Martin Whybrow

Good News: Kent Pension Fund administered by KCC holds less than 1% of investments in fossil fuel companies

August 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Kent Pension Fund administered by Kent County Council, has over 140,000 members . The Pension Fund has taken giant strides in divesting from fossil fuel companies; which [...]

Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”

August 10, 2022 // 4 Comments

“This was totally foreseeable and Hythe Town Cllrs have done nothing to prevent it”, is how one residents sees the recent incursion by Travellers onto the South [...]

Hythe Town Council want you to eat plants and ignore our armed forces

June 28, 2021 // 7 Comments

Updated 01/07/21 @ 07:00 On Thursday 24 June 2021, Hythe Town Council meet at the Town Hall at 6.20 pm to discuss the following Agenda item 16.Notice of Motion No 109 [...]

More double faults served up at Hythe Lawn Tennis Club

May 11, 2021 // 6 Comments

Following our Long Read last month detailing a ‘turning circle’ installed by Hythe Lawn Tennis Club without planning permission, Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]

Flytipping increases 18% after costs introduced by KCC in 2019/20

April 18, 2021 // 4 Comments

It’s official! The number of flying tipping incidences between the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 has risen across all twelve councils in Kent (not including [...]

The Long Read: Hythe Tennis Club no planning permission for car park extension

April 11, 2021 // 11 Comments

When is a turning area for vehicles not a turning area for vehicles? When it’s a “car park extension”. On 22 March, Hythe Lawn Tennis Club put up [...]

Shepway Green Party misinformation about Royal Military Canal

March 16, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 17/03/21 @08:40 Charles Dickens put it most aptly when he said “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted [...]

The Irony of Princes Parade

March 7, 2021 // 5 Comments

Isn’t life ironic! The Cabinet member responsible for the Environment at Folkestone & Hythe District Council has had to resort to sending in a Freedom of [...]

Abramovich’s lieutenants issue s21 eviction notices to tenants at Marlbrough Court, Hythe.

February 16, 2021 // 6 Comments

On the 25th Sept 2018, we made it clear Pensand House and Marlborough Court, South Rd, Hythe was purchased by Roman Abramovich, via a complicated offshore arrangement back in [...]

Greenie grumbler to step down at next KCC election

December 13, 2020 // 3 Comments

On Thursday 2nd May 2013, Martin Edward Whybrow (Green) (pictured) was elected with 1,659 votes to Kent County Council Hythe Ward. He beat Cllr David Drury Monk (Con) who [...]

Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle

December 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]

Shepway Green Party Flatter to Deceive

June 29, 2020 // 4 Comments

On the 12th June 2020, The Shepway Green Party stated on their website the following: We cannot stop Otterpool and it would be dishonest to pretend that we could. Indeed, the [...]

Tories Dump The Monk

January 29, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated: @11.50am – Feb 12 2022 So the local Tory party has dumped the Monk. In a selection battle for the 2021 KCC County Elections, Cllr Monk (pictured below left) [...]

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 [...]

Our public face curbs our Council’s right to charge for Environmental Information

June 10, 2019 // 5 Comments

On Sept 13th 2017, the Cabinet recommended that charging for Environmental Information would become mandatory. Report Number C-17-35 set out Shepway District Council’s [...]

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 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 [...]

Dymchurch Recreation Ground

June 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

It all began with two simple sentences in the minutes of the 11 Jan 2017 (agenda item 2) report made by Dymchurch Parish Council. The two simple sentences said: This led to [...]

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 [...]

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