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Affinity Water: Executive Pay, Leaks, Outages and Emissions — What the Company’s Own Accounts Reveal (2018–2025)

December 4, 2025 // 0 Comments

Affinity Water has had a turbulent seven years. Executive pay and shareholder rewards have at times raced ahead of progress on leaks and service, and its environmental record [...]

Hythe Imperial Hotel, GSE Group and the Healey–Bowles Empire: Inside Kent’s Construction, Property and Truckstop Network. A Shepway Vox Investigation

November 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

When you walk along Hythe seafront, the Hythe Imperial Hotel & Spa looms over the promenade – a refurbished Victorian pile now marketed as a luxury coastal retreat. [...]

Folkestone & Hythe War Memorials & Roll of Honour: Remembering All Who Fell on Land, Sea and Air

November 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s roll of honour stretches from village greens to the cliff-top memorials that face France. On The Leas, the Folkestone War Memorial carries around [...]

Ameet Kotecha, Panama Papers and Hythe Care Home: Explained

October 29, 2025 // 1 Comment

Boutique Care Homes is building a 66-bed care home on Hythe’s former Smiths Medical site, with the scheme regularly showcased as a local regeneration success. Coverage this [...]

Hythe Tops UK Wood Burner Pollution Charts: Green Party Accused of Environmental Hypocrisy

July 31, 2025 // 4 Comments

A recent investigation by the ShepwayVox team has revealed that Hythe—one of the Green Party’s strongholds in Folkestone & Hythe District—has the highest [...]

And Now for Something Completely Different

July 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

It isn’t every day that a local council receives a planning application for a new burial ground, but that’s precisely the innovative step Gentle Endings Ltd is taking [...]

Council Leader Jim Martin Knew of £21M Princes Parade Offer, Leaked Email Reveals

June 30, 2025 // 5 Comments

At a full meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council on 26 February 2025, Cllr Jenny Hollingsbee (Con) asked Council Leader Cllr Jim Martin (Green) whether he was [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council Fails to Spend £11.88 Million on Promised Projects

June 29, 2025 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has left £11.88 million of budgeted capital spending unspent over the past two financial years. This money was earmarked for [...]

Eight Years of FOI Failure: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Under Fire for Data Scandals

June 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

At Folkestone & Hythe District Council, transparency has become something of a myth. Between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2025, the council failed to meet its own Key [...]

A Dog’s Breakfast of Data: Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s FOI Figures Go Walkies

June 28, 2025 // 1 Comment

Dog mess is one of the most frequent and fragrant grievances in local government. In Folkestone & Hythe, it’s been cited hundreds of times in complaints, council [...]

Councillor’s “Nutjob” Remark Sparks Legal Warning Over Equality Law Compliance

June 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

This blog assesses the Folkestone & Hythe District Council (“the Council”) Equality and Diversity Policy 2025–29 against UK equality law, focusing on the Equality [...]

Serious Discrepancies Found in Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Temporary Accommodation Costs

May 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council is facing serious questions over the reliability and consistency of its published data on Temporary Accommodation (TA) costs, after a [...]

Green Hypocrisy: Hythe Tops Charts for Wood Burner Pollution

April 18, 2025 // 3 Comments

New analysis from University College London has laid bare a sharp hypocrisy at the heart of Folkestone & Hythe District: Hythe, the political stronghold of the Shepway [...]

Celebrate a Local Volunteer — Nominations Open in Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Marsh Until 11 May

April 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

Volunteering is one of the quiet forces that sustains life in Britain — and nowhere is that more evident than in Folkestone, Hythe & Romney Marsh. From supporting [...]

Council Progress Report: Folca, Coast Drive Beach Huts, Waste Water Works, and Road of Remembrance Make Strides

March 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

At the Full Council meeting of Folkestone & Hythe District Council on 2 April 2025, Cabinet Members will update Cllrs on progress made since the 26 Feb. The progress [...]

Hythe Gets 26 New Affordable Homes—But Council’s Housing Budget Runs Thin

March 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

Twenty-six new affordable, energy-efficient homes are set to transform Hythe’s Boundary Road (site below in orange, as the council advances its pledge to address housing [...]

Outcome: Kingston Homes’ Hythe Plan: Luxury Builds, Zero Affordable Housing

March 19, 2025 // 1 Comment

Chairman Jackie Meade (with the patience of a saint): “Alright folks, let’s dive into Application 21/0553/FH – Land oppiste 24 Station Road Hythe CT21 5PW – [...]

Princes Parade: A Financial Dunkirk Of His Own Making!

March 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

The air in the Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s chamber was thick—thicker than the Channel’s infamous fog, a suffocating mix of bureaucratic inertia, impending [...]

Kingston Homes’ Hythe Plan: Luxury Builds, Zero Affordable Housing

March 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Planning Committee, (18 March 2025) Gather ’round, for we have a mystery on our hands—a mystery so baffling, so ludicrous, that even [...]

Land or Property purchased for a million or more in Folkestone & Hythe District

January 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

More than eighty pieces of land and property have sold for more than a million pounds in the Folkestone & Hythe district, between 2013 – 2024, according to land [...]

Otterpool Park: Prior to 400th home, sewage must be removed by tanker or package treatment works

November 30, 2024 // 7 Comments

Updated 30 Dec 2024 @16:30 No plan survives its first contact with reality is a common refrain due to price fluctuations, inflation, interest rates or unforeseen regulatory [...]

Another financial loss for 50 year old Hythe Swimming Pool

November 28, 2024 // 2 Comments

Next year, Hythe Swimming Pool (HSP) will be fifty years old. At present it is the only community pool open to the public in the district, as the pool at Folkestone Sports [...]

“I’ve seen the future and it is murder”

September 11, 2024 // 3 Comments

Last night the Labour Party voted to cut the winter fuel payment. One of the those Labour members to do so, was Folkestone & Hythe MP Tony Vaughan (pictured) As matters [...]

Rubbish Council proposes reduction of litter bins and street cleaning in Folkestone & Hythe

December 5, 2023 // 3 Comments

After a rapid U turn on putting parking charges on the high streets of Folkestone, Hythe & New Romney, the council is now proposing reducing the number of litter bins [...]

Council propose parking charges in Folkestone, Hythe & New Romney high streets to plug £18.5m deficit

November 7, 2023 // 5 Comments

And due to the Tory profligacy under former leader David Monk, the new Green led administration are proposing motorists pay nearly £400,000 per year, for parking in the town [...]

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