FHDC Councillor Allowances 2026/27: £128k Rise After Change Fails
When Folkestone & Hythe District Council set its 2024/25 budget, councillor allowances were quietly pulled into the political bargaining. Now, in the 2026/27 budget [...]
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Millions in Borrowing Unexplained as Executive Pay and Councillor Costs Surge at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
A quiet storm is brewing over three core issues at Folkestone & Hythe District Council: conflicting borrowing figures between the council and central government, [...]
“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 [...]
Councillors ward budgets bring JOY to our communities
Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs receive £3,000 of taxpayers money to per year to spend on community projects that help deliver the Council’s strategic objectives. In [...]
More than £9m spent on temporary staff in last eight years
In the last eight financial years, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £9,118,847 on temporary staff, according to their spend data. This is an average spend [...]
Still £47,560 to claim in Cllr Ward Budgets to help Community groups.
Each of your 30 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. Community groups in the district or [...]
Cllrs receive one and a quarter million in allowances and expenses in last four years.
Folkestone & Hythe District Council has thirty councillors. As councilors they receive an allowance – plus expenses. They do not receive a wage. All payments made [...]
Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects
Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]
Part 3 – Damp and Mould – “It’s not lifestyle”.
Like an artist’s afterthought on a brick canvas, the stains make clear there are serious issues with Council owned homes. It can be seen on properties in New Romney, [...]
Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”
“This was totally foreseeable and Hythe Town Cllrs have done nothing to prevent it”, is how one residents sees the recent incursion by Travellers onto the South [...]
Six weeks on where’s the eight years of council procurement card data?
Back in March of this year, Internal Audit in it’s quarterly report (see page 8) made it clear there were twenty four active procurement cards [read credit card] issued [...]
Cllrs need to step up their game understanding council finances.
In the 10 years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been publishing their spend data, £179m or 48% of the spend has been on premises related expenditure, as the [...]
Whistleblower claims allegations of “serious and sustained fraud within the council”
Updated: 25.05.22 @ 15:12 A whistleblower’s allegation of corruption and cronyism inside Folkestone & Hythe District Council are so serious they claim only a [...]
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 [...]
Good News emerges from KCC’s budget after intensive lobbying
Sometimes when residents and organizations lobby KCC Cllrs, they do listen. Such was the case with the recent KCC budget. Members of the Shepway Vox Team and many others, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cllrs claim more allowances in 2020/21 than 2019/20
In the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid hit, when all Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors couldn’t travel to conferences and claim subsistence and other [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Priest Under Pressure
The courts say they must release it. The Information Upper Tier tribunal say they must release it. But still Folkestone & Hythe District Council, led by Dr Susan Priest, [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors Allowances 2019/20
Congratulations to Cllr Gary Fuller (pictured) (Lib Dem) for being the Cllr who claimed the least expenses for the financial year 2019/20. He claimed just £4,878 As always [...]
We counted them all out and We counted them all back
At last night’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, agenda item four was Report C/19/63 Proposed Disposal of Fernfield Lane Hawkinge. Fernfield Lane is owned by FHDC and [...]
Cllrs Under Criminal Investigation By Kent Police for Leaking Commercially Sensitive Information
Exclusive A handful of Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs are under criminal investigation by Kent Police; for leaking the commercially sensitive information about how [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council Offer £25 million to purchase Racecourse from Reuben Brothers
Exclusive Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, [...]
Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?
Could you be persuaded there is a legitimate interest, and it is in the public interest, or any value to the public or any section of the public, for Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Cllr Clive Goddard & Russell Tillson interviewed under caution for Alleged Electoral Violations
Cllr Clive Goddard (Con) (pictured) was first elected to the then Shepway District Council – now Folkestone & Hythe District Council – in 2007. He was elected [...]