Councillors – Page 2 – ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

Cllr Clive Goddard & Russell Tillson interviewed under caution for Alleged Electoral Violations

October 17, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

October 6, 2019 // 7 Comments

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

September 29, 2019 // 2 Comments

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

June 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

June 7, 2019 // 7 Comments

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

June 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

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.

May 19, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

November 25, 2018 // 4 Comments

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

November 21, 2018 // 5 Comments

“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.

October 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

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’

July 24, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

June 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

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.

June 3, 2018 // 2 Comments

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.

May 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

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

May 9, 2018 // 3 Comments

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

April 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

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?

April 16, 2017 // 1 Comment

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.

March 22, 2017 // 3 Comments

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

December 6, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

SDC Cllr Allowances

August 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Below are the allowances received by SDC Councillors for the year April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015. The sum total claimed by ALL councillors was £335,370.37 see SDC Cllr [...]

Criminals in our Council Chamber? You decide.

August 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Shepway District Cllrs are Data Controllers. As a data controller one must by law, be signed up to the ICO Register of Data Controllers. To not sign up is a criminal offence, [...]

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