March 2023

Sewage discharges fall due to drier weather, not Southern Water’s actions

March 31, 2023 // 6 Comments

The data released by the Environment Agency regarding the total duration (hours) of all spills by Southern Water, prior to processing into the sea and the East Stour river, [...]

Double helping of cock ups at last night’s full council

March 29, 2023 // 2 Comments

So it was a cock up, another one, but not the only one on last night’s agenda at the final full Council, before the elections on 4 May 2023. Cllr Keen (Lab) asked her [...]

Oportunitas update: True & Fair Bulls**t

March 27, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 28 March @ 11:05am How, how could this happen? How can the directors of Oportunitas be employees of the Council, and be elected Cllrs, when that’s not [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Under Starters Orders

March 26, 2023 // 13 Comments

So we are under starters orders. The Otterpool Park planning application; which we said at the beginning of this month had a provisional date of 4 April 2023, has now been [...]

Solutions to lower your Council Tax by £128

March 24, 2023 // 6 Comments

This is a Guest Post Hello peps, today I am going to explain how it is possible to lower your Council Tax, and put some money away into the Council’s piggy bank more [...]

Council company Oportunitas will not generate sufficient profit to meet its operating costs until 2031

March 23, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 23/03/23 @ 18:30 Back in Sept 2022 we pointed out that Oportunitas Limited a company wholly owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council was incorporated [...]

Unaddressed systemic issues are holding back Council’s development

March 21, 2023 // 5 Comments

This is a guest post I am a Folkestone & Hythe District Council Officer. What is written here is a distallation of my own and other colleagues opinions. All opinion [...]

Curiouser and curiouser!

March 18, 2023 // 6 Comments

Well things are turning stranger by the minute. With regards to the Hythe West by-election, which we wrote about on the 3 March 2023, raising the issues of missing votes, and [...]

Just for the record

March 16, 2023 // 13 Comments

This is a guest post For the record and for clarity, my name is Bryan Rylands (pictured). I am the public face of The Shepway Vox Team. I am one of nine members of the [...]

Council set new record on temporary staff costs

March 14, 2023 // 1 Comment

It’s a new record and yes they’re record breakers. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £1,364,558 on temporary staff between April 22 and Jan [...]

Council not publishing information in a timely manner

March 11, 2023 // 1 Comment

In Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s recently published Code of corporate governance it states at Part G: We comply with the local government transparency code [...]

Is she, or isn’t she?

March 9, 2023 // 3 Comments

“The Section 151 Officer is responsible to the Council for ensuring that appropriate advice is given on all financial matters, for keeping proper financial records and [...]

Fuel Poverty: Hythe sees largest rise in fuel poverty, while Folkestone Central remains in first position

March 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

While our MP Damian Collins received taxpayers cash to heat his second home, 11% of households in the Folkestone & Hythe District were living in fuel poverty in 2020, [...]

Kent MPs stay warm at taxpayers expense, while Kent children go cold

March 4, 2023 // 0 Comments

9 of the 17 Kent MPs have claimed more than £28,000 on expenses to pay energy bills in their second homes over the last six years, the Shepway Vox Team can reveal. Taxpayers [...]

Something doesn’t add up about the Hythe West By-election

March 3, 2023 // 2 Comments

Congratulations to Cllr Jenni Hawkins (Green) (pictured) for winning the local by-election for the Kent County Council – Hythe West Division The Conservative candidate [...]

Provisional date set for Otterpool Park Planning application to be heard

March 1, 2023 // 6 Comments

So eight years and five months after Folkestone & Hythe District Council purchased the land at Otterpool Lane, from the Champney Brothers for £5m, the planning [...]

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