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. [...]
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More Issues With Landlord Gas Safety Records
It’s been just under four months since Gas Call Services took over the gas heating and hot water repairs and maintenance and once again issues with Landlord Gas Safety [...]
Closet Tory Betrays Princes Parade
Updated: 11:10am 20/02/20 Last night at full Council another opportunity to stop Princes Parade presented itself. Cllr Tim Prater’s amendment (see video below) [...]
Hythe Anxiety
As can be seen in Private Eye Magazine, Page 16, Rotten Boroughs, Issue No 1515 7th Feb – 20 Feb 2020 We’d like to say thank you to the person/s who sent this to [...]
“We’re Making It Up As We Go Along”
In the last few days, the four Chief Exec’s of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe & Thanet Councils have been meeting with East Kent Housing staff. The four [...]
EKH Chief Exec Deborah Upton Has Stepped Down
Updated: 16:40 East Kent Housing’s Chief Executive Deborah Upton (pictured) has stepped down from her role following a string of failures by the organisation. The action [...]
The Long Read: The Blame Game
In two reports, the HQN Report (not yet seen by Cllrs) commissioned by East Kent Housing (EKH); and the Pennington Report commissioned by the four Councils, evidence of EKH [...]
The Long Read: Penny Wise And Pound Foolish
The Pennington Report – a report into the failings of East Kent Housing and the four Councils of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet – makes it [...]
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 [...]
Rewarding Failure with a Ten Grand Pay Rise.
Deborah Josephine Upton (pictured), Chief Executive of East Kent Housing (EKH) was awarded a nine thousand six hundred and eighteen (£9,618) pound pay rise in 2018/19. Since [...]
Part 2: Plausible suspicion of wrongdoing
Folkestone & Hythe District Council on Wednesday 20th Nov are to vote on the recommendation that additional capital funding of one hundred million pounds (£100,000,000 [...]
Oliver Gordon Davis, the man who sold Ross House to FHDC for £1.8 million.
The man who sold Ross House to the Council for £1.8 million goes by two names on Companies House website: Oliver Davis Oliver Gordon Davis Oliver (pictured) likes to be [...]
Ross House Is A “Tinderbox” and All Tenants Must Be Moved Immediately
All tenants living in Ross House should be moved out immediately as it is a “tinderbox”, according to a number of sources across mutliple organisations. This is [...]
Ross House not fire compliant since purchase for £1.8 million in April 2018
Updated: 08:21 5th Nov 2019 In Feb 2018, two months prior to purchasing Ross House, Folkestone, East Kent Audit Partnership slammed fire safety at East Kent Housing managed [...]
Conversion of Ross House “was total shit” and “sub standard” yet Council paid £1.8 million
Updated 4th Nov 10:35 Cllr Tim Prater has made candid public statements about the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way into 16 flats, owned by the Council since April 2018, [...]
The End Of The Beginning For East Kent Housing
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 [...]
Will Buying Cheap mean Buying Twice?
Updated 08:30am 15/10/19 It’s not just Cllr Stuart Peall (Con) (pictured) Cabinet Member for Enforcement, Regulatory Services, Waste & Building control, at [...]
EKH rocked by safety issues looks set for closure after two of its owner councils voted to take housing stock back in-house
After more than a year of investigating by the Shepwayvox Team, East Kent Housing looks like it may have run its course after eight years of existence. On Wednesday 9th Oct [...]
One fifth of Council Housing stock not fit for purpose
On the 5th June, 2017 a report to the East Kent Housing (EKH) board (page 99) made it explicitly clear that “the level of non-decent homes currently stood at around [...]
For your eyes only: Appendix 3 Audit report for East Kent Housing (EKH) – tenant health and safety
Exclusive: The Shepwayvox Team can now publish the damning report which was restricted from the public and East Kent Housing Tenants. Over the next few days we will be coming [...]
East Kent Housing: Major failings and historic mismanagement rewarded with £110,000 a year
Appendix 3: Audit report for East Kent Housing (EKH) – tenant health and safety is a restricted document, as such it will not be available for the public to see, nor EKH [...]
Coming Soon: Proposals for more money for Otterpool Park acquisitions, proposals to purchase Ship Street Gasworks and an EKH tenant consultation.
Coming soon to the council chamber – 16th Oct – are proposals and recommendations to be put to Cabinet. These proposals are to allow further spending on land [...]
Misleading omissions, council properties and drugs
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 [...]
New gas safety & maintenance contractor selected but should Deborah Upton continue to lead East Kent Housing?
The Governance Manager of East Kent Housing witnessed an East Kent Housing tenant address Deborah Upton, the Chief Executive of East Kent Housing (pictured), about a forged [...]
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 [...]