Local Government Reorganisation

Kent Council Debt: Borrowing Reaches £2.45bn as Medway Overtakes KCC Ahead of Local Government Reorganisation

August 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

New Government figures show nine of Kent’s 14 councils borrowing more than two years ago. With four new unitary councils due in 2028, those liabilities aren’t simply [...]

Kent Local Government Reorganisation: Four Unitary Councils, Debt and Costs — Long Read

July 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent knows where the new boundaries will run. It still doesn’t know who’ll inherit the mortgage. Steve Reed MP Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local [...]

Kent Local Government Reorganisation: Four Unitary Councils and One Almighty Hangover

July 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

What follows isn’t a leaked meeting or a quotation from any named council officer. It’s an imagined pub conversation translating Kent’s local government shake-up into [...]

Kent County Council Sits on £126m Developer Contributions as Schools and Roads Wait

May 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s latest available data shows more than £126m in developer contributions received or invoiced but not yet spent. Reform didn’t create the pile. But [...]

Lib Dems And Greens Break Martello Lakes Pool Promise

May 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Liberal Democrats said they’d “immediately start work” on a swimming pool at Martello Lakes. The Greens said the Conservatives could have built one there by now. [...]

Folkestone & Hythe ‘Stretches the Mortgage’ on £192m Debt: MRP Savings Now, Higher Bills Later

February 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) is proposing a change that makes its finances look dramatically healthier on paper — not by paying down debt, but by changing [...]

Why Benefit Fraud Makes Headlines — and Council Insider Fraud Rarely Does

January 1, 2026 // 0 Comments

A familiar story did the rounds in the run-up to Christmas: a benefits claimant exposed by covert video, prosecuted, and written up in a way that leaves little doubt about [...]

Why Folkestone & Hythe Backed the East Kent Unitary ‘Option 3A’ – Democracy, Devolution and the District’s Future Explained

November 20, 2025 // 0 Comments

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde Folkestone & Hythe District Council has formally backed the [...]

One Council or Five? Kent & Medway’s Local Government Overhaul

November 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is a plan to overhaul how councils are structured and run in Kent and Medway. In plain terms, it would replace the current two-tier [...]

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