Finance

Otterpool Park Update: A brief history of the political parties stance on the development

May 10, 2023 // 13 Comments

It is funny how political parties are prepared to do spectacular u-turns. This is true of all parties at national and local level. Regarding the Otterpool Park [...]

Council borrowed £20m in 2022/23, but must repay £35m by 2027/28

May 6, 2023 // 8 Comments

Both the Greens & Labour have promised to build more Council homes in their manifesto’s during their campaign. Neither party had sight of the accounts for 2022/23, [...]

Is this the end game for Sunningdale House who want to buy Princes Parade?

April 27, 2023 // 3 Comments

David Richard Pownceby (pictured), the owner of Sunningdale House Developments Limited, the company who has offered Folkestone & Hythe District Council, somewhere in the [...]

£61m of contracts across eight Kent councils started before they were awarded

April 26, 2023 // 1 Comment

An analysis of eight out of twelve Kent Council’s shows that £61,317,807 worth of contracts were started before they were awarded, according to publicly available [...]

Solutions to protect your public pound.

April 9, 2023 // 7 Comments

£71,422 does not appear on either of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s published purchase order data, or its payment to supplier data, for just one contractor. [...]

Princes Parade: Financial mismanagement of Faithful & Gould contract

February 28, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 6 March @ 07:40am According to the Council’s procurement guide under Value for Money it states: Value for money is a balance of quality, price and delivery and [...]

Incompetence: Power without accountablity

February 8, 2023 // 1 Comment

Purchase Orders (POs) are either the prevention of all evil, or the creation of all evil in local government, and elsewhere. At Folkestone & Hythe District Council, they [...]

Interim Chief Finance Officer likely to cost minimum of £104,000

February 3, 2023 // 1 Comment

According to Cllr Jackie Meade‘s quick back of the fag packet calculation, at the Personnel Committee on the 2 Feb, an interim s151 officer was £100,000. A s151 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council: Audit Reports Expose Contract Rule Failures and Demand a Compliance Reset

December 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

They are, without doubt, three remarkable women: capable professionals with a clear, shared intent to get Folkestone & Hythe District Council back to basics on [...]

Council failing to publish the notice explaining why the audited accounts for 2021/22 have not been published

December 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council are in breach of the law again, but neither of the two statutory officers, Charlotte Spendley -s151 officer, responsible for the money [...]

Holidays & Hypocrisy

October 4, 2022 // 2 Comments

On the 1 August 2022, the public were supposed to have been allowed to inspect Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts, as per s26 of the Local Audit & [...]

More Financial Irregularities at the Council

October 1, 2022 // 3 Comments

It took two hours and four minutes before Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) Cabinet Member for the Environment pointed out that the s151 Officer, – Charlotte Spendley [...]

Otterpool Park Update: We Name Developers for Phase One

September 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

Exclusive Updated: 26/09/22 @16:43 Back in July when the sun was warm, skies were clear and talk of a drought was sweeping its way across the nation’s media, we [...]

Part 2: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts

September 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Following on from Part 1 yesterday, if after inspecting the accounts and asking questions you are concerned about something in the accounts, you may wish to object to the [...]

Part 1: Your Rights to Inspect the Council’s Accounts

September 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

In the days to come the council will open their accounts for inspection to you the residents of the district. As a local resident you have legal rights to inspect, ask [...]

Council reluctant to place reports about financial and contract irregularities into the public domain.

September 22, 2022 // 5 Comments

Updated 26/10/22 @19:30 Sometimes, just sometimes, we do feel for Cllrs who try their best, but find themselves unsupported by other Cllrs who sit on the same committee. [...]

All four suspended officers have now left the Council

September 15, 2022 // 3 Comments

Updated 15/09/22 @21:37 So it has come to pass, after two and half months since we published the fact that four Folkestone & Hythe District Council officers; who were [...]

Kent County Council loaned £20m to authority now under investigation due to ‘exceptional’ debt

September 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

During the financial year 1 Apr 2021 & 31 Mar 2022, Kent County Council (KCC) lent £20m to Thurrock Council which is now under investigation due to its “exceptional [...]

Council whistleblower vindicated over contract irregularities

September 7, 2022 // 3 Comments

In a guest post back in June 2022, a Council Officer whistleblower claimed there was a lack of governance and internal controls within Folkestone & Hythe District [...]

And yet more contract irregularities at our Council

August 24, 2022 // 2 Comments

And yet again it happens. Three further contracts have been let which are in clear breach of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Contract Standing Orders (CSOs). [...]

Another financial irregularity at the council

June 19, 2022 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s constitution describes how they operate, makes sure they perform well, and are transparent. The constitution is the [...]

Council hiding seven years worth of credit card financial payments.

May 19, 2022 // 4 Comments

Seven years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have hidden, and failed to publish financial data for their Government Procurement Cards (read credit card), in clear [...]

Council accidentally release Covid Grant data

September 17, 2021 // 4 Comments

Curiosity killed the cat – Anon Honestly you would have thought they’d learnt by now, but no. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have committed another faux [...]

Council misleading residents about Cllrs allowances and expenses again.

June 27, 2021 // 1 Comment

On June the 12th we published the allowances of all Folkestone & Hythe District Cllrs for the financial year 2020/21. The Council are omitting the fact, that three Cllrs [...]

Cllrs claim more allowances in 2020/21 than 2019/20

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

In the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid hit, when all Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors couldn’t travel to conferences and claim subsistence and other [...]

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