More double faults served up at Hythe Lawn Tennis Club
Following our Long Read last month detailing a ‘turning circle’ installed by Hythe Lawn Tennis Club without planning permission, Folkestone & Hythe District Council [...]
Martin Whybrow
Flytipping increases 18% after costs introduced by KCC in 2019/20
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
So the local Tory party has dumped the Monk. In a selection battle for the 2021 KCC County Elections, Cllr Monk (pictured below left) went up against Dylan Jeffrey (pictured [...]
KCC Pension Fund slowly but surely divesting from assets which kill humans and destroy the planet
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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 [...]