Record Breakers: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Break Two Records in One Day
It’s getting to be a habit with Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking records. – 1; – 2; – 3 For the seventeenth (17th) year in a row, [...]
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Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 21 (22/05/20)
NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 22nd May but were registered up to 30th May in England and Wales. They are [...]
East Kent Housing “run on servers and software which are NOT compliant with the most basic data safety standards”
“As I understand it East Kent Housing (EKH) is being run from an unsupported two versions owned, obsolete version of Northgate software which is hosted on servers which [...]
Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 20 (15/05/20)
NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 15th May but were registered up to 23rd May in England and Wales. They are [...]
Coronavirus Kent In Five Graphs (Week 19)
The latest published figures from the Office of National Statistics for deaths by local authority and cause of death up to 8th May but were registered up to 16th May all show [...]
Coronavirus Kent In Five Graphs
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics compiled weekly and as such likely to be more accurate of what is truly happening in the county were released today. [...]
How many of the 25,000 companies in Kent, eligible for covid grants, will survive the crisis?
Within in twelve local authority districts in Kent, 25,377 businesses have been identified by the councils as within the scope to receive either the Small Business Grants [...]
Councils in dispute with gas contractor while setting a date to transfer East Kent Housing services to councils
On the 13th December 2019, the four chief execs of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet Councils became the directors of East Kent Housing. The Shepwayvox [...]
Kent Covid -19 deaths compared to non-covid-19 deaths in Kent & England and Wales
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) published their most up to date data yesterday for all deaths due to Covid-19; and all other deaths across all local authorities in [...]
Child Poverty in Kent, Has Risen For Fifth Year In A Row
With the world concentrating it’s attention on the Covid-19 pandemic other issues are, understandably, passing unnoticed. One of these issues is the continuing growth in [...]
Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million
Seven local authorities in Kent have sold more than 1,300 council homes under right to buy (RTB) and made in excess of a £120 million, according to the latest figures [...]
More than 5,300 empty homes in Kent and they’re worth an estimated £1.9bn
The number of empty homes across Kent has risen for the third consecutive year to more than 5,300, the highest level since 2012, according to official figures. The number of [...]
Karma Comes Around For Mark Anderson?
Before he joined East Kent Housing (EKH), Mark Anderson (pictured) former Director of Property, had according to his Linkedin page, seventeen jobs between 1985 and June 2016. [...]
Animal Carcasses, Clinical Waste & Green Waste Amongst the 3.3% Fly Tipping Increase in Kent.
More rubbish than ever is being dumped illegally across Kent. Figures published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reveal there has been [...]
COUNCILS TAKE DECISIVE ACTION TO DISMISS EAST KENT HOUSING BOARD
The Four Councils who own East Kent Housing, Dover Canterbury, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet have today (12/12/19) dismissed the East Kent Housing Board and taken direct [...]
Part 2: East Kent Councils overcharged £1.5 million by Gas Contractor P & R.
£1,479,000 worth of overcharging by P & R, the contractor who was responsible for the Gas Servicing & Maintenance contract for all four East Kent Council, managed by [...]
The End for Mr Anderson of East Kent Housing
EXCLUSIVE Good journalism they say changes things. It has come to pass that the Director of Property Services at East Kent Housing, Mr Mark Anderson (pictured) has lost his [...]
P & R lose £27 million contract due to overcharging.
EXCLUSIVE The Shepwayvox Team can exclusively reveal that P & R Installation Company Limited five year £27 million pound gas maintenance and installations contract with [...]
Rough sleeping rises in nearly all Kent districts
Rough sleeping rose in nine out of twelve districts in Kent (not Medway) last year according to official figures released by the Ministry for Housing Communities & Local [...]
P & R could lose £6.3 million pound contract with Folkestone & Hythe District Council?
Exclusive Back in May, then in June and October of this year we made it clear there were issues with the P & R Gas Servicing & Heating Installation contract. In an [...]
Betrayed by East Kent Housing
Arthur is 86. He has served in our armed forces and has been betrayed by one of his ward Cllrs, by Cllr Alan Ewart- James Cabinet member for Housing (pictured below left), by [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2017/18
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Are They Worth £9.2 Million?
In Kent – including Medway, there were 715 elected representatives who received expenses and allowances in the financial year 2016/17. Kent has 559 elected [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2016/17
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,597,410 for the financial year 2016/17. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.) This year, [...]