Developers, Donations & Cllrs Attitudes to the Planning System.
The Conservative Manifesto contained a headline commitment to “ensure local people have more control over planning” Yet power still rests with central/local government [...]
January 2017
The Long & Winding Road
The Long & Winding Road which leads us to the door of 80 Sidney Street starts in the British Virgin Islands. It starts at this address: Akara Building 24 De Castro [...]
From Panama City to 80 Sidney Street Folkestone.
Our Journey begins at the headquarters of Mossack Fonsenca (MF), in Panama City, where a little company known as Gentro Group S.A. begun its life on the 7th Sept 2004. When [...]
The Air Which We Breathe.
In Shepway, (now Folkestone & Hythe District Council) there were 58 deaths due to air pollution in 2010. A total of 565 years were lost. The mean anthropogenic PM2.5 (µg [...]
Where’s The Money?
Each month Shepway District Council (SDC) publish their payment to supplier data. Below is a graph which shows £28 million of SDC’s spend data for 2015/16. In [...]
Selling the Family Silver
On the 8th June 2016 the sale of 3-5-shornecliffe-rd (pictured) was completed. Shepway District Council sold the building for £990,000 to Highlife Homes Ltd. 3-5 [...]
Requires Improvement.
In late Nov 2016 we ran a story about Care Workers in Shepway not receiving the minimum wage. Back in April 2016 Kentonline ran the story “Allied Healthcare Hythe in [...]
The Strange Life of One Company at 80 Sidney Street.
80 Sidney Street, Folkestone Kent, is an address where over 4300 companies have been registered and/or are registered. One of the companies which started of life at Sidney [...]
Council Tax Is A System of Debt Creation
This is a guest post by Alan Murdie, LL.B, Barrister, editor, CPAG Council Tax Handbook Director, Council Tax Legal Services and Chairman of Nucleus Legal Advice [...]
Is This Man Value for Money?
Is our MP Damian Collins – value for money. He is Kent’s most expensive MP Damian lives approximately 80 miles from London. We know that like many others across [...]
Damian Collins MP& His Council Tax
It is that time of year when your Parish, Town, District and County Council’s turn their minds to setting the Council Tax amount we will pay for 17/18. Council Tax debt [...]
Revealed: Kent’s Police and Mass Mobile Phone Surveillance
Evidence points to Kent Police and other police forces having bought devices that can spy on thousands of phones at a time. CCDC is for Covert Communications Data [...]
SDC’s Otterpool Park Collaboration Board
We know that SDC set up a Collaboration board after they entered into an initial collaboration agreement [...]