“Buy Land They’ve Stopped Making It”
“Buy land because they’ve stopped making it”, so said Mark Twain. Well SDC have done just that, all 144.147 Hectares or 357 Acres at Otterpool Lane [...]
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Rubbing Salt Into The Wounds.
Do you think Cllrs are worth the money they get? If we look at the various things going on around our wonderful district, such as development in New Romney, the probable [...]
The Cat Is Out of The Bag 2.
We Know the Council, Shepway District Council have bought the land at Otterpool Manor Farmland previously owned by the Champneys. Part of the Land – Lot 6 has a SSSI [...]
If They Had a Backbone, They Would be Able to Deal with This.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. In a letter to KCC in Sept 2014 Cllr David Drury Monk said the following with regards to [...]
The Cat is Out of The Bag
On Friday 20th Nov 2015 an informal tender to purchase 357.00 acres or 144.472Ha closed. Shepway District Council have purchased the land for £5.2 million or thereabouts. [...]
Smoke and Mirrors
Things surrounding site 1 and 2 – the possible sites for the Lorry Park – are not what they appear. SDC’s own website demonstrates that they set [...]
Named and Shamed.
Guildhall Surgery, Guildhall Street, Folkestone sits in the most deprived ward across all indicators in Shepway. The main practitioners there are Dr Mohammed Altaf Hossain [...]
No Precise Boundaries Have Been Identified.”
Damien Collins MP and SDC have seemingly shot themselves in the foot. SDC and Damien Collins have released a definitive boundary map of the alleged “chosen” site [...]
Not a Done Deal.
Operation Stack blights the landscape, ruins our journeys and cost everyone a lot of money. We believe most people could agree with these three facts. The 1st Consultation [...]
Who is Geoffrey Boot?
Geoffrey G Boot known locally as Baron Boot was a former Conservative Sandgate Parish Councillor and district Councillor, who tried to make Sandgate into a Town, but ran into [...]
Edited Electoral Register
There is little public awareness of the ability to permanently opt out of the Edited Electoral Register under Section 11 of the Data Protection Act 1998. Electoral [...]
Should the Loophole be Closed?
We looked back over the blogs we have written this past year and one stands out the most to us. One which affects many households across our wonderful District of Shepway [...]
J11 Stop 24 Appearances can be Deceptive
Stop 24 Services at J11 Stanford appears to be a normal Motorway Service Area. However, as we known appearances can be deceptive. On the (17.11.1995) A Transfer of the land [...]
“Selling England By the Offshore Pound?”
Chris Lewis Planning Officer of Shepway District Council has been working on “special projects“. One of these “special projects” is a new “High [...]
A Request For SDC Cllrs to undergo a DBS Check.
We wrote to SDC asking them if it was a necessary for SDC Cllrs to have a Disclosure and Barring Service -(DBS) – previously known as a Criminal Record Check done. [...]
Tis the Season to be Jolly.
Some of the laws below are truly archaic, but we’re using their existence to celebrate the history of our much envied legal system, with a liberal dose of humour and [...]
Operation Stack 2 Update
On Wednesday the 16th of December, SDC Cabinet convened. One of the things they discussed were the sites proposed for the Lorry Parks sites which will help with congestion [...]
More Properties Offshore
The extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth is alive and well in Shepway. If you know who [...]
Operation Stack Solutions?
Operation Stack has been implemented 48 times between 1997 and January 2015 with an average duration of 5-6 days a year. However in first 7 months of 2015, Operation Stack [...]
Be Careful the Environment You Choose For It Will Shape You.
Does it matter where waste/refuse is dumped? That’s a rhetorical question we are asking ourselves. Of course it does. It matters if it is in Lydd, New Romney, St Marys [...]
Questions about what some home/land purchasers are trying to hide.
The extent of ownership of British land by offshore companies, generally for tax avoidance and often to conceal dubious wealth is alive and well in Shepway. If you know who [...]
The Destruction of Accountability and Transparency
It is not often we venture into the world of national politics, but this article in the Daily Telegraph is very concerning to us at Shepwayvox. The Local Government [...]
SDC Cllrs Mileage and Subsistence
SDC Cllrs travelling expenses for their own “mode of transport” is as follows: Cars & Vans 45p a mile. Motorbikes 24p a mile. Bicycles 20p a mile. In [...]
Further Conflict of Interests? You decide.
We know that Creative Space and Places run by Andy & Tamasin Jarrett employees of SDC, received grants from SDC to the sum of £13,708. Well two other Community [...]
Inappropriate Expenses Claim Investigation, at last.
So we know Cllr Simmons(pictured) will have to return the money. Will SDC report him to the Police for false accounting? Or Abuse of Position? Both of these being possible [...]