Council Tax Set to Rise By £74 On Band D Property
Tomorrow (19/02/20), Folkestone & Hythe District Council will set its Council tax rate for 2020/21. It will come as no surprise to many of you that Council tax will rise. [...]
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Locked Out – Housing benefit freeze is making and keeping people homeless
Families on housing benefit are priced out of almost all homes to rent in districts across Kent, according to new research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in [...]
242 Homeless Households Moved Out Of Our Communities In Thirty Months.
More than 240 households have been sent away from the Folkestone & Hythe District and placed into temporary accommodation elsewhere in the last thirty months, as there [...]
East Kent Housing: Major failings and historic mismanagement rewarded with £110,000 a year
Appendix 3: Audit report for East Kent Housing (EKH) – tenant health and safety is a restricted document, as such it will not be available for the public to see, nor EKH [...]
The Long Read: Is £10 an hour too much to ask?
On the 24th July the full council resolved and approved the following amended Labour motion put by Cllr Connor McConville (pictured), Leader of the Labour Group at district [...]
Cllr David Wimble committing fraud?
According to the vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cllr David Wimble, Cabinet Member for the District Economy (pictured) who represents [...]
Cllr David Wimble Council Tax Arrears
Exclusive The Shepwayvox Team can exclusively reveal that Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) Cabinet Member for the District Economy, responsible for Economic development, [...]
Local Elections May 2nd – Use your vote wisely
Tory led Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax in Kent for the last sixteen years. This means we pay more for our services than anyone else [...]
How much do you love our district?
Rates (read Council Tax) and rats, health and housing, parks and public toilets are all controlled by Folkestone & Hythe District Council. In addition to these areas the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council: Council Tax rates and Japanese owned bailiffs.
Council Tax Bills are currently being sent out to every household in the district by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, liable for Council Tax. Your Council Tax is made [...]
Folkestone & Hythe DC: Highest council tax rates in Kent since 2004/05
Since 2004/05 Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest Council tax rates (page 4 Table 2 or see chart below) in the whole of Kent. That’s sixteen [...]
Court costs and debt creation.
If you fail to pay your Council Tax – for whatever reason – within the permitted time, Folkestone & Hythe District Council will send you a reminder. If you [...]
Price tag
Between 50 and 60 jobs will be axed at Shepway District Council. The redundancy forecast costs are £2.3 million according to SDC’s, Future Operating Model [...]
Money, Money, Money
I work all night I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay, ain’t it sad And still there never seems to be, a single penny left for me, that’s too bad; so say [...]
Rough Sleepers, B & B Costs and that lie by Cllr David Monk.
So it’s a record Shepway District Council should not be proud of. The number of rough sleepers has hit their highest levels ever in the district. This was announced at [...]
Damian Collins MP Expenses 2016/17
Since May 2010 – to March 31st 2017, Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe has cost the public purse £1,144,586 according to IPSA. The average amount he has [...]
The Grand Inferno
Forgive the classical allusion but Dante might be the name that will be taking up a lot of Michael Stainer’s time over the coming months. But he won’t be studying [...]
Business Rates & Council Tax Issues In Shepway
When the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust (RDHCT) and the Creative Foundation (CF) have problems paying their Council Tax, then you know something is wrong (it was [...]
Sort It Out.
UPDATE: The Car has now been MOT’d, but still no tax showing according to DVLA Ex Conservative Shepway District Councillor David Wimble (pictured), editor and sole [...]
Council Tax Is A System of Debt Creation
This is a guest post by Alan Murdie, LL.B, Barrister, editor, CPAG Council Tax Handbook Director, Council Tax Legal Services and Chairman of Nucleus Legal Advice [...]
Damian Collins MP& His Council Tax
It is that time of year when your Parish, Town, District and County Council’s turn their minds to setting the Council Tax amount we will pay for 17/18. Council Tax debt [...]