Operation Brock is the most unfunny joke
This is a Guest Post Few people will need reminding of the infamous ‘Just Stop Oil’ Dartford Crossing protest of 17th October 2022. It caused two days of havoc at a [...]
Kent
High Court rule Home Office and Kent County Council acted unlawfully in their treatment of unaccompanied asylum seeking children
Updated 27 July @14:41 A “secret agreement” made by Kent County Council and the Home Secretary to formalise and normalise their treatment of unaccompanied [...]
Hythe Town FC: Explosive report claims VAT evasion and other serious irregularities
Exclusive Claims of VAT evasion, financial mismanagement, the legal status of the club to qualify for the Isthmian league put in doubt, a secret deal to sell the club for [...]
Right to Roam access in Kent is just 0.6%
Did you know access to nature is very unequally distributed across England. 72% of the Peak District is access land, compared to just 0.6% of Kent According to data released [...]
Kent MPs stay warm at taxpayers expense, while Kent children go cold
9 of the 17 Kent MPs have claimed more than £28,000 on expenses to pay energy bills in their second homes over the last six years, the Shepway Vox Team can reveal. Taxpayers [...]
Housing development at former St Saviour’s Hospital site in Hythe, in doubt
Detail, detail detail, the devil is in the detail. From the evidence publicly available it would appear for the former St Saviour Hospital reserved matters planning [...]
Council to press on with controversial Princes Parade redevelopment
Members should note however that there is a critical path which would need to be followed and this does not allow for any slippage, delay, or process frustration. Ever since [...]
Tool thefts in Kent have lasting financial and mental health impacts on Tradespeople.
“Insurance claims are limited, as it happens very frequently and the old bill simply aren’t bothered”, says Andrew who had his van and his tools robbed [...]
Following Harlow would lead to paying less Council Tax for us all in Kent
The average Council tax across all 12 Kent districts is £2,043. What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you [...]
Cost of Living Crisis: Study finds 243 ‘hotspots’ in Kent at greatest risk from rising energy bills
Residents in Swale, Thanet and Folkestone & Hythe will be hit hardest by spiralling energy prices as the crisis deepens this week, a study has shown. The areas contain [...]
Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year
Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]
Six weeks on where’s the eight years of council procurement card data?
Back in March of this year, Internal Audit in it’s quarterly report (see page 8) made it clear there were twenty four active procurement cards [read credit card] issued [...]
Leas Pavillion crumbles, while money for development flows in from offshore company
As parts of the Leas Pavillion, Folkestone, begin to crumble unexpectedly, the developer, Olivier Georges Jacques Daelemans, is lucky that work is under way to protect and [...]
Child Poverty Across Kent. It’s not all doom and gloom
New figures released on July 12 by End Child Poverty show that eight districts across Kent have seen a decrease in child poverty – 0-15 year olds – and four [...]
Part 2: Census Population Data – Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
The new census data underlies what statisticians, economists, politicians and most of the population have known for years: that Britain is ageing. The same is true in Kent. [...]
Census Population Data Kent Districts 2011 – 2021
Yesterday 28.06.22, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released the Census data for 2021. This was a snapshot of the UK population and other information recorded by [...]
Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments has ‘acquired’ Princes Parade & Hythe Pool site
David Richard Pownceby (pictured) has held or holds directorships in 97 companies. Companies House shows that he is, or has resided in 68 companies as a director, person of [...]
Clients & Employees of The Grand owed hundreds of thousands in upaid wages and refunds
Updated: 04/06/22 @08:39 Prof Victor Klinkinhoffer B.TECH MC (aka) Robert Graham Moss (pictured), and director of five companies, of which four are registered to the address [...]
Enough long term vacant homes in Kent to house all of the statutory homeless in 2021
The number of long term vacant properties has fallen across nine out of the twelve districts in Kent according to the latest data from the Department for Levelling Up, [...]
Kent continues to lead the way in housing Ukrainian Refugees.
The people of Kent are wonderful, especially those who continue to take Ukrainian refugees. Data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Home [...]
Fear is the path to the Dark Side
“In many ways Folkestonians have more to fear from those migrating in from London than those arriving, desperate, on inflatable dinghies from overseas,” according [...]
Kent leads the way housing Ukrainian Refugees
As of the 6th April, the wonderful people of Kent had more visas issued to house Ukrainian Refugees, than any other county, according to data released by the Department for [...]
Cllr Monk has lost the financial plot regarding Otterpool Park
On the 24th Nov 2021, Cllr David Monk (Con), Leader of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, rose in the chamber to answer a question put by Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab). She [...]
Otterpool Park notice of planning application submitted and will be decided by Xmas 22
Updated: 01.4.22 @21:10 According to a public and legal notice in the Evening Standard, a notice of a planning application for Otterpool Park (Y19/0257/FH) has been [...]
Princes Parade update: Costs rise 655% between 2014 and 2022
In January 2014 there was a review of a New Leisure Centre at Princes Parade, undertaken by Strategic Leisure Limited, for and on behalf of our Council. In May 2014, the [...]