Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy
“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]
September 2021
Community Infrastructure Levy miscalculated by Folkestone & Hythe District Council leaving Town & Parish Councils out of pocket
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have, according to Report AuG/21/12 released to the Audit & Governance Committee, miscalculated the Community Infrastructure Levy [...]
99% of claimants for Council Tax Reduction are exceedingly honest.
A Shepway Vox Team investigation has discovered that 10,203 people have had their claims for Council Tax reduction processed by an algorithm and not informed by Folkestone [...]
Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.
What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update
On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), is a simple piece of legislation. Pretty much anybody can make a request for information to a public authority under the FoIA [...]
Council accidentally release Covid Grant data
Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]
Council buy Ship Street Site for £400,000
Finally, Folkestone & Hythe District Council are the owners of the Ship Street site in Folkestone, where they want to build up to 85 homes. The invoice makes it clear the [...]
Kent County Council’s LED streetlights decimating moth numbers
“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a study has found. The study is the [...]
KCC aware of overcharging for Adult Social Care in January 2021
Back in June 2021, we ran a post titled: Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests In July the Kent [...]
Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.
No they didn’t see it. Yes they should have seen it, but it was for some inexplicable reason withheld from them. How do the Councillors who sit on the Task & Finish [...]
The children who no-one knows what to do with
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It” In 2019 Children in [...]
Part 2 – Kent Donors to local and national Labour Party
When it comes to the motives of donors there is a presumption of guilt. Base motives will be assumed by most, if not all. However, that said we happen to believe that [...]