Nearly One in Four Council Meetings held behind closed doors
Since the local elections of May 2019, which ushered in 13 Tory Cllrs, 6 Labour Cllrs (one later became an Independent) 6 Green Cllrs and 2 Lib Dem Cllrs, 2 UKIP Cllrs [...]
Folkestone & Hythe Lib Dems propose new location for playground, but fail to explain costs of remediation.
The Folkestone & Hythe Liberal Democrats are now proposing the disused railyway line (pictured); which runs from Warren Rd, Folkestone (alongside Tram Rd) to Rocksalt as [...]
Biggins Wood receives £1.15 Grant funding but questions remain
Dr Susan Priest said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was “contaminated“. Andy Jarrett said the land at Biggins Wood – Cheriton was [...]
Part 1 Don’t FCUK with Ailish Erskine
Don’t fcuk with Ailish Erskine or Mrs Jane Clark (Owner of Saltwood Castle). Both of these women have been bent but never broken, which has only served to make them [...]
Problems abound for Meritum domiciliary care company
Since we last last wrote about overcharging by a domiciliary care company – Meritum Intergrated Care LLP, there have been some further developments which customers [...]
Garden Waste rebate set at a tenner and you won’t see a penny of it
The council rebate to all subscribers of the garden waste service will be £9.70, according to a report being sent to Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Cabinet [...]
Let The Children Play
Public playgrounds are an iconic symbol of childhood. The first playgrounds were a German invention built to teach children how to play. 1859 saw the first British playground [...]
Development still not connected to sewage system nine years after being informed by Southern Water there was not enough capacity.
A Shepway Vox Team Investigation has discovered that as of today 05/10/21, according to Southern Water, the development known as Shoreline (Where the land meets the Sea) or [...]
Evil Spectre leader set to scupper UK Space Agency launch pad site for Jock’s Pitch, East Cliff, Folkestone.
A Shepway Vox Team investigation has uncovered plans to turn the area known locally as Jock’s Pitch on the East Cliff of Folkestone; which has tennis courts, a bowls [...]
Leo Griggs seeking to make £1.5 million on sale of part of Royal Victoria Hospital site
Leo Griggs purchased the Royal Victoria Hospital site via his company RVH Folkestone Ltd from KCC for £1.25 million on 1st Nov 2018. Just three years on he now wants to sell [...]
Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy
“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]
Community Infrastructure Levy miscalculated by Folkestone & Hythe District Council leaving Town & Parish Councils out of pocket
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have, according to Report AuG/21/12 released to the Audit & Governance Committee, miscalculated the Community Infrastructure Levy [...]
99% of claimants for Council Tax Reduction are exceedingly honest.
A Shepway Vox Team investigation has discovered that 10,203 people have had their claims for Council Tax reduction processed by an algorithm and not informed by Folkestone [...]
Is Cllr David Wimble a Liar? – You decide.
What the FCUK does it take to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s monitoring officer – Amandeep Khroud- to take any action against a Cllr for not [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update
On April 19th 2021, a letter was sent by five councils to Robert Jenrick MP, then Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing Communities & Local Government & [...]
How to shoot yourself in the foot.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FoIA), is a simple piece of legislation. Pretty much anybody can make a request for information to a public authority under the FoIA [...]
Council accidentally release Covid Grant data
Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]
Council buy Ship Street Site for £400,000
Finally, Folkestone & Hythe District Council are the owners of the Ship Street site in Folkestone, where they want to build up to 85 homes. The invoice makes it clear the [...]
Kent County Council’s LED streetlights decimating moth numbers
“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a study has found. The study is the [...]
KCC aware of overcharging for Adult Social Care in January 2021
Back in June 2021, we ran a post titled: Part 1: Overpayment of millions by KCC domiciliary service users due to call clipping ancedotal evidence suggests In July the Kent [...]
Veolia Fiasco: What a Waste.
No they didn’t see it. Yes they should have seen it, but it was for some inexplicable reason withheld from them. How do the Councillors who sit on the Task & Finish [...]
The children who no-one knows what to do with
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.” Dave Pelzer, A Child Called “It” In 2019 Children in [...]
Part 2 – Kent Donors to local and national Labour Party
When it comes to the motives of donors there is a presumption of guilt. Base motives will be assumed by most, if not all. However, that said we happen to believe that [...]
Part 1 – Kent Donors to local & national Tory party
“A little bit of money goes a very long way.” Political donations have been at the heart of many a scandal, but does it matter that at local and national level, parties [...]
My name is still Graham, I am still a gamer.
This is a guest post Back in Dec, I wrote a guest piece about my hobby. Guess what it is. Go on, guess. Anyway, I’m told that some people not only read it, but liked [...]