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Folkestone & Hythe District Council grant Planning Permission for Princes Parade

July 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Yesterday evening we received the follow news from the Treasurer and Membership Secretary of the Save Princes Parade Group. “Regrettably I have to inform you that today [...]

Cllr David Wimble committing fraud?

July 18, 2019 // 1 Comment

According to the vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cllr David Wimble, Cabinet Member for the District Economy (pictured) who represents [...]

Serious disrepair and safety issues in Folkestone & Hythe District Council housing stock

July 17, 2019 // 6 Comments

“I feel trapped.” “Nobody is listening to me – that’s what it feels like.” “My mental health is going downhill rapidly due to this,” are just some of [...]

Paramount Independent Property Services making millions out of ‘by the night’ flats for Kent’s homeless

July 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

Nightly let rates are more lucrative for the supplier since they can earn up to a £1,000 more per month At the end of June we brought you the post ” Firms make [...]

Will Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s auditor – Grant Thornton – find the fraud?

July 13, 2019 // 5 Comments

Each year every local authority is required by law to make up its accounts and get an auditor to sign off on them. Members of the public have certain rights during the [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on Consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park

July 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council have spent £5 million on consultants for Princes Parade & Otterpool Park since March 2016. Both sites which our council wish to [...]

Michael Stainer bailed to appear in Canterbury Crown Court

July 10, 2019 // 6 Comments

Michael Stainer has been sent for trial to Canterbury Crown Court on a charge of a breach of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, following an email he is alleged to have [...]

F&HDC know the price of everything and the value of nothing

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s absolutely phenomenal. The value of Princes Parade, Hythe has risen dramatically. In March 2018, the land was worth a maximum of £80,000. After Princes Parade [...]

Time to go follow the money

July 5, 2019 // 2 Comments

While the Councils of East Kent publish reports on how rubbish East Kent Housing were at administering the P & R Installation Company Ltd contract, let’s not lose [...]

Further issues of possible non-compliance by East Kent Housing emerge

July 3, 2019 // 2 Comments

An East Kent Internal Audit makes clear there are justifiable concerns over the gas safety certificates fiasco. The preliminary findings of the audit into East Kent Housing, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council senior management handsomely rewarded for failure

June 30, 2019 // 2 Comments

The top three tiers of management at Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have been handsomely rewarded for their failure to manage and oversee the Swale [...]

All 4 East Kent Councils paid P & R for fraudulent Gas Safety Certificates

June 28, 2019 // 2 Comments

Yesterday -27th June 2019 Dover District Council Governance Committee met and part of the agenda pack at pages 18 and 19 states: Discussions were started with the contractor [...]

Firms make hundreds of thousands out of ‘by the night’ flats for Folkestone & Hythe homeless

June 26, 2019 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council has paid hundreds of thousands of pound between April 2018 and May 2019 to companies who provided them with ” self-contained [...]

The Long Read: All 4 East Kent Chief Executives should resign over Gas Safety Certificate fiasco

June 22, 2019 // 9 Comments

All Cllrs of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe & Thanet District Councils ought to bring a motion before their respective full councils regarding the lack of [...]

Cllr David Wimble Council Tax Arrears

June 20, 2019 // 1 Comment

Exclusive The Shepwayvox Team can exclusively reveal that Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) Cabinet Member for the District Economy, responsible for Economic development, [...]

Half Truths by Dr Priest at Overview & Scrutiny Committee? You decide

June 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

At last night’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee, Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) and Cllr Laura Davison (Lab) did themselves proud by probing [...]

Procedure to introduce a Controlled Parking Zone

June 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

On Tuesday 16/04/2019 the Overview & Scrutiny Committee met at the Civic Centre. On the agenda was the Call-in Report – Reconsideration of Decision 18/076. Officer [...]

Our public face curbs our Council’s right to charge for Environmental Information

June 10, 2019 // 5 Comments

On Sept 13th 2017, the Cabinet recommended that charging for Environmental Information would become mandatory. Report Number C-17-35 set out Shepway District Council’s [...]

Pipe down and don’t mention the overcharging and the Billion pound KCC accounts not signed off

June 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

A senior member of Shepway Green Party Cllr Martin Whybrow (pictured), a KCC and Hythe Town Councillor has suggested that our public face and the Shepwayvox Team “pipe [...]

Part 2: Racism against Travellers and Gypsies is still permissible – even in Folkestone & Hythe District

June 7, 2019 // 6 Comments

a YouGov/Traveller Movement survey, released in Oct 2017, found that more than 40% of British parents polled would be unhappy with a close relative forming a relationship [...]

Is another Tory Folkestone & Hythe District Councillor on the fiddle?

June 5, 2019 // 7 Comments

Yesterday we brought you the Cllrs allowances and expenses in three graphs. Now we will drill down into the detail of each Cllrs allowances and expenses claims, as submitted [...]

Cllrs Allowances & Expenses 2015/16 – 2018/19 in three graphs

June 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

Once again we have crunched the data on our Cllrs allowances & expenses and reproduced the data in three graphs which show what they have received in 2018/19, what they [...]

Restricted: Job Applications for the Head of Paid Service of Folkestone & Hythe District Council

June 3, 2019 // 2 Comments

On April 1st 2018, Dr Susan Julia Priest became the Head of Paid Service (HoPs). Being elevated to top job in the Council brought her an extra £10,000 on top of her previous [...]

The Long Read: All is not what it seems as we slide slowly into the Jaws of Death

June 2, 2019 // 15 Comments

The Planning Committee which will meet for the first time in June, would do no better than looking at the newly released Land Use statistics from the Ministry of Housing [...]

A highly incompetent and slovenly MP?

May 29, 2019 // 4 Comments

Recently the Daily Telegraph (paywall) ran a story about hundreds of MPs having their official credit cards suspended by the expenses watchdog, IPSA. Among the list of [...]

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