Folkestone & Hythe District Council
It’s impossible to spend any stretch of time outside at the moment without noticing two things: the rain and the seemingly unstinting rise in rough sleepers across our [...]
Santa Monk’s £125 million Xmas Present
Cllr David Drury Monk (Con), or rather Santa Monk as he was christened by Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), has promised to build a further 900 Council homes on top of the the [...]
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 [...]
Otterpool Park update: Council spends £5.1 million on property in 2019
At the annual MIPIM property conference in Cannes in March of this year, the Department for International Trade (DIT) revealed the investment opportunity – Otterpool [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Significant Errors & Non Compliance with GDPR
Recently Folkestone & Hythe District Council compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) was audited by the East Kent Audit Partnership (EKAP) and [...]
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 [...]
Ross House: A Tissue of Lies
Pursuant to section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 and the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, Ross House was not fire compliant when Folkestone & Hythe [...]
The Grand Escape — or Stainer’s Surrender?
What links the two pictures below? In a word “debt” On the left is a picture of the Marshalsea, immortalised in Dickens’s “Little Dorrit”. It housed a variety of [...]
Ross House: Ollie comes good and EKH have 13 Job Vacancies to fill
Thank you. Thank you to Oliver Gordon Davis (pictured), the developer who refurbed Ross House and sold it to Folkestone & Hythe District Council for £1.8 million. Oliver [...]
Council’s Charity want half a million for 120 Beach Huts angers tenants
The lease for the Folkestone beach huts was made between the Council and Peter Kemp in 1997, when the Lib Dems ruled the universe known as Shepway District, now Folkestone [...]
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 [...]
Part 1: Plausible Suspicion of Wrongdoing
A growing number of sources within all four Councils who own East Kent Housing have informed us that all four Chief Executives of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & [...]
Crusade Building Services Ltd
Crusade Building Services Ltd was one of the companies who worked on the conversion of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone for Ollie Davis. Crusade is owned by Daniel Knight [...]
Otterpool Park Update. Council need £100 million to deliver project
Report Number C/19/23 which goes before Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet on the 20th Nov 2019, makes the case that cabinet should recommend to Council that [...]
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 [...]
A Very Short Planning History of Ross House, Folkestone
The application Y17/0004/PA was for a change of use of Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone CT20 3UJ into 16 flats (4 – 1 Beds and 12 – 2 Beds). The application [...]
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 [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Ten Cllrs Champion High Quality Outcomes for Reuben Brothers & Council
Ten district Cllrs from all parties met behind closed doors at the inaugural Otterpool Park Working Group (OPWG), on the 7th Oct 2019. They were there to discuss how they [...]
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, [...]
Sorry We Haven’t A Clue
Folkestone & Hythe District Council don’t have a clue as they “don’t hold the information“. They haven’t a clue about how much waste they [...]
Are 16 Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors abusing their position?
Could you be persuaded there is a legitimate interest, and it is in the public interest, or any value to the public or any section of the public, for Folkestone & Hythe [...]
History repeats itself, repeats itself repeats itself, History repeats…
“In ten or twenty years time I see Folkestone as everything everyone wants it to be with a lot more young people, a lot more housing and a lot more industry.” [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council Temporary Staff Costs look set to breach the £1 million pound barrier for the second time.
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
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 [...]