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The Long Read: – Our local housing crisis & a potential solution.

April 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

Housing and access to housing are probably the single biggest issues in the district. It is also a national issue as well we know. The Cabinet Member responsible for Housing [...]

Our continuing GP Crisis.

April 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

According to NHS Digital data The New Surgery, Canterbury Road Folkestone has taken on more patients than any other Surgery in the Folkestone & Hythe District. In April [...]

Fit for purpose? You decide.

March 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

Eight Cllrs involved in the Little Densole Farm Judicial Review who voted irrationally and caused Shepway District Council having to pay £22,750 in costs for the Judicial [...]

Good for one’s wellbeing? You can ponder that.

February 26, 2018 // 3 Comments

Updated Midday 26/02/18 Running alongside Shepway District Council’s Draft Places & Policies Local Plan Feb 2018 (PPLP), according to SDC’s payment to [...]

David v Goliath: mass irrational behaviour by Cllrs in council chamber – final part

February 18, 2018 // 3 Comments

Tim Steer (pictured) “applied for judicial review of the decision by Shepway District Council (SDC) on 18 May 2017 to grant planning permission to the Interested [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.

February 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park Update.

January 28, 2018 // 3 Comments

Shepway District Council in report C-17-76 – Delivering Otterpool Park – make it clear at Para 1.3 that there is now a 3rd major party interested in securing [...]

David v Goliath. A Judicial Review.

January 24, 2018 // 4 Comments

On Thursday the 25th January at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, at The Queen’s Bench Planning Division, an application for a judicial review will be heard [...]

Something is rotten in the district of Shepway – Part 3

January 23, 2018 // 3 Comments

Updated: 18 Feb 2018 – see end of post for update Cllr Peter Gane (pictured) spoke against it, local resident Mr Gordon Banks spoke against it and Shepway District [...]

Shepway District Council to consider selling Folkestone Indoor Bowls Site.

January 19, 2018 // 9 Comments

Shepway District Council (SDC) are considering selling off Folkestone Indoor Bowls Centre on Cheriton Road Folkestone. It is understood that two offers to purchase the site [...]

Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay.

October 22, 2017 // 3 Comments

Before we begin our trip down Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay,, we want to explain briefly and broadly what a “Tax haven” is. So we have best left that to [...]

Something Is Rotten In The District Of Shepway. Part 2

October 10, 2017 // 4 Comments

On the 30th Oct 2015, we brought you the post “Something Is Rotten In the Borough Of Shepway” which was about the purchase of the property – 15 Grace Hill, [...]

A Judicial Review of Planning Application Y16/0623/SH

October 1, 2017 // 3 Comments

It begins where a lot of planning applications begin, that is with the pre-application advice one can receive from Shepway District Council; The pre-application advice for [...]

Y16/0866/SH No New Second Homes For DFL’s.

May 31, 2017 // 2 Comments

To a packed public gallery, Y16/0866/SH – Redlynch House, 19 Hillcrest Road Hythe, was refused planning permission to knock down the current house and replace it with a [...]

19 Castle Hill Avenue Part 2

May 24, 2017 // 1 Comment

A little over a year ago, the Shepwayvox Team brought you a story about 19 Castle Hill Avenue, (pictured) we informed you that Shepway District Council (SDC) had invested [...]

Voting Tory In the KCC Elections, Will Harm Your Children.

April 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Since 2013, child deprivation has increased year on year across all wards in Shepway. Once housing costs are taken into account, nearly one in three children live in [...]

Cllr “Dodgy David” Monk & A Planning Application. You Decide.

March 29, 2017 // 9 Comments

On Febuary 28th 2017 at the civic centre Cllrs met to vote on planning issues. One of the planning applications to be decided upon that evening was Y16/0623/SH: Little [...]

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