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Nine Kent Councils collect £3.5 million in Penalty Charge Notices

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Between August 2019 and July 2020, according to data collected through Freedom of Information (FoI) requests by Compare the Market, Medway Council has issued the most Penalty [...]

Free School Meals rise by 25.6% in one year in Kent

January 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

“I don’t even know what to say. Just look at what we can do when we come together, THIS is England in 2020.” said Marcus Rashford MBE on June 16 2020. From the moment [...]

Unemployment in Kent inches upwards.

December 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another 1,532 people claimed Universal Credit (UC) in Kent in Nov 2020, meaning that nearly 11.5% of the working population aged between 16 – 64 is now unemployed in [...]

Free School Meals On the Rise Across Kent

October 23, 2020 // 3 Comments

The number of children in Kent receiving free schools meals between 2018 and 2019 increased by 3,452 pupils, according to the latest data published by Kent County Council. [...]

Cllrs to consider potential new civic centre at Otterpool Park

October 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

Updated 06/10/20 @14:10 Location, Location, Location and the location for a potential new civic centre at Otterpool Park is to be considered by Cllrs on the Overview & [...]

Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 23 (05/06/20)

June 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 5th June but were registered up to 13th June in England and Wales. They are [...]

Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 22 (29/05/20)

June 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 29th May but were registered up to 6th June in England and Wales. They are [...]

Record Breakers: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Break Two Records in One Day

June 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s getting to be a habit with Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking records. – 1; – 2; – 3 For the seventeenth (17th) year in a row, [...]

Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 21 (22/05/20)

June 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 22nd May but were registered up to 30th May in England and Wales. They are [...]

Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 20 (15/05/20)

May 26, 2020 // 1 Comment

NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 15th May but were registered up to 23rd May in England and Wales. They are [...]

Coronavirus Kent In Five Graphs (Week 19)

May 19, 2020 // 2 Comments

The latest published figures from the Office of National Statistics for deaths by local authority and cause of death up to 8th May but were registered up to 16th May all show [...]

Coronavirus Kent In Five Graphs

May 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics compiled weekly and as such likely to be more accurate of what is truly happening in the county were released today. [...]

How many of the 25,000 companies in Kent, eligible for covid grants, will survive the crisis?

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Within in twelve local authority districts in Kent, 25,377 businesses have been identified by the councils as within the scope to receive either the Small Business Grants [...]

Kent Covid -19 deaths compared to non-covid-19 deaths in Kent & England and Wales

April 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) published their most up to date data yesterday for all deaths due to Covid-19; and all other deaths across all local authorities in [...]

Child Poverty in Kent, Has Risen For Fifth Year In A Row

April 8, 2020 // 1 Comment

With the world concentrating it’s attention on the Covid-19 pandemic other issues are, understandably, passing unnoticed. One of these issues is the continuing growth in [...]

Kent Councils Sell 1,300 Council Homes Making £120 million

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Seven local authorities in Kent have sold more than 1,300 council homes under right to buy (RTB) and made in excess of a £120 million, according to the latest figures [...]

More than 5,300 empty homes in Kent and they’re worth an estimated £1.9bn

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

The number of empty homes across Kent has risen for the third consecutive year to more than 5,300, the highest level since 2012, according to official figures. The number of [...]

Animal Carcasses, Clinical Waste & Green Waste Amongst the 3.3% Fly Tipping Increase in Kent.

March 15, 2020 // 1 Comment

More rubbish than ever is being dumped illegally across Kent. Figures published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) reveal there has been [...]

Rough sleeping rises in nearly all Kent districts

January 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rough sleeping rose in nine out of twelve districts in Kent (not Medway) last year according to official figures released by the Ministry for Housing Communities & Local [...]

Kent MP Costs For 2017/18

November 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]

Your councillors allowances & expenses Apr 17 – Mar 18

May 9, 2018 // 3 Comments

Once again for the third time in four years there are anomalies in our Cllrs allowances & expenses. The people who are responsible for ensuring Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Kent Names In The Paradise Papers

December 10, 2017 // 1 Comment

He was an accountant to a galaxy of stars before he was sentenced to five years in prison, in Jan 2016, for evading £6 million in tax. On the fifth of November 2017, The [...]

£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.

November 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

Are They Worth £9.2 Million?

November 20, 2017 // 5 Comments

In Kent – including Medway, there were 715 elected representatives who received expenses and allowances in the financial year 2016/17. Kent has 559 elected [...]

Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.

November 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

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