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Tory Cllr Susan Carey lies and spreads misinformation as fact about Council Tax

February 24, 2022 // 4 Comments

Ever since we, The Shepway Vox TEAM, first informed you that residents of Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest council tax in Kent since 2004/05, many [...]

Interest payments on Council debt costs to rise by 88% in 2022/23.

February 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, like all other Council’s can only borrow against future revenue streams, as legislation prohibits borrowing against capital [...]

Overview & Scrutiny can ‘follow the council pound’ to discover where the £88 million in borrowing will come from.

February 18, 2022 // 2 Comments

The Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC) has long been the lion which never roared. The OSC can go on site visits, conduct public surveys, hold public [...]

Council Tax set to rise by £60, with New Romney leading the way.

February 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

New Romney, Hawkinge and Folkestone are set to have the three highest Council Tax rates across the district, using the band D average. It’s inevitable that Council Tax [...]

KCCs shocking failures in data protection and continued overcharging of clients receiving adult social care

February 12, 2022 // 2 Comments

Since Kent County Council employees have been working from home, there has been an sharp increase in the number of data breaches occurring. But it doesn’t stop there. [...]

Good News emerges from KCC’s budget after intensive lobbying

February 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sometimes when residents and organizations lobby KCC Cllrs, they do listen. Such was the case with the recent KCC budget. Members of the Shepway Vox Team and many others, [...]

Council Tax rises to add to cost of living misery for Kent residents

February 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Two down, three to go. It’s that time of the year Parish Councils, District Council’s the County Council, Kent Police and Kent Fire & Rescue Service (KFRS), [...]

Council needs to borrow £88 million to push forward projects, but fail to explain from where the money will come

February 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

According to data released by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities [DLHC] the amount of borrowing by Folkestone & Hythe District Council had been [...]

KCC Draft Budget to decimate Homeless & Disabled Services

February 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

KCC’s draft budget to be discussed and voted on this coming Thursday, 10 Feb, is proposing £37.9m of savings [read cuts]. £10 million of these proposed savings, or [...]

Kent County Council Draft Budget – it ain’t good news

February 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

On Thursday Feb 10, 2022, Kent County Council [KCC] will be setting it’s budget. But before we begin, we wish to draw your attention to a matter which needs raising. [...]

£250,000 of Green Cash to be given away by the Council to help the environment

February 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet is being asked to agree approval to establish a £250,000 fund to provide grants to support local businesses to improve their [...]

Child protection referrals for domestic abuse in Kent fell between 2018/19 – 2020/21

February 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

The trend for the number of child protection referrals by Kent Police, to Kent County Council Social Services, actually fell between 2018/19 – 2020/21, according to [...]

Otterpool Park Update: The Reuben Brothers Mystery and our Public Rights of Way

February 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Wherever you travel in Sellindge [Kent] you find land earmarked for development, being developed, or land banking by one of these four companies. Cozumel Estates Gladman [...]

Another Council Data Breach reveals £164,500 is owed in unpaid PCNs

January 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

Updated 01/02/22 @ 16:25 In yet another data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, we now know that 127 people owe £164,498 for 1,667 unpaid Parking Charge [...]

Proposed 132 Homes for High Knocke, Dymchurch, backed by offshore money.

January 30, 2022 // 4 Comments

An outline planning application [21/2525/FH] for a residential development of 132 dwellings, at High Knocke, Dymchurch, is currently under consultation. The application has [...]

Flytipping increases 29% between 2019/20 and 2020/21 in The Garden of England

January 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fly-tipping is defined as the “illegal deposit of any waste on to land that does not have a licence to accept it”. Once again, the number of reported flytipping [...]

For six years the Council have been committing a criminal offence at Otterpool

January 26, 2022 // 4 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have since taking ownership of the land on the west side of Otterpool Lane, Sellindge (Lots 1, 2 & 3 below), been committing a [...]

Have the Council found a Magic Money Tree for their five development projects?

January 24, 2022 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council five development projects, are all subject to rising inflation, higher borrowing costs, and supply chain issues, which means costs [...]

Kent MPs make highest ever expenses claims during Covid – 2020/21

January 20, 2022 // 2 Comments

In 2020/21 all 17 Kent MPs between them billed for expenses such as office costs, staffing, accommodation, and travel, just over £3 million pounds. This does not include [...]

Princes Parade: Stopping Up Order Documents released by Planning Inspector & Secretary of State

January 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

So the campaign to prevent the stopping up order of the road which will run behind the land at Princes Parade, led by KCC Cllrs Rory Love OBE and Andy Weatherhead was [...]

Council recommend Freedom Leisure to run controversial Princes Parade Leisure Centre

January 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Updated @18:43 19/01/22 The Council have announced who their preferred operator could be for the Leisure Centre which might be built on Princes Parade. Report Number:C/21/75, [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Site had visit from No 10’s Cabinet Secretary

January 11, 2022 // 2 Comments

There have been further developments at Otterpool Park where the council wish to build up to 10,000 homes at a cost of £2.9bn, making a conservative profit of £193m. [...]

Council’s housing target failure gives hope for environment before the progress of concrete continues

December 8, 2021 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council [previously Shepway] has failed to meet its annual housing requirement target for ten of the past fourteen years. This a 71% failure [...]

The planning loophole used so frequently by Sir Roger’s companies looks set to be closed

December 5, 2021 // 2 Comments

Gareth Bacon MP for Orpington, sought leave to bring in a Bill to make unauthorised development without planning permission an offence; to prohibit retrospective planning [...]

Whistleblowers claim up to 25% of KCC Social Workers are alcoholics.

December 3, 2021 // 10 Comments

This is a guest post We are three senior social workers who work for Kent County Council. We have in excess of fifty years experience within our profession. We have come to [...]

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