What a waste! In the last two years there have not been many opportunities for opposition members to land any significant blows on the Tory led coalition at Folkestone & [...]
According to a member of the public and the Cabinet Member for the Environment, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green), Folkestone & Hythe District Council have allegedly sprayed [...]
On the 22nd March 2021, the external auditor of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s accounts – Grant Thornton – sent a letter to the Chair of the [...]
Between them they have lost the public purse tens of thousands of pounds and failed to keep the publication scheme up to date. The publication scheme aims to make the maximum [...]
In 2015, Tom Goldsmith set up a petition on Change.org which gained 407 signatures. The title of the petition was: Say No to the development on the Hawkinge officers Mess and [...]
Following our Long Read last month detailing a ‘turning circle’ installed by Hythe Lawn Tennis Club without planning permission, Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
We must plant more woodland as we have but a fig leaf left. Trees need to be looked after: you don’t just plant them, you grow them. And we need to plant and grow 4 [...]
One of the things which has come out of the pandemic is how important nature is to us all. Our green spaces have provided us with places to relax and enjoy nature at close [...]
Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]
Doris Stainer (pictured), wife of Michael Stainer, is facing arrest after failing to return to the UK from Germany, according to the latest report in Court News UK. Her [...]
Over the last six years, one developer more than any other has come to epitomise the cosyiness that leads many to think/believe our planning system and committee is fixed in [...]
Michael and Doris Stainer (pictured below) have been charged with failing to pay income tax and national insurance contributions amounting to over £400,000 under two [...]
They give the impression of being in office but not in power. Both of them sit on Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s cabinet; and both receive allowances in [...]
Almost twenty years after our Council introduced a Cabinet system in the year 2000, – Cllr Tim Prater on the 25th Sept 2019, put forward the following motion for the [...]
On 1 October 2010, one hundred and sixteen separate pieces of legislation were pulled together into one single Act, the Equality Act and passed into law. The Act provides a [...]
Air pollution does NOT discriminate. We all need to breathe. Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Air Quality Report 2020 states: Air pollution is associated [...]
Updated: 17/04/21 @08:42 On the 20th October 2019, Kentonline Folkestone section declared that Folkestone & Hythe District Council had bought the former Gasworks site at [...]
More people in Folkestone & Hythe District reported feeling lonely, always or often, during the pandemic, than any where else in Kent, according to data released by the [...]
On the 24th March Folkestone & Hythe District Council placed an advert for another contract for Princes Parade. The expression of interest for this contract ends today [...]
We the Shepway Vox Team get it wrong sometimes. When we do we like to be open about our mistakes, and if necessary apologise. This is one of those ocassions where we need to [...]
This is a GUEST post For the last four decades I have walked my dogs along the firing ranges between the Grand Redoubt and Fisherman’s beach, or the beach at Dymchurch. [...]
Throughout the pandemic second homeowners across our district have been able to claim approx £3.5 million in covid grants designed to help small businesses weather the [...]
Who says we don’t make a difference? Within days of our article “Covid-19 Grant Fraud at the Grand as Council demands its money back” , Folkestone and Hythe Council [...]
So, who has really been in charge at the Grand since Michael Stainer ‘stepped down’ after his November 2018 bankruptcy? For a brief period, until he was unceremoniously [...]
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