Dr Susan Priest – ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Staff Costs look set to breach the £1 million pound barrier for the second time.

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

It is more likely than not our council, Folkestone & Hythe District Council spending on temporary staff will pass the million pound mark for the financial year 2019/20. [...]

Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet Council Tenants suffered Carbon Monoxide poisoning and hospitalised during failed P & R contract

October 21, 2019 // 9 Comments

Exclusive – Updated 22/10/19 – 08:30am The Shepwayvox Team has acquired a growing body of evidence that tenants living in the 17,000 plus properties owned by the [...]

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 End Of The Beginning For East Kent Housing

October 16, 2019 // 9 Comments

So the beginning ends. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet has agreed in principal to withdraw from East Kent Housing and begin a consultation process with all [...]

Misleading omissions, council properties and drugs

September 7, 2019 // 4 Comments

At 6pm on the 10th June 2019, The East Kent Housing Board convened at Garrity House, Aylesham. Present were the following people :James Queay – Chair, Cllr Trevor [...]

Time to go follow the money

July 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

While the Councils of East Kent publish reports on how rubbish East Kent Housing were at administering the P & R Installation Company Ltd contract, let’s not lose [...]

The lack of seeing differently

May 3, 2019 // 6 Comments

My name is Abigail and my name is Tina for the purposes of this blog post. We are both blind. We are just two of approximately ten thousand people in Kent who are visually [...]

Another significant data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council.

April 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

“I’m busy. I’m in a meeting” were the words of the monitoring officer and Solicitor to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, (FHDC), Amandeep [...]

Gerrymandering in Folkestone & Hythe District Elections?

April 8, 2019 // 4 Comments

EXCLUSIVE It would appear from evidence that is publicly available Gerrymandering could be happening in the Folkestone & Hythe District elections which are to be held on [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council vote to buy Connect 38 Ashford for £17 Million.

March 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

EXCLUSIVE – updated 8.45am Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet and Full Council have voted to purchase Connect 38 (pictured above & below) in Ashford. [...]

Bagging a bargain by undue influence?

March 2, 2019 // 7 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) offered a number of residents of Shorncliffe Crescent (pictured below) the chance to buy small parcels of land at the end of [...]

Princes Parade Hythe: Business Plan comes before Overview & Scrutiny on the 12th Feb

February 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

The Princes Parade Business plan will be heard by the Overview & Scrutiny Committee on Tuesday 12th February and then go onto Cabinet on the 13th February. There have [...]

Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.

December 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]

Defending the public interest

December 23, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Public Interest needs defending. But who does it need defending from? Folkestone & Hythe District Council and Councillor Russell Tillson, that’s who. In the [...]

Lack of Transparency: Kent District Cllrs Allowances & Expenses now published annually.

October 25, 2018 // 1 Comment

All 12 Councils (not including Medway) in Kent, have elected to publish Cllrs allowances and expenses on an annual basis. There has not been a word about this lack of [...]

Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone

June 1, 2018 // 5 Comments

Updated 1st June 12.55 You really couldn’t make it up. Seriously, in March 2018 Folkestone & Hythe District (FHDC) substantially completed the purchase of Ross [...]

He’s back.

May 10, 2018 // 5 Comments

Update: 15/05/18 Folkestone & Hythe District Council have informed our public face by way of Facebook the Following statement: Hi Bryan. Alistair is returning for a [...]

Otterpool Park update.

May 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

We’ll start with some good news. The probable Roman villa discovered on the Otterpool Park site will now become part of the development. In a conversation with Cllr [...]

Record Breakers 2

April 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Temporary Staff Costs at Folkestone & Hythe District Council have broken the million pound barrier for the first time ever. In the financial year 2017/18 they reached, [...]

The Long Read: That motion and a little about financial viability assessments.

April 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

At last Thursday’s (12th April) extraordinary Hythe Town Council meeting at Hythe Town Council, agenda item 4 was to discuss Planning Application Y17/1042/SH – [...]

Record Breaker

April 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council (FHDC) Bed & Breakfast costs for the financial year 17/18 are £1,164,836. When compared to last years financial figures when FHDC [...]

Congratulations Dr Priest.

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Dr Susan Priest has been elected by Shepway District Council as the new Head of Paid Services and the Returning Officer (The Chief Executive). The vote was unanimous. Dr [...]

Alistair’s £184,000 golden goodbye

March 24, 2018 // 6 Comments

So long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye to Mr Alistair Stewart Chief Executive of Shepway District Council, on the 31st March. When Mr Stewart drives of into the sunset [...]

Job losses and efficiency savings at Shepway District Council.

February 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

“…during these difficult times we [the management] will be making every effort possible to ensure that the impact on staff of these cuts is as small as [...]

SDC’s £2.5 million funding failure for Ship Street site – part 3

February 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Shepway District Council’s (SDC) bid to the Marginal Viability Fund (MVF) for circa £2.5 million to “to cover the costs of abnormal works” on the 1.67 [...]

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