Easing Their Departure.
Many staff either employed by Shepway District Council (SDC) or let go have received payments to ease their departure from previous jobs or for leaving SDC. According to the [...]
August 2016
Compulsory Purchase Order Powers to be used for M20 Lorry Park site
In the next 4 weeks Highways England will use Compulsory Purchase Order powers to buy the 250 acre site(Map Below), at Stanford west, owned by local farmer David Holt, [...]
Immigration, Housing and Xenophobia.
For some people, it’s Pavlovian: mention the housing crisis, and on they drone about how “Britain is full”; rents are high because asylum seekers are all given [...]
Some Home Truths
There are not enough houses in Shepway. Regardless of what anyone says. One can argue that 12,000 should not be built at Otterpool Park, but it is impossible to say that we [...]
Cllr David Owen’s Integrity Compromised? You decide.
The owners of No 9, Mill Leas, Lower Black House Hill, Hythe are Mr Richard James Hubbert & Annette Jewell. They applied for planning permission on the 02/10/2015 to [...]
SDC, Misleading the Old, The Frail, Infirm & Disabled
Shepway District Council have misled the old, frail, infirm and disabled by omission. Their advertising online and in Shepway Today was reported to the Advertising Standards [...]
Are Cllr Monk & Jim O’Sullivan Cockalooloo?
In an area where water is scarcer per person than it is per person in Morocco or Egypt (Pg 8), Shepway District Council (SDC) wish to build up 12,000 homes and Highway [...]
Tapped Up By Affinity Water.
If you’re living in Shepway you’ll have seen your water bills steadily rise since the supply was privatised in 1989. The companies you’ve been paying to have changed, [...]
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” L.P.Hartley And so it was for Shepway District Council with regards to there Statement of [...]
Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass.
Shirley Jackson (not her real name) steps out from her ground floor flat and lets rip: problems with overflowing bins and seagulls, the lack of parking, development ruining [...]
Not Fit For Purpose? You Decide.
Sopra Steria is probably a name not many of you may know, why would you? Hands up if you do know who they are and what they do for Shepway District Council. Oh alright then [...]
Stewart Needs Love.
Alistair Stewart the CEO of SDC has had a heart attack last week, we pass on our best wishes to him and wish him a speedy recovery. He is currently not fit for purpose due [...]