The Long Read: Money Laundering & Tax Evasion In Shepway.
Tax Evasion, Money Laundering & Bankruptcy Fraud are not things one would normally believe happen in Shepway, that happens elsewhere, not here, but alas it does happen [...]
Hythe
The Long Read: Cozumel Estates Limited a British Virgin Island Company.
After more than a 7,000 mile journey and a little over 30 hours in the air to visit the British Virgin Islands (a known offshore tax haven) we can reveal a little more about [...]
Seven Clumps Of Japanese Knotweed On Princes Parade.
There is not one, there is not two or even three, but seven clumps of Japanese Knotweed that we have photographed so far on Princes Parade. The clumps range in size from a [...]
Damian Collins MP £17,600 Worth of Donations & that Glastonbury Ticket.
Damian Collins MP registered £17,600 in donations on July 17 2017. Mr Paul Francis (pictured), Political Editor of the Kentish Express for some reason chose to focus on [...]
Y16/0866/SH Redlynch House, Hythe. How Does It End?
On April 26th our Public Face, brought you the the blog post below (while standing for election for KCC). Today at the Planning & Licensing Committee (7pm) we’ll [...]
Dodgy Dave At It Again? I’ll Leave You To Decide That.
Geoff Miles (pictured) – co-owner Maidstone TV Studio & Chair of the Kent & Medway Economic Partnership, was according to the KM Kent Business the fourth most [...]
Requires Improvement.
In late Nov 2016 we ran a story about Care Workers in Shepway not receiving the minimum wage. Back in April 2016 Kentonline ran the story “Allied Healthcare Hythe in [...]
Delusional Tories in a Rotten Borough, you decide.
Recently at a meeting of the Overview & Scrutiny Committe, Cllr Mary Lawes (UKIP) (pictured) called the Tory led chamber ‘Delusional’ on three occasions. [...]
Hidden Facts about Otterpool Park
Today marks the beginning of Shepway District Council’s (SDC) consultation about the Otterpool Park Development. At Sellindge Sports & Social Club between 2pm [...]
Otterpool, Offshore’s And a Little Insider Knowledge.
In 2013 the Government’s Planning Inspector denied the redevelopment of Folkestone Racecourse on the grounds that too many homes were proposed. Folkestone Racecourse, [...]
Planning Application Y/16/0725/SH Hythe, Kent.
It all begins with a simple phone call. They were agitated, scared, nervous, confused with lots of questions. What if the rents go up? What if they ask us to move? Where will [...]
Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant
Behind Closed Doors at 5-pm Today 24 Feb 2016, SDC Cabinet made up of 9 Tory Cllrs will discuss the Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant and more specifically the legal [...]
Behind closed doors, shit happens.
On Wednesday 24 Feb at 5pm 9 Tory Cllrs and a number of SDC Officers will seat themselves in the Civic Centre Chamber and discuss Oportunitas Ltd and Hythe Town Green [...]
Serious Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in Shepway Workplaces.
Shepwayvox was contacted by a person who had experienced serious sexual harassment and discrimination in their workplace. We decided to investigate and have collected [...]
Information to be published annually by SDC
There is Data that SDC must publish annually, so this piece will not be a short piece. What is this data local authority land grants to voluntary, community and social [...]
SDC Employees and their Pensions
The Times has reported this morning [01/09/15] (paywall) that: The legal cornerstone underpinning the entire edifice of bank accounting is defective, according to a QC’s [...]
Do they or Don’t they?
I paid SDC for their contracts register when the books were open. This is what they gave me. It is exactly the same as you can find in a previous blog entitled SDC Contracts [...]
Stop the Knock
In 2014/15, Shepway District Council instructed bailiffs to collect debts from individuals and businesses on 3647 occasions – up 141% in two years. The number of debts [...]
SDC Legal
Legal Cases are usually not spoken about by our Council or many other Councils up and down the land. I did an FOI to Shepway about ALL legal cases but received back only [...]
Anomalies in SDC Accounts Part 2
Cllr Russell Tillson (pictured below) was formerly an elected Shepway District Council Cllr for Dymchurch. He lost his seat in the recent elections of May 2015. Former Cllr [...]
SDC Cllr Allowances
Below are the allowances received by SDC Councillors for the year April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015. The sum total claimed by ALL councillors was £335,370.37 see SDC Cllr [...]
SDC Contracts Register
Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]
Not a lot of people know that
Attached at 1,2,3, are copies of Shepway District Council’s Investments held in instant access deposit accounts from1/04/14 – 31/03/15 including interest rates [...]
SDC and its company Oportunitas Ltd
SDC set up a company by the name of Oportunitas Ltd, registered at Companies House, after the elections new directors were added for obvious reasons and available to view for [...]
Shepway District Council Debt Levels
As of the 31st March 2015 Shepway District Council had debt levels of sixty two million, three hundred thousand pounds (62.3m). While discussing the accounts during the 20 [...]