Solutions to lower your Council Tax by £128
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 [...]
March 2023
Council company Oportunitas will not generate sufficient profit to meet its operating costs until 2031
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
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!
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
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
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
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?
“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
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
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
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
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 [...]