Council “actively considering” purchasing Aldi Site, Hythe.
EXCLUSIVE: The Shepwayvox Team can confirm that Folkestone & Hythe District Council are “actively considering” purchasing the Aldi site in Hythe. A variety of [...]
Leisure Centre on Aldi’s Hythe Site?
It’s worth considering, well at least giving some thought to, we believe. Aldi’s in the centre of Hythe is up for sale. Aldi’s purchased the land for £1.5 [...]
A Grand Failure and a Grand Fantasist
How many businesses should fail under one person’s management before that person is disbarred from running another one? We were asked this by a local resident last week. [...]
Geological Disposal Facility Update.
Romney Marsh Partnership is a quango. It was set up in 2012 to lead the delivery of the Romney Marsh Socio-Economic Plan. As an unelected quango with no mandate it has [...]
Controlled Parking Zones
This is a Guest Post – the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the Shepwayvox Team There’s no doubt that parking can be a problem in [...]
The Horn Street Stench.
On March 24th 2015 Shepwayvox was born. It was said in the very first post, by the solitary member and writer at that time who is now, our public face, somewhere down the [...]
Otterpool Park Update
The Planning application timetable for Otterpool Park according to confidential documents make it clear that the promoters Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) and [...]
A distinct lack of substance in the local Tory Party.
Dire Straits is what it is, financial dire straits to be precise. In a meeting of the local executive of Folkestone & Hythe Conservative Association on Friday 28th Sept [...]
What a load of rubbish
There are many reasons why you might wish to hire a van; moving home, shifting large furniture from A to B, perhaps even to clear out a load of cumbersome toot that has been [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council have signed two option to purchase land agreements with Sellindge farmers & Price Brothers signed option with Cozumel Estates.
EXCLUSIVE: Updated 17:30 Sat 29th Sept The Shepwayvox Team can reveal that Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have signed two option to purchase agreements [...]
Roman’s Assets: enter the lawyers
“Let’s kill all the lawyers.” William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 We have received a letter from DAC Beachcroft Chelsea [...]
Roman Assets: Pensand House & Malborough Court, Hythe and 3 & 4 Dalby Square Margate
EXCLUSIVE During the Yeltsin Presidency (1991 – 1999) of the Russian Federation, privatization of the state led to a lot of people become very wealthy. This was the [...]
Second bite of the cherry: Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe
Redlynch House, Hillcrest Rd, Hythe sits majestically on the higher slope which over looks Hythe. It has sweeping and valuable views out across Hythe bay and any [...]
“Full investigation” into money laundering concerns around Pensand House & Malborough Court
Nationwide Building Society will begin a “prompt and full investigation” into concerns raised with them regarding money laundering around the initial deposit and [...]
Part 2: Ownership of Pensand House & Malborough Court
The Russian Federation claim in a legal case there was money laundering, embezzlement and fraud. This is supported by evidence in a well researched book; whose two authors [...]
Sandgate Parish Council: Caught between a rock and hard place.
Caught between a rock and hard place is never a nice place to be, but that is where Sandgate Parish Council (SPC) find themselves. Do they keep the half a million they have [...]
That Geological Disposal Facility and a forgotten workshop.
It’s strange, very strange. At the beginning of September 2018 we brought you the blog post about Folkestone & Hythe District Council who “looking to the [...]
The Long Read: To divest or not to divest, that is the question
Amazon, Facebook, Taylor Wimpey, BAE Systems, Royal Dutch Shell and Rio Tinto are just some of the companies the £6 billion pound Kent Pension Fund (KPF), administered by [...]
The dead and Hythe Bowling Club
How is it possible dead people, four dead people at that, to remain on a title deed lodged at the Land Registry? It is not the first time we have discovered dead people still [...]
Queens House, Folkestone another offshore property
Queens House (pictured below) Folkestone is another property in our glorious district owned offshore. The owners, who we’ll come onto shortly, wish to turn the upper [...]
Smiths Medical – Boundary Rd Hythe
So the Smiths Medical Site, Boundary Rd Hythe; which many of you may know as Portex, sold for £2.1 million on the 15th August 2018 to Rewd Limited, according to the land [...]
Fraud? We’ll leave you decide that.
When information that our Council holds must be published freely, charging for it could be considered fraud. The Local Government Transparency Code 2015 makes it clear at [...]
The Long Read: Ownership of Pensand House & Malborough Court Hythe, a little clearer.
It’s complicated, but then it always is when you are looking at opaque offshore structures. The tenants in Pensand House (pictured below after revamp) & Malborough [...]
For the Others from Elsewhere
In the Folkestone and Hythe District Council Core Strategy Review 2018 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18), policy SS2 (page 58) makes clear that between 2018/19 to [...]
Princes Parade is NOT a done deal
Cambridge educated Cllr Russell Tillson, (pictured below) who is a Cllr on Dymchurch Parish Council, St Mary’s Bay Parish Council, a town Councillor on New Romney Town [...]