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No, Linden Kemkaran – Kent’s £1.5bn Budget Isn’t Your Shopping List

May 11, 2025 // 1 Comment

On Sunday morning, newly appointed Kent County Council leader Cllr Linden Kemkaran (pictured) of Reform UK sat on the BBC Politics South East sofa and declared she would [...]

Linden Kemkaran: Journalist, Dramatist, Lawbreaker — Now Leader of Kent County Council

May 9, 2025 // 3 Comments

Kent County Council has a new political face at the helm — and she brings with her a résumé as compelling as it is controversial. Linden Kemkaran, a former BBC journalist [...]

Folkestone Sports Centre Saved by Philanthropic Donation by Sir Roger De Haan

May 8, 2025 // 2 Comments

Funds donated by Sir Roger De Haan (pictured), the well known philanthropist has passed on money to The Sports Trust to save the much loved Folkestone Sports Centre, how much [...]

Folkestone’s £19.8m Gamble on Regeneration: Levelling Up or Covering Up?

May 6, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s: A Brighter Future Levelling Up bid, submitted in August 2022, didn’t just seek investment—it issued a damning verdict on [...]

Folkestone £15.4m Town Centre Contract Sparks Transparency Concerns Over Tender Timeline

May 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is pushing ahead with a £19.8 million government-funded regeneration programme intended to revitalise key areas of the town centre. [...]

Discrepancies Found in Kent Election Data Under Dr. Priest’s Oversight

May 3, 2025 // 1 Comment

In the Kent County Council election held 1 May 2025, official results published on the council’s Democracy portal reveal minor inconsistencies in the vote tallies for six [...]

Error or Oversight? Shepwayvox Name Appears in Otterpool Park Files, Raising Eyebrows

May 1, 2025 // 2 Comments

Shepwayvox questions “mistaken” inclusion in Otterpool Park files, raising broader doubts about accuracy. Shepway Vox, a local community blog, has raised concerns [...]

Time’s Up: 20 Questions to Reclaim Kent’s Future

April 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

Kent faces a moment of reckoning. After years of Tory financial mismanagement, spiralling care costs, and broken promises on infrastructure, residents across Folkestone & [...]

Truth on Hold: Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s FOI Responses Don’t Add Up

April 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

In an age where public trust in institutions is increasingly fragile, accuracy and transparency are more important than ever—especially when it comes to how councils manage [...]

Otterpool Park: “on the cusp of moving into much welcomed delivery”

April 26, 2025 // 3 Comments

“Otterpool Park has been in gestation for a very long time, but we are now on the cusp of moving into much welcomed delivery” ~ Dr Susan Priest, 22 April 2025, [...]

Council appoint consultant to market Ship Street site, to find suitable development partner

April 24, 2025 // 0 Comments

A flagship plan to transform Folkestone’s long-derelict Ship Street gasworks into new housing is under intense scrutiny amid mounting costs and protracted delays. An [...]

Policy vs Precedent: Is Folkestone & Hythe’s Equality Framework Fit for Purpose

April 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

Recently, the Equality Act returned to national headlines after a landmark Supreme Court judgment confirmed—definitively—that “sex” in UK law means biological sex. [...]

Green Hypocrisy: Hythe Tops Charts for Wood Burner Pollution

April 18, 2025 // 3 Comments

New analysis from University College London has laid bare a sharp hypocrisy at the heart of Folkestone & Hythe District: Hythe, the political stronghold of the Shepway [...]

Promises, Delays and Silence: Inside the Greatstone Beach Huts Controversy

April 16, 2025 // 1 Comment

A regeneration project conceived in 2021 as a flagship investment in Romney Marsh has descended into controversy, delays, and community backlash, as Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Let it Be Remembered: Princes Parade Was Saved by Everyone—Through Resistance, Circumstance and Collective Action

April 14, 2025 // 0 Comments

Let it be remembered: Princes Parade was saved not by any one person, but by everyone who cared enough to fight for it. The long campaign to stop the development of Princes [...]

Council to Spend £560,000 on Obsolete System Fix – But Where’s the Oversight?

April 13, 2025 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is poised to spend more than half a million pounds on a long-overdue replacement for its internal finance and asset management [...]

Celebrate a Local Volunteer — Nominations Open in Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Marsh Until 11 May

April 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

Volunteering is one of the quiet forces that sustains life in Britain — and nowhere is that more evident than in Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Marsh. From supporting [...]

“Numbers Have Never Been My Big Thing”: Admits Reform Candidate standing in KCC Election

April 10, 2025 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council (KCC), responsible for a staggering £1.5 billion net revenue budget that funds critical services from education to social care, faces intensified [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Retain Cabinet System Pending Final Ratification

April 9, 2025 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has received ministerial consent to retain its existing Leader and Cabinet governance structure—reversing a previously agreed plan [...]

Kent County Council Signed Contracts Worth Hundreds of Millions Without Public Checks

April 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

This article is currently under review following receipt of a formal response from Kent County Council (KCC). We are in the process of carefully considering the information [...]

Unclaimed and Overlooked: The Human Cost of Early Death and Isolation in Coastal Kent

April 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

In a comparative analysis of East Kent’s coastal districts — Canterbury, Dover (1) (2), Folkestone and Thanet— a quiet but vital civic task plays out behind closed [...]

Broken Budgets, Big Promises: Will Kent’s May Candidates Fix the Financial Freefall?

April 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s finances are collapsing under the weight of rising care costs, crumbling infrastructure, and vanishing reserves. The Budget-Book-2024/25 and February [...]

Where Is the Contract? Scrutiny Intensifies as ‘Folkestone: A Brighter Future’ Regeneration Scheme Set to Begin Without Public Record

April 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

With just days to go before diggers are due to break ground on the £20m flagship Folkestone: A Brighter Future regeneration scheme, serious questions are mounting over the [...]

Investigation: 49 FHDC Contracts Worth £28.6m Breached Procurement Rules — Standstill Period Abandoned, Oversight Missing

April 3, 2025 // 2 Comments

EXCLUSIVE — A Shepway Vox Team investigation has uncovered that Folkestone & Hythe District Council failed to apply the mandatory 10-day standstill period before [...]

Bin There, Dumped That: Folkestone’s Five-Year Fly-Tipping Stats Are a Rubbish Read

March 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

If a black bag is dumped in a wood in the Folkestone & Hythe district and no one logs it on a spreadsheet, did it really happen? That depends on whether the council [...]

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