Luxembourg – ShepwayVox Dissent is not a Crime

Leas Pavillion crumbles, while money for development flows in from offshore company

July 17, 2022 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Start Me Up

April 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Four years ago, the former Silver Spring site sat empty. The Herald ran a story about how the derelict Silver Spring site in Folkestone will look after much needed [...]

Perverse & absurd, but KCC keep paying their offshore PFI contractors

August 23, 2021 // 4 Comments

Back in 2013, Peter Read, who runs the Kent Independent Education Advice website, uncovered a financial scandal relating to academies. In his article published on 22 Sept [...]

Yet Another Visionary Plan for Folkestone Town Centre

February 1, 2021 // 3 Comments

Following the announcement of a “visionary” Place Plan in October 2020, Folkestone & Hythe District Council have just revealed that We Made That LLP have been awarded [...]

Encore via two offshore locations take over chasing debtors for Affinity Water

November 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

They are the UK’s biggest debt collector, Cabot Credit Management. Cabot buys debts and loans in arrears from banks, utilities, telecom companies and local authorities, and [...]

Part 2: KCC Pension Fund is divesting from fossil fuels but still investing in countries who do not uphold LGBT rights

September 11, 2020 // 1 Comment

The KCC Pension Fund total investments were valued at £6.6bn on 31 December 2019. Just three months later, on the 31st March 2020, the pension value had shrunk to £5.7 [...]

KCC Pension Fund slowly but surely divesting from assets which kill humans and destroy the planet

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

For its 135,000 investors it is good news, so is it for the rest of us. Kent County Council’s Pension Fund is slowly but surely divesting pension assets from [...]

Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.

December 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]

When one leaves, another arrives

December 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

On April 23rd 2018 a company was registered on the Luxembourg equivalent of Companies House. The name of this company was F55 Sterling Folkestone S. à r. l., Luxembourg an [...]

The Long Read: Marlie Farm Holiday Park

November 6, 2018 // 2 Comments

It doesn’t make sense, it just doesn’t make sense.. Marlie Farm Holiday Park (New Romney, Kent) was purchased by Harts Holiday Camps Limited on the [...]

Queens House, Folkestone another offshore property

September 14, 2018 // 4 Comments

Queens House (pictured below) Folkestone is another property in our glorious district owned offshore. The owners, who we’ll come onto shortly, wish to turn the upper [...]

The Long Read: Ownership of Pensand House & Marlborough Court Hythe, a little clearer.

September 7, 2018 // 3 Comments

It’s complicated, but then it always is when you are looking at opaque offshore structures. The tenants in Pensand House (pictured below after revamp) & Marlborough [...]

£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. [...]

Shepway Property Owned Offshore.

November 10, 2017 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Dunstall Lane, St Mary’s Bay.

October 22, 2017 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

Planning Application Coming Soon For Old Silver Spring Site Folkestone.

October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

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: Money Laundering & Tax Evasion In Shepway.

October 5, 2017 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Feasible Yes, But Will It Happen?

October 3, 2017 // 1 Comment

Nestled at the entrance to the Hythe end of Dymchurch sits New Beach Caravan Park. The site is owned by Park Holidays UK Ltd. To get to the ultimate UK company who owns Park [...]

Like Father, Like Son?

August 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

In the sleepy village of Smeeth, halfway between Folkestone & Ashford (Kent), sits a lovely house, just of Plain Road, called The Lodge (red pin). According to the Land [...]

Money For Nothing & Your Cheques For Free, & A Little About Land Value Tax

May 10, 2017 // 5 Comments

Sir Roger De Haan owns a sprawling 1500 acre farm called Horton Park Farm . In the map below it is the area marked in red. According to the latest figures available from [...]

Business Rates & Council Tax Issues In Shepway

May 3, 2017 // 2 Comments

When the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust (RDHCT) and the Creative Foundation (CF) have problems paying their Council Tax, then you know something is wrong (it was [...]

SDC pay £1.5 Million to a Convicted Criminal for 10 Acres of Land.

February 25, 2017 // 5 Comments

Adrian Kirby (Pictured) a former UK waste disposal operator and onetime member of the prestigious Guards Polo Club who illegally conspired to spy on his environmental [...]

The Long & Winding Road

January 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Long & Winding Road which leads us to the door of 80 Sidney Street starts in the British Virgin Islands. It starts at this address: Akara Building 24 De Castro [...]

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