Another financial irregularity at the council
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s constitution describes how they operate, makes sure they perform well, and are transparent. The constitution is the [...]
Amandeep Khroud
£658,771 of contract irregularities on just three contracts
‘Fraud‘ says The local government transparency code 2015 (the Code), ‘can thrive where decisions are not open to scrutiny and details of spending, contracts [...]
Whistleblower claims lack of governance and internal controls at FHDC
This is a guest post “I am a senior council officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. I am publicly blowing the whistle to the Shepway Vox Team for reasons [...]
Two QCs say report must be issued over unlawful expenditure of Premier Roofing & Clifford Carpentry and Interior contracts
Following on from our last post, Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council? we sought the legal opinions [...]
Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?
Each year the Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe District Council Audit & Governance Committee (A&GC), must respond to the external auditors letter which asks: [...]
Are Cllrs Monk, Field & the monitoring officer Amandeep Khroud acting with honesty & integrity?
On the 19th Nov 2021, we brought you the post: Cllr David Monk has a new occupation In the post we pointed out that Cllr David Drury Monk was a director in K B Occupational [...]
More financial irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
What is £5,553.96 + £0? The answer according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council is £5,811.96. What is £5,553.96 + £258? The answer is according to Folkestone [...]
Council hiding seven years worth of credit card financial payments.
Seven years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have hidden, and failed to publish financial data for their Government Procurement Cards (read credit card), in clear [...]
Who are you?
Updated 10.04.22 @16:20 Faceless and nameless they are. We don’t know what position they held at Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but we do know that in [...]
Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.
Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]
Tory Cllr Susan Carey lies and spreads misinformation as fact about Council Tax
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 [...]
Cllr David Monk has a new occupation
He’s been a double glazing salesman, a Cllr since 1995; and now he has a new occupation as an Occupational Therapist, since July 2021. Yes, Cllr David Drury Monk, [...]
£40 million Veolia Waste Contract investigation will not be held in public
The Council set up an Overview and Scrutiny Waste contract Task and Finish Group to investigate the Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco, which led to thousands of homes NOT having [...]
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors breach data protection law again
We’ll not beat about the bush and come straight to the point. Since the Waste Collection contract fiasco, many of you have contacted us regarding your Cllrs and their [...]
Dr Susan Priest Chief Exec of FHDC fails to land top KCC job
Dr Susan Priest became Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council as of April 1st 2018, beating the s151 officer Tim Madden to the job. She later [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco
It’s a £40 million pound fiasco. For the second time in less than six weeks Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been forced to apologise for the poor service [...]
The local developer being helped along by the public purse
Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]
And yes, they get paid well to respond badly to information requests
Updated: 27/04/21 – @ 10:16 Make ’em laugh, Make ’em laugh. Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh? (Ha ha!). We and our public face – who is [...]
Council had no Contaminated Land Register for 28 years meaning buyers of property couldn’t know if their land was contaminated.
On the 1st Nov 1990 the then Tory Government led by Margaret Thatcher brought in the Environmental Protection Act 1990. This piece of legislation made it clear that every [...]
Shepway Green Party Cllrs under active investigation for breaking the law
Updated 20/01/21 @09:55 Historic England have began an investigation into elected Shepway Green Party Cllrs Jim Martin, Lesley Whybrow, and Georgina Treloar, who sit on [...]
Another Lie by Cllr David Drury Monk?
Why does Council leader David Monk (pictured) lie to his fellow councillors and the residents of the district either by design or accident? Here’s a very recent example: [...]
The charmed lives of Cllr Ray Field & Cllr Clive Goddard
Have Cllr Ray Field (Ind – Harbour Ward) and Cllr Clive Goddard (Con – Wallend & Denge Marsh) broken the Council’s Code of Conduct by knowingly or [...]
Is Cllr Clive Goddard committing a criminal offence?
It is simple, so so simple yet he has failed to comply. A discosable pecuniary interest (DPI) is set out in Chapter 7 of the Localism Act 2011 and in the secondary [...]
The Long Read: Planning excites passion.
Planning has always been the hottest of all local government topics. It’s the one most likely to stir the passions of local people and yet no sooner have those passions [...]