Kent Councils’ Out-of-Area Temporary Accommodation: The FOI Numbers
When a council accepts that a household is homeless, it often has to find “temporary accommodation” fast. That can mean anything from a hotel or B&B to a short-term [...]
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Kent Life Expectancy by District and Constituency (2001–2024): Biggest Gaps, Biggest Gains and What It Means for Folkestone & Hythe’s Ageing Population
Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]
Kent & Medway Homelessness by District (2022/23–2024/25): Section 21 Surges, While Thousands of Homes Sit Empty
Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, every council in Kent and Medway has been feeding detailed case-by-case homelessness data to Whitehall through the national H-CLIC system – the [...]
Kent Council Debt 2024–25: Full Borrowing Breakdown for Kent County, Medway and Every District
Across Kent and Medway, council debt has not stood still over the past financial year. Between 31 December 2024 (Q3) and 30 September 2025 (Q2), total borrowing by the 14 [...]
Kent’s Most Deprived Areas: Rankings, Trends, and What Must Change
New government data shows Kent districts have slipped down England’s deprivation league over the past decade — and it has done so against the backdrop of Conservative [...]
Council Tax Bailiffs in Kent: Councils Ranked and What It Means for You
The numbers are rising. After a fall in 2023/24, Kent’s 12 district councils sharply increased the number of Council Tax debts sent to enforcement agents in 2024/25 — [...]
Most Kent Councils Off Track for 2030 Net Zero
Kent’s local councils are under growing scrutiny for how they tackle climate change. Nearly all of them declared a “climate emergency” in 2019, pledging to cut [...]
‘Stop the Boats, Stop the Waste’: How Reform UK Took Control in Kent
Kent, with its chalk cliffs and close proximity to Calais, has become Britain’s symbolic and logistical frontline in the ongoing small boat migration crisis. Since 2018, [...]
Kent councils with the biggest debts
Several Kent councils have significantly increased their debt levels in recent months, raising concerns about the potential impact on local services and the local economy. [...]
“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 [...]
Child Poverty in Kent & Medway rises across most districts over last nine years
The Local Child Poverty Statistics for all councils in Kent & Medway, focus on longer-term trends to understand how poverty has changed in these districts over a period [...]
Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?
The financial exit package data paid to employees leaving any of the Councils in Kent, including Medway, over the last three years, is wrong by more than £6m. Each year in [...]
Kent councils with the biggest debts
New figures reveal which Kent councils have the highest level of debt – and those who aren’t a single penny in the red, as of Q2 2024/25. Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is [...]
No Local Authoritiy in Kent will meet their 2030 Net Zero Targets
No local authority in Kent will meet their Net Zero targets they set for either their Council estate or whole district by 2030. In fact, only two of the thirteen local [...]
Evidence suggests new housing targets numbers set by Labour government for Kent, will not be met.
Updated 09:55 – 15 Dec 2024 Is it a pipe dream? Can this Labour Government either build or start 1.5 million homes before the end of the next parliament in 2029? The [...]
Housing: Kent & Medway Local Authorities have no idea about the number of hazards in the 145,000 private rented homes
Housing professionals who work for local authorities in Kent & Medway do not know how many category one hazards, or what the most common hazards are in Kent & [...]
Council Tax set to rise by £103, with New Romney leading the way.
Once again New Romney, Hawkinge and Folkestone take the medal positions for the highest Council Tax rates across the district, using the band D average. It’s inevitable [...]
Following Harlow would lead to paying less Council Tax for us all in Kent
The average Council tax across all 12 Kent districts is £2,043. What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you [...]
Part 2: Census Population Data – Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
The new census data underlies what statisticians, economists, politicians and most of the population have known for years: that Britain is ageing. The same is true in Kent. [...]
Census Population Data Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
Yesterday 28.06.22, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released the Census data for 2021. This was a snapshot of the UK population and other information recorded by [...]
Part 1 – Kent Donors to local & national Tory party
“A little bit of money goes a very long way.” Political donations have been at the heart of many a scandal, but does it matter that at local and national level, parties [...]
Local mental health trust misses deadline to stop sending people far away from home, data shows
Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership (KMPT) and the Kent & Medway CCG are still sending people more than 180 miles from their home for Mental Health [...]
Long term empty properties rise above 10,000 in Kent & Medway
It’s nothing short of scandalous. More than 10,000 homes in Kent & Medway remained empty and were classified as long term vacant dwellings in 2020. In the previous [...]
Where we could create woodland in Kent
Mapping expert Tim Richards of Terra Sulis and Friends of the Earth have drawn up an “opportunity map” of areas in England that may be suitable for creating more [...]
Flytipping increases 18% after costs introduced by KCC in 2019/20
It’s official! The number of flying tipping incidences between the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 has risen across all twelve councils in Kent (not including [...]