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, [...]
Councillors
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 £26.2 million to purchase Racecourse from Reuben Brothers
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have received a valuation of between £22 – 36 million pounds for the land owned by the Reuben Brothers company, Cozumel Estates [...]
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 [...]
The Hypocrisy & Stupidity of our Elected Councillors
They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk our Cllrs. In the May elections all of the opposition parties Green, Lib Dem and Labour campaigned on a platform of [...]
Otterpool Park update
The Otterpool Park land assembly continues at pace. This time it is Cozumel Estates Ltd BVI the Council’s co-developer partner who have been in the market to purchase [...]
KCC trough feeding Cllrs receive £2 million in Allowances & Expenses
The trough feeders at Kent County Council all 81 elected Councillors have cost the Kent ratepayer nearly £2 million pounds in allowances & expenses for 2018/19. Below [...]
Part 2: Racism against Travellers and Gypsies is still permissible – even in Folkestone & Hythe District
a YouGov/Traveller Movement survey, released in Oct 2017, found that more than 40% of British parents polled would be unhappy with a close relative forming a relationship [...]
Cllrs Allowances & Expenses 2015/16 – 2018/19 in three graphs
Once again we have crunched the data on our Cllrs allowances & expenses and reproduced the data in three graphs which show what they have received in 2018/19, what they [...]
Part 1: Can we do it? Yes we can.
The term ‘Gyspy/Traveller’ does not constitute a homogenous category, but encapsulates a plethora of differing histories, beliefs and cultures. According to the latest [...]
The Long Read: Horn Street Stench, Part 2
Since we brought you Part 1 of The Horn Street Stench in early October 2018, more details about raw sewage backing up in toilets and baths and [...]
Part 2: Betrayed by East Kent Housing
“All’s well that ends well.” ― William Shakespeare, After our post about Arthur on Monday, his life is in the process of being transformed. He was [...]
The Horn Street Stench.
On March 24th 2015 Shepwayvox was born. It was said in the very first post, by the solitary member and writer at that time who is now, our public face, somewhere down the [...]
Councillors fail to take GDPR Compliance training putting ‘residents at risk’
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors wear three hats when it comes to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, these are: As a [...]
Councillors Expenses 2017/18
So we have crunched the data on Cllrs Expenses and for the fourth year in a row they are wrong. – Expenses include – subsistence (food drink) Travel, eg train, [...]
Incompetence? You decide.
The beancounters at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have outdone themselves this year. Yet again Councillors allowances and expenses now show three different figures [...]
Investigation into Cllrs Expenses & Allowances underway.
One week ago today we brought you the blog post about Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cllrs Expenses & Allowances for the financial year 2017/18. In the post we [...]
Your councillors allowances & expenses Apr 17 – Mar 18
Once again for the third time in four years there are anomalies in our Cllrs allowances & expenses. The people who are responsible for ensuring Folkestone & Hythe [...]
Silver Spring site – Y18/0066/SH
Some things are not what they always appear to be. If you scratch the surface you’ll see a whole lot more, such is the case with the former Silver Spring site, Park [...]
KCC’s Gifts & Hospitality Policy Corruption Charter?
In 2013 the well respected anti-corruption charity Transparency International produced a report called Corruption in UK Local Government: The Mounting Risks. The report [...]
Shepway District Council Councillors Expenses & Allowances, April 1st 2012 – Dec 31st 2016.
We have followed on from the theme of all KCC Cllrs expenses & allowances with all Shepway District Council Cllrs expenses and allowances claims for April 1st 2012 [...]
Councillors – rights of access to information
Our Councillors have the right to access information held by the Shepway District Council (SDC). The powers that enable them are S.100F LGA 1972 and the Local Authorities [...]