Kent County Council – ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

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 [...]

KCC trough feeding Cllrs receive £2 million in Allowances & Expenses

June 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

The trough feeders at Kent County Council all 81 elected Councillors have cost the Kent ratepayer nearly £2 million pounds in allowances & expenses for 2018/19. Below [...]

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 [...]

Grant Thornton telling lies? You decide.

May 17, 2019 // 1 Comment

Grant Thornton is under investigation for it’s audits and earlier this year the Chief Executive of Grant Thornton informed the business, energy and industrial strategy [...]

The most popular site in Britain- Part 3

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

The land shaded in orange below is owned by Canterbury City Council (CCC). This land is on the south east side of Stuppington Lane, Canterbury. It is a crucial piece of land [...]

Gender pay gap alive and well at Kent County Council

March 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council (KCC) continue to pay men more than women. In 2018/19 KCC reported a median pay gap of 11.7%, meaning on average women are paid 88.3 pence for every £1 a [...]

Folkestone: A step too far?

February 15, 2019 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.

February 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Kent County Council Land Part 2: The most popular site in Britain

February 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

In mid Jan we brought you the post Kent County Council Land: The most popular site in Britain in which we informed you that Quinn Estates along with Atlas Partners Group [...]

Hythe Town Green (Kent) Village Green application to be heard in February

January 29, 2019 // 1 Comment

Back in the Autumn of 2016 an application to register land known as Hythe Green (Kent) as a Town or Village Green, was made to Kent County Council. We now understand that a [...]

Official Diaries: Kent CC says yes, Folkestone & Hythe DC says no

January 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Kent County Council Land: The most popular site in Britain

January 13, 2019 // 2 Comments

The land shaded in orange below is owned by Kent County Council. They have owned it since the 19th February 1982. It is situated between the Simon Langton Grammar School for [...]

Kent Libraries – Going, Going…

January 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

How do we keep all 99 libraries across the 12 districts of Kent relevant to the people they serve? All the numbers are going south and it seems that few if any ideas are [...]

Now what we need are facts

December 30, 2018 // 1 Comment

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form [...]

Brexit: Preventing another Operation Stack & Operation Brock

December 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

On the 23rd June 2016, 51.9% of the people of the United Kingdom voted in favour of leaving the EU. Now with Brexit just one hundred and eight days away, the Prime Minister [...]

Fixing a hole and saving a million

December 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Peter Principle alive & well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust

November 17, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Peter principle is alive and well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust. If for one moment one believes that the proposal for a new Hospital at [...]

KCC sell Royal Victoria Hospital and F&HDC purchased Highview for £750,000

October 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

According to Savills website, the Royal Victoria Hospital, site has been sold. This has happened in the last few days. No details as of yet have been updated on the Land [...]

What a load of rubbish

September 30, 2018 // 3 Comments

There are many reasons why you might wish to hire a van; moving home, shifting large furniture from A to B, perhaps even to clear out a load of cumbersome toot that has been [...]

The Long Read: To divest or not to divest, that is the question

September 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

Amazon, Facebook, Taylor Wimpey, BAE Systems, Royal Dutch Shell and Rio Tinto are just some of the companies the £6 billion pound Kent Pension Fund (KPF), administered by [...]

It’s official – broadband speeds on Romney Marsh, Lympne & Stanford suck!

August 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

In 2015 Williamson Road, Lydd on Sea average broadband speed was 0.54Mps, which meant it would take around 19 hours to download a two-hour HD film, and a 20-song music album [...]

Barclays, Kent County Council and the LOBO Roadshow

July 22, 2018 // 3 Comments

(Updated 23/07/18 17.00) In mid 2004, a pair of fresh faced, sharply suited bankers pulled out of the car park at Barclays Global HQ in Canary Wharf and drove south on the [...]

The Marsh Academy

July 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Marsh Academy seems to be doing something right. Oversubscribed in 2017 and now in 2018, things are looking up. The last Ofsted report said of the school: Leaders use [...]

KCC’s Foreign travel: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

July 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

On July 14 last year we informed you that officers of KCC had visited the following 13 countries: New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Moldova, [...]

£200 million has gone to 3 Kent County Council PFI contractors

July 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council (KCC) have three Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Contractors who between them receive payment for 11 schools all of which were built in the noughties. [...]

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