Kent

Reform UK at KCC Says Councillors’ 3.8% Pay Rise Is “Reasonable” — As Council Tax Rises 3.99%

March 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

At Kent County Council, a 3.99% rise in council tax is apparently the stern medicine residents must swallow. A 3.8% rise in councillors’ allowances, however, is “entirely [...]

Cllr David Wimble’s Problem With Numbers

March 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

When a cabinet member says his party has 76 councillors at Kent County Council, but the official figure is 47, that is not a tiny slip. It is less a rounding error than a [...]

FHDC’s Green Image Meets the East Stour Rubbish Problem

March 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

If the East Stour rubbish sits on or beside land tied to Otterpool Park, then Folkestone & Hythe District Council has a problem no amount of eco-language can mulch away. [...]

Kent Councils’ Environmental Health Powers on Sewage: Who to Contact and What They Can Do

March 16, 2026 // 2 Comments

Yesterday, we looked at What Powers Does Kent’s Director of Public Health Have Over Sewage Pollution. Today, in the final part of this public health series, we turn to the [...]

Kent E. coli Cases, Sewage and the Public Health Risk

March 14, 2026 // 1 Comment

Professor Chris Whitty Chief Medical Officer for England – pictured – warned that sewage in rivers and seas is a public health problem, not merely an [...]

Kent and Medway Food Parcel Crisis: Trussell Data Exposes Hunger Across Every Council

March 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

If anyone in Kent and Medway still wants to pretend the cost-of-living crisis is basically over, the numbers have brought a shovel and are digging up that fantasy. In the [...]

Reform UK KCC Cabinet Member David Wimble’s Looker Accused of Misleading Readers on Kent County Council Debt

March 6, 2026 // 3 Comments

The Shepway Vox Team went back to the documents. What we found was not a careful picture of Kent County Council’s current debt costs, but an old snapshot repackaged as a [...]

Kent Wood-Burner Pollution: 78,380 Estimated Stoves and the Clean Air Powers Councils Aren’t Using

March 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

A set of EPC-based estimates, circulated via a British Medical Jornal (BMJ) rapid response and now re-summed and charted, suggests there are roughly 78,380 domestic [...]

East Kent Sewage Pollution: Southern Water, Five Councils and the Statutory Nuisance Law

March 3, 2026 // 2 Comments

We’re The Shepway Vox Team, and over the past few weeks we’ve watched the same pattern play out again and again. Residents complain that sewage-contaminated discharges [...]

Rough Sleeping in Kent: Snapshot Trends and District Hotspots

March 2, 2026 // 2 Comments

On one night each autumn, Kent’s 12 district councils go out and record how many people are sleeping rough. Not in hostels. Not in night shelters. Not sofa-surfing. Just [...]

Water UK’s Storm Overflows Plan: A 25-Year Delay in England’s Sewage Scandal

March 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

Water UK’s National Storm Overflows Plan for England was launched with the kind of self-congratulation you usually hear just before someone asks you to be patient. It was [...]

Kent Fly-Tipping: Incidents Rise While Enforcement Varies Widely Between Councils

February 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent is the Garden of England. It is also, judging by the latest Defra flytipping data for 24/25, a place where far too many people treat hedgerows, lay-bys and quiet [...]

Southern Water Sewage: The Hidden Cost to Kent’s Sea Swimmers and Seaside Businesses

February 19, 2026 // 4 Comments

Updated: 20/02/26 @ 14:50 This is a long read, because the devil is in the detail — and, in this case, the detail is the difference between “a reassuring icon on a map” [...]

Kent Councils’ Out-of-Area Temporary Accommodation: The FOI Numbers

February 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

When a council accepts that a household is homeless, it often has to find “temporary accommodation” fast. That can mean anything from a hotel or B&B to a short-term [...]

Kent and Medway ICB £198m Deficit: Financial Crisis, Governance Failures and Hospital Performance Ratings Revealed

February 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

Exclusive analysis reveals severe financial pressures across Kent and Medway’s health system, with deficit support funding withdrawn and emergency measures implemented [...]

Southern Water Bills Rise as Sewage Spills Persist: 50 Years of Warnings on the Kent Coast

February 1, 2026 // 2 Comments

Southern Water customers are being asked to pay more again, and the public justification is that the money will “fix” the system. From April, the average bill is due to [...]

Kent NHS Whistleblowing: Freedom to Speak Up Promises vs Tribunal Reality

January 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

THE NHS will always need whistleblowers. Healthcare is complex, rapidly changing and dangerous; staff are fallible, variably trained and widely spaced; and demands are huge [...]

South East Water Exposed: 14 Bewl Waters Lost to Leaks (2012–2025), Dividends Paid, Outages Mount, Regulators Investigate

January 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” W.H Auden In Kent and Sussex, fresh water – a most precious commodity, is now a kind of [...]

Kent Council Borrowing Exposed: £277.6m PWLB Loans Since May 2023, Interest Rates, Maturity Dates and the 2028 Reorganisation Risk

January 7, 2026 // 1 Comment

Since the local elections in May 2023, Kent’s district councils have taken out £277.605 million of new borrowing from the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) — but the money [...]

Kent Life Expectancy by District and Constituency (2001–2024): Biggest Gaps, Biggest Gains and What It Means for Folkestone & Hythe’s Ageing Population

December 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]

Kent County Council’s Own Population Projections Show an Ageing Crisis That Depends on More Migration and Births – While Its Reform UK Leaders Attack Both

December 11, 2025 // 1 Comment

When the leader of Kent County Council, Cllr Linden Kemkaran – pictured, went on KMTV after Rachel Reeves scrapped the two-child benefit cap, her message was blunt. [...]

Kent’s £78.2m bus funding: where the money comes from — and where it goes next (Stagecoach, Arriva, Luxembourg, Delaware)

December 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent’s buses are in line for £78.2 million of new funding. On paper, it is money to improve routes, cut fares and upgrade vehicles. In practice, a good part of it will be [...]

Kent MPs’ IPSA spending league table 2024–25: who claimed the most and least (total office, staffing, accommodation and travel costs)

December 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent and Medway’s MPs claimed £3,591,044.17 in parliamentary staffing and “business costs” in the 2024–25 financial year (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025), according [...]

Kent & Medway Homelessness by District (2022/23–2024/25): Section 21 Surges, While Thousands of Homes Sit Empty

December 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, every council in Kent and Medway has been feeding detailed case-by-case homelessness data to Whitehall through the national H-CLIC system – the [...]

Mark Quinn: Quinn Estates’ Power, Philanthropy — and the Quinn Investments Accounts Behind Kent’s Biggest Developments

November 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

For most people in east Kent, the name “Mark Quinn” means big housing schemes, glossy CGI images and often fierce planning rows. Less visible is the quiet holding company [...]

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