Part 42: More financial and contract irregularities
Just three days ago, Folkestone & Hythe District Council were celebrating the fact that last year they had begun making the district’s social housing stock more energy [...]
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More financial and contract irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
No matter how many times we write about financial and contract irregularities, Folkestone & Hythe District Council never seem to learn. As you may or many not know, the [...]
Council borrowed £20m in 2022/23, but must repay £35m by 2027/28
Both the Greens & Labour have promised to build more Council homes in their manifesto’s during their campaign. Neither party had sight of the accounts for 2022/23, [...]
Oportunitas update: True & Fair Bulls**t
Updated 28 March @ 11:05am How, how could this happen? How can the directors of Oportunitas be employees of the Council, and be elected Cllrs, when that’s not [...]
Is she, or isn’t she?
“The Section 151 Officer is responsible to the Council for ensuring that appropriate advice is given on all financial matters, for keeping proper financial records and [...]
Council’s accounts: Another hat trick of irregularities
How many times does it take Folkestone & Hythe District Council to produce a draft set of accounts for publication, for the financial year 2021/22? No it’s not a [...]
Council’s accounts “are nothing short of a dog’s breakfast”
“They are nothing short of a dog’s breakfast” says Chris a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), “and [...]
Council’s Chief Finance Officer is leaving the building
Charlotte Spendley the Chief Finance Officer (s151 Officer) at Folkestone & Hythe District Council is leaving the building sometime in the near future. Did she jump, or [...]
Is Sunningdale House Developments Ltd in financial difficulty?
Update Jan 6 @15:12 Update – At 14:00 today, ninety minutes after we published our report, Sunningdale have filed accounts with Companies House. They are not currently [...]
Finally, the Council comply with the law
Better late than never is what they say! Finally, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have complied with the law, two days late, but as we said better late than never. [...]
It’s Magic: £107,000 of Council Procurement Card Data Vanishes
WTF! Folkestone & Hythe District Council have taken down the Procurement Card Data they published on the 8 Nov, 22. Today the 11 Nov, 22, the dangerous data they [...]
Holidays & Hypocrisy
On the 1 August 2022, the public were supposed to have been allowed to inspect Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts, as per s26 of the Local Audit & [...]
Part 2: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts
Following on from Part 1 yesterday, if after inspecting the accounts and asking questions you are concerned about something in the accounts, you may wish to object to the [...]
Part 1: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts
In the days to come the council will open their accounts for inspection to you the residents of the district. As a local resident you have legal rights to inspect, ask [...]
Why are we waiting?
It has been seventeen days since the draft accounts of Folkestone & Hythe District Council were meant to open for the residents of the district to inspect. As of this [...]
Part 2: Are the Council cooking the books?
Recently we asked the question: Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books? We asked this knowing they do not have the process or procedure within their [...]
Council are acting beyond its powers by giving £16m plus to the two companies it owns
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have acted beyond their powers (ultra vires) by allowing in excess of £16 million to be paid to companies in which they allege they [...]
Are Folkestone & Hythe District Council cooking the books?
It’s a first, and not one Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be proud of at all. For the first time in the history of our Council, they have failed to [...]
Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments filleted accounts
Princes Parade situated in Hythe, Kent, is a site of 7.4 hectares (18 acres) on this land, Folkestone & Hythe District Council wish to build a Leisure Centre and 150 [...]
F51 Folkestone – A Tale of Two Narratives
A charitable trust/foundation can be set up by anyone who has decided that they want to contribute some of their assets or income for charitable causes. The trust is governed [...]
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 [...]
What a bunch of Morons
What a bunch of overpaid morons we have at Kent County Council. Under the Local Audit & Accountability Act 2014 (LAAA 2014) any resident of Kent or journalist can [...]
Council restricting access rights of all residents to inspect their accounts.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council , like all other councils must open their annual accounts to allow the public to inspect them. Unfortunately, our Council are not [...]
Council misleading residents about Cllrs allowances and expenses again.
On June the 12th we published the allowances of all Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs for the financial year 2020/21. The Council are omitting the fact, that three Cllrs [...]
The kitchen may be silent but the books are getting cooked
Updated Jan 21 2021 @ 13.05 For an accounting sleight of hand that elevates end-of-year accounts into a Booker Prize contender for fiction, look no further than those filed [...]