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Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]
Affinity Water: Executive Pay, Leaks, Outages and Emissions — What the Company’s Own Accounts Reveal (2018–2025)
Affinity Water has had a turbulent seven years. Executive pay and shareholder rewards have at times raced ahead of progress on leaks and service, and its environmental record [...]
Kent & Medway Homelessness by District (2022/23–2024/25): Section 21 Surges, While Thousands of Homes Sit Empty
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, every council in Kent and Medway has been feeding detailed case-by-case homelessness data to Whitehall through the national H-CLIC system – the [...]
Kent Council Debt 2024–25: Full Borrowing Breakdown for Kent County, Medway and Every District
Across Kent and Medway, council debt has not stood still over the past financial year. Between 31 December 2024 (Q3) and 30 September 2025 (Q2), total borrowing by the 14 [...]
Kent’s Most Deprived Areas: Rankings, Trends, and What Must Change
New government data shows Kent districts have slipped down England’s deprivation league over the past decade — and it has done so against the backdrop of Conservative [...]
Council Tax Bailiffs in Kent: Councils Ranked and What It Means for You
The numbers are rising. After a fall in 2023/24, Kent’s 12 district councils sharply increased the number of Council Tax debts sent to enforcement agents in 2024/25 — [...]
Most Kent Councils Off Track for 2030 Net Zero
Kent’s local councils are under growing scrutiny for how they tackle climate change. Nearly all of them declared a “climate emergency” in 2019, pledging to cut [...]
Kent councils with the biggest debts
Several Kent councils have significantly increased their debt levels in recent months, raising concerns about the potential impact on local services and the local economy. [...]
“Schrödinger’s Councils, Heisenberg’s Chaos: Kent’s Quantum Local Government Restructure Dooms (or Saves?) All”
In a nutshell, Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is about how the powers and funding that sit with local government are organised between councils. Think of it like [...]
Child Poverty in Kent & Medway rises across most districts over last nine years
The Local Child Poverty Statistics for all councils in Kent & Medway, focus on longer-term trends to understand how poverty has changed in these districts over a period [...]
Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?
The financial exit package data paid to employees leaving any of the Councils in Kent, including Medway, over the last three years, is wrong by more than £6m. Each year in [...]
Kent councils with the biggest debts
New figures reveal which Kent councils have the highest level of debt – and those who aren’t a single penny in the red, as of Q2 2024/25. Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is [...]
No Local Authoritiy in Kent will meet their 2030 Net Zero Targets
No local authority in Kent will meet their Net Zero targets they set for either their Council estate or whole district by 2030. In fact, only two of the thirteen local [...]
Evidence suggests new housing targets numbers set by Labour government for Kent, will not be met.
Updated 09:55 – 15 Dec 2024 Is it a pipe dream? Can this Labour Government either build or start 1.5 million homes before the end of the next parliament in 2029? The [...]
Housing: Kent & Medway Local Authorities have no idea about the number of hazards in the 145,000 private rented homes
Housing professionals who work for local authorities in Kent & Medway do not know how many category one hazards, or what the most common hazards are in Kent & [...]
Acting Chair of East Kent Hospital – Stewart Baird – knew of fraud at Trust earlier this year
Earlier this year the East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust Non Executive Director for People and Culture and the Vice Chair – Stewart Baird (pictured) said [...]
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 [...]
Council in advanced negotiations to sell Connect 38, but was purchase lawful?
Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking to sell Connect 38 – Ashford; which they bought for £16.8m, on the 14 May 2019. However, no evidence exists of a [...]
Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”
“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]
Cost of Living Crisis – Yet more locals to become migrants due to being priced out of the local rental market.
A Bureau of Investigative Journalism analysis of 648 rental properties across eight districts of Kent shows 99% of those advertised over a single month (July 2022) were [...]
Following Harlow would lead to paying less Council Tax for us all in Kent
The average Council tax across all 12 Kent districts is £2,043. What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you [...]
Part 2: Census Population Data – Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
The new census data underlies what statisticians, economists, politicians and most of the population have known for years: that Britain is ageing. The same is true in Kent. [...]
Census Population Data Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
Yesterday 28.06.22, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released the Census data for 2021. This was a snapshot of the UK population and other information recorded by [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Update: No new Canterbury Waste Water Treatment plant until 2030.
In a stark admission made by Simon Thomas head of Canterbury City Council’s planning department, in relation to the Stodmarsh Nutrient Neutrality issue; has said: The [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent
It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]