David v Goliath A Judicial Review Part 2
Updated: 10.20am Shepway District Council instructed the boutique law firm of Solicitors – Linda S Russell (pictured) who specialise in planning and property in their [...]
January 2018
The Long Read: Otterpool Park Update.
Shepway District Council in report C-17-76 – Delivering Otterpool Park – make it clear at Para 1.3 that there is now a 3rd major party interested in securing [...]
David Wimble – land of make believe – Part 3
Thank you, to each and every one of you who wrote to the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) about David Wimble‘s (pictured) claim that the Looker website online [...]
Secrets breed mistrust Sir Roger.
Secrecy can be a nasty practice with people often keeping secrets for all the wrong reasons. Secrets breed mistrust. Today we understand a representative or representatives [...]
David v Goliath. A Judicial Review.
On Thursday the 25th January at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, at The Queen’s Bench Planning Division, an application for a judicial review will be heard [...]
Something is rotten in the district of Shepway – Part 3
Updated: 18 Feb 2018 – see end of post for update Cllr Peter Gane (pictured) spoke against it, local resident Mr Gordon Banks spoke against it and Shepway District [...]
The silence of the Stainers?
Updated May 18 2021 @ 09:10am We understand that the witness statements in the forthcoming case between Mr & Mrs Stainer (pictured) and David Hammond of CR Childs of [...]
Shepway District Council to consider selling Folkestone Indoor Bowls Site.
Shepway District Council (SDC) are considering selling off Folkestone Indoor Bowls Centre on Cheriton Road Folkestone. It is understood that two offers to purchase the site [...]
The side show which has hidden £7 million of borrowing.
The side show which Shepway District Council have used to divert the people from the bad news, may have worked on some of you but certainly not on all of you. The side show [...]
£3.6 Million set aside for more land at Otterpool.
According to documents released at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (page 78) last night, Tuesday 16th Jan, a further £3,675,000 has been set aside for land [...]
Is David Wimble a Fantasist: Part 2
So thirty seven of you have contacted us and informed us that you made contact with the Advertising Standards Agency over David Wimble‘s claim that the Looker website [...]
NHS land in Kent sold off for housing that nurses can’t afford.
20 pieces of land owned by the NHS in Kent – including Medway have or are in the pipeline to be sold off by the government for housing developments unaffordable to the [...]
£971,000 And Rising
It’s like watching a car crash happen in slow motion. The Bed & Breakfast Figures are creeping ever so slowly towards breaking the £1 million pound barrier for the [...]
GP Patient Numbers Grow & Where’s The Money From the Developments?
The events which led up to the closure of the Folkestone East Family Practice (FEFP) (pictured) was a realisation that the practice was struggling to cope with the volume of [...]
Mr Stainer’s “Talent for Telling Stories”
Xmas is always a busy time for Michael Stainer (pictured below), quite apart from making sure the Grand provides its usual range of activities for the festive season. As the [...]
Speculative Discussions.
Channel Ports Ltd & Stop 24 are in ongoing speculative discussions about extending the Lorry Park at Stop 24 by another 300 places. It currently has space for 200 [...]
What We Mean When We Say “The Council”
After 3 years of writing about Shepway District Council and its policies and plans we thought it might be useful to say what we mean when we say “the Council“. [...]