewart-James, Hythe Town Councillor and Shepway District [...]

If there has been unauthorised and fraudulent expenditure at Shepway District Council, is our external auditor Grant Thornton able to investigate?  Yes, but to [...]

Each quarter Shepway District Council (SDC) must publish purchase orders above £5000. SDC as we have informed you say they will not release the PO’s for inspection, while [...]

SDC are being both patronising and disingenuous regarding our public face access to the accounts which are open to inspection until Friday 12th August. They have refused [...]

SDC’s Planning Advisor, Mr. C Lewis, has been a busy person, in the last financial year 2015/16. For most of it, he does what he does at SDC, but then in November & [...]

The Residents of the troubled Grand, not to be confused with holiday makers who stay in the 17 apartments owned privately by Mr.and Mrs Michael Stainer of which more later, [...]

Jeremy Chambers, a Shepway District Council Corporate Director (below) has been very hospitable on our behalf. Jeremy took seven people to lunch on Wednesday 3rd June 2015, [...]

Oportunitas Ltd  is a company solely owned by SDC. The Council has created this company to help promote new employment and housing opportunities across Shepway, so it says [...]

Dr Susan Priest, (below,) a product of St Catherine’s College Cambridge, from whom she received a PhD in the examination of the effectiveness of government policy to [...]

On Tuesday the 16th February, the Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick  McLoughlin MP (pictured) – (all information comes from SDC’s CEO Alistair [...]

Residents of Shepway we Shepwayvox call upon your help. All Cllrs expenses – all 4 quarters are now online below as promised. There is so much information we have not [...]

For a second year in a row there are anomalies in SDC Councillors Allowances and Expenses claims. Cllrs have learned some new tricks and we the ratepayers of Shepway are [...]

The land at Otterpool lane was bought by SDC by sealed tender. It was sold to SDC because they were the only bidder who bid for ALL the land. All the other bidders wished to [...]