Sorry We Haven’t A Clue
Folkestone & Hythe District Council don’t have a clue as they “don’t hold the information“. They haven’t a clue about how much waste they [...]
October 2019
Will our Town & Parish Councils Do Something About Their Statutory ‘Duty’ To Comply With Crime & Disorder Act 1998
In the bleak midwinter when frosty wind made moan and earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, one Cllr went above and beyond his duty to catch thieves stealing the [...]
Would You Stand By This Man?
A year ago, we called Michael Stainer A Grand Fantasist and a Grand Failure. Now, as yet another legal defeat batters the sinking Michael Stainer empire, is it time to call [...]
Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?
Could you be persuaded there is a legitimate interest, and it is in the public interest, or any value to the public or any section of the public, for Folkestone & Hythe [...]
History repeats itself, repeats itself repeats itself, History repeats…
“In ten or twenty years time I see Folkestone as everything everyone wants it to be with a lot more young people, a lot more housing and a lot more industry.” [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Staff Costs look set to breach the £1 million pound barrier for the second time.
It is more likely than not our council, Folkestone & Hythe District Council spending on temporary staff will pass the million pound mark for the financial year 2019/20. [...]
Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet Council Tenants suffered Carbon Monoxide poisoning and hospitalised during failed P & R contract
Exclusive – Updated 22/10/19 – 08:30am The Shepwayvox Team has acquired a growing body of evidence that tenants living in the 17,000 plus properties owned by the [...]
Love Is All You Need
Monday morning at 5am as the day begins, all you need is love, love is all you need. However, that is not what a growing number of people of another race, disability, sexual [...]
Rescuing Democracy From A Quiet Death Behind Closed Doors
Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors, said Lewis H. Lapham. On another blustery, rainy day in Oct, another meeting will take place behind [...]
Cllr Clive Goddard & Russell Tillson interviewed under caution for Alleged Electoral Violations
Cllr Clive Goddard (Con) (pictured) was first elected to the then Shepway District Council – now Folkestone & Hythe District Council – in 2007. He was elected [...]
The End Of The Beginning For East Kent Housing
So the beginning ends. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet has agreed in principal to withdraw from East Kent Housing and begin a consultation process with all [...]
Slum Landlord, Double Payments, Overcharging and Killing Pensioners
Double payments, overcharging, lack of adherence to legislation and a failure to manage the P & R contract, and all the issues raised in Appendix 3: Audit report for East [...]
Will Buying Cheap mean Buying Twice?
Updated 08:30am 15/10/19 It’s not just Cllr Stuart Peall (Con) (pictured) Cabinet Member for Enforcement, Regulatory Services, Waste & Building control, at [...]
EKH rocked by safety issues looks set for closure after two of its owner councils voted to take housing stock back in-house
After more than a year of investigating by the Shepwayvox Team, East Kent Housing looks like it may have run its course after eight years of existence. On Wednesday 9th Oct [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Cllr Georgina Treloar arrested at Extinction Rebellion Protest in London
Cllr Georgina Treloar (Green) has been arrested. She was arrested on Tuesday in London taking part in the Extinction Rebellion protests. We applaud her. Some of members of [...]
Climate Change: Cllrs Will Be On The Wrong Side of History
On Monday we wrote about the Otterpool Park working group meeting behind closed doors. Later that day the Shepway Green Party (SGP) released a statement which reads: [...]
The Hypocrisy & Stupidity of our Elected Councillors
They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk our Cllrs. In the May elections all of the opposition parties Green, Lib Dem and Labour campaigned on a platform of [...]
The Grand’s owners last appeal thrown out of the High Court “Totally without merit”!
In what had to be the last throw of the dice, the Grand’s freeholder, Hallam Estates lost its last battle in the High Court. Seeking to overthrow the July 2018 decision to [...]
First Offshore Pub Becomes Part Of Our District Economy
We’d like to say welcome to the new offshore company which has registered land and property here in the Folkestone & Hythe District. Tavern Propco Limited [...]
Locked Out – Housing benefit freeze is making and keeping people homeless
Families on housing benefit are priced out of almost all homes to rent in districts across Kent, according to new research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in [...]
Emergency workers deserve better.
It seems inconceivable to most of us that anyone would wantonly attack, injure or in any other way assault a nurse, fire officer paramedic or police officer. Yet every day [...]