Hypocrite? You Decide
Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe is chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee and we believe a hypocrite. Damian has recently written to the [...]
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Damian Collins MP Expenses 2016/17
Since May 2010 – to March 31st 2017, Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone & Hythe has cost the public purse £1,144,586 according to IPSA. The average amount he has [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Cllr Susan Joan Carey
Cllr Susan Carey (pictured) was first elected to Shepway District Council (SDC) in 1999 for the then seat of Saltwood & Newington. She won the seat with 240 votes gaining [...]
Update on Otterpool Park
Warwick Smith in The Guardian sets out that Companies “don’t give their money away for nothing. There is an understanding (rarely made explicit) that large [...]
Are They Worth £9.2 Million?
In Kent – including Medway, there were 715 elected representatives who received expenses and allowances in the financial year 2016/17. Kent has 559 elected [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2016/17
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,597,410 for the financial year 2016/17. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.) This year, [...]
The Grand Inferno
Forgive the classical allusion but Dante might be the name that will be taking up a lot of Michael Stainer’s time over the coming months. But he won’t be studying [...]
Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.
In conjunction with Ian Driver, a blogger from Thanet, we the Shepwayvox Team, bring you a district by district comparison of how many properties (includes land) are held in [...]
The Gateway To The Shepway Addresses Owned Offshore
Earlier Today we promised you all 145 addresses of properties held overseas. The vast majority of them are held in known tax haven jurisdictions. They cover the whole [...]
Shepway Property Owned Offshore.
Yesterday, the Land Registry released all the title deeds of all tax haven/offshore companies which own property in the UK. There are, according to the Land Registry, 98,583 [...]
Rough Sleeping Kills.
Terry (not his real name) is a rough sleeper. It was his hand that first drew him to our attention. He was missing two fingers. Frostbite the winter of 2015, he told us. He [...]
Lorry Park Stanford
The rumours that the lorry park at Stanford has been ditched according to “sources close to the Construction Team” – Balfour Beatty has been revealed by [...]
Who is Shelia Diane Jarvis?
First off: the fact that a person living in Shepway or elsewhere in the UK has an account in an offshore jurisdiction is not, in and of itself, evidence of illegal activity. [...]
Biggins Wood, Cheriton: Planning Application Y17/0888/SH
Shepway District Council have submitted Planning Application Y17-0888-SH which is linked to planning application Y13/0024/SH to erect 49 industrial units (4562 sqm) and 2 [...]
Cllr Russell Douglas Tillson
Cllr Russell Douglas Tillson (pictured below) was first elected to Shepway District Council as a Cllr for the Dymchurch & St. Marys Bay Ward in 2007 with 846 votes. He [...]
Perseverance Wins The Day
The people of Shepway are “selfish” according to Cllr David Drury Monk (pictured). It is not the first time he has used such strong and disparaging language about people [...]
Criminal?
There are a number of companies in the group and the “brand” known as “Sir Roger De Haan”. The “brand” relating to the harbour is as far [...]
Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay.
Before we begin our trip down Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay,, we want to explain briefly and broadly what a “Tax haven” is. So we have best left that to [...]
How To Investigate Companies.
Would you like to learn how to ‘Investigate a Company’? Would you like to learn about Shepway District Council’s company Oportunitas, Cozumel Estates, MF & L Ltd [...]
Planning Application Coming Soon For Old Silver Spring Site Folkestone.
Proposals are expected to come forward for a planning application of the 3.8 hectare (9.39 acres) for the former Silver Spring site, in the near future. The land is owned by [...]
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 [...]
What the hell else have they got to offer people?
In the fortnight after Prince Harry announced that he had suffered from mental health problems it’s emerged that Shepway has an above the average anti-depressant [...]
KCC Councillors Paid £6.5 million For Nothing?
In the 4 years since the last KCC election our 84 county councillors have been paid the astronomic total of £6,632 million in expenses and allowances. In Shepway our 6 KCC [...]
Policy No 4 – Part 1: Education
Vote Rylands Folkestone West Division May 4th 2017 Six of the eight educational establishments in the Folkestone West Division will lose £2.2 [...]