Wood Burning Stoves: Deadly not trendy
Graphic: Breathe Clean Air Less than a year ago (March 2018) a blanket of clean white snow lay heavy across the district, the county and the country and there was little or [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Cllr David Monk: Do as I say, not as I do.
The Shepwayvox Team have been contacted by a number of readers about an incident which took place aboard the High Speed train on Valentine’s day involving the leader of [...]
Otterpool Park to come before planning by end of February
Cllr David Monk (pictured) at this evening’s full council – 20th Feb 2019 – announced that an outline planning application for 8,500 homes to be constructed [...]
How to win friends and influence people
Numpties, numpties, numpties they are all numpties Since the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) were introduced on May 25th 2018, eight and half months ago, the vast [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District: Where has the £10 million New Homes Bonus Scheme money gone?
The New Homes Bonus Scheme (NHB) introduced by the Coalition Government provides cash for areas that allow new homes to be built in their area (a form of bribery?). [...]
Folkestone: A step too far?
Love or loathe it, the Arch in Folkestone at the town end of the Leas has caused controversy from the moment it was born. For those of you who do not remember the arch [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £1.25 million, a £90 grand contract and registering a right of way.
We revealed in our last Otterpool Park post two days ago, the overall amount of money for the Otterpool Park development will be circa £2.8 billion. It’s nice to [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Financial and health cost revealed
We can reveal today Otterpool Park expenditure and revenue will be in the region of £2.8bn with the Council reputedly making circa £800 million by selling approx 15 [...]
Cllr Roger Wilkins cast doubt over Romney Marsh nuclear dump
According to Cllr Roger Wilkins at a meeting of Dymchurch Parish Council on Monday 4th February, he stated that the Romney Marsh Partnership and and Dungeness Site [...]
Hythe Town Green (Kent) Village Green application to be heard 27 February
At the end of January 2019 we told you about the upcoming Hythe Village Green application to be heard at the Pavillion on South Rd at the end of Feb 2019. We can now tell [...]
Princes Parade Hythe: Business Plan comes before Overview & Scrutiny on the 12th Feb
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 [...]
Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) have released Susan Acott’s , the Chief Executive’s diary. It is not as open as Cllr Paul [...]
Romney Marsh nuclear dump plans alive since Sept 2017
Back in Sept 2018 we told you that Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) were actively considering a Geological Disposal Facility. Now Kentonline Romney Marsh [...]
It’s Business as “Normal” at the Grand ….
Depends of course on what you call normal! And one can only feel sorry for those public officials, the Insolvency Practitioners, charged with making sense of the complex web [...]
Official Diaries: Kent CC says yes, Folkestone & Hythe DC says no
In the scheme of things, who would you say was the more important elected official? Cllr Paul Carter, leader of Kent County Council or Cllr David Monk leader of Folkestone [...]
The Grand: “The Merry Go round stops”
With those words, Michael Stainer knew that his final appeal against personal bankruptcy was doomed. Appearing before Chief Bankruptcy Registrar Briggs in the High Court on [...]
F&HDC Overview & Scrutiny Committee want to hear from you
It is the Lion which has never roared nor is it ever likely to. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee has made a call out to you the [...]
Happy New Year to you all.
First we must congratulate Cllr Rory Cassian Love for his award of an OBE. He was first elected in 1987 and stood in the Folkestone Harvey Ward. He came third in the vote [...]
Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.
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, [...]
History of Pensand House & Marlborough Court
It begins back in 1987, the year Rick Astley’s – Never Gonna Give You Up remained at No 1 for five weeks. On the 29th May 1987 a charge for a mortgage was raised from [...]
Defending the public interest
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 [...]
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council lose more than £130,000 in unpaid HGV PCNs
Folkestone & Hythe District Council have failed to collect £130,643 in unpaid Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) for HGVs parked unlawfully across the district in the last [...]
A Grand History
Between April 1981 and September 1981 the residents of the Grand made six written requests for a summary of costs for service charges to Michael Stainer (pictured circa [...]
Fixing a hole and saving a million
Folkestone Library is falling into disrepair and the holes need to be fixed to stop the rain from getting in. On Thursday 4th May 2017 David Monk was elected as a Kent County [...]