News

10,000 Lorry Brexit customs clearance centre to be built on the outskirts of Ashford.

July 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

Updated: 9:50am (11/07/20) It has been annouced earlier today the government has secretly purchased 11 hectares (27 acres) of land on the outskirts of Ashford (next to [...]

Princes Parade: The Fight Goes On

July 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Save Princes Parade Group (SPPG) have been informed that they’ve lost their initial request for permission to appeal the Judicial Review they lost. Their [...]

C**k up, Conspiracy or Incompetence?

July 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

So is it a cock up, conspiracy or incompetence? We simply do not know, but we’ll let you judge from the evidence we put before you. All the evidence is in the public [...]

Raw sewage flowed into our rivers in 2019 and Shepway Green Party remain silent.

July 2, 2020 // 2 Comments

Yesterday, The Shepway Green Party announced that Cllr Rebecca Tamsin Shoob (Green Party) (pictured) has accepted a place on the Ottepool Park LLP In 2019/20 Cllr Shoob [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council broke the law by ‘secretly’ relocating homeless people

July 1, 2020 // 2 Comments

It would appear the Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been breaking the law by sending households to other districts and counties. The Guardian make it clear in a [...]

The Dog (HMRC) Ate My Homework

June 28, 2020 // 2 Comments

How many times when a schoolboy at Bedford School did Michael Stainer use the excuse “the dog ate my homework”? We will never know, but we do know that he has been using [...]

Save Princes Parade Group Lose Judicial Review

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated 17:25 – 22/06/20 The Judicial Review brought by the Save Princes Parade over the planning permission for the development of Princes Parade (Hythe) has been [...]

Here We Go Again: Gas Safety Issues At East Kent Housing

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated 17:00 22/06/20 More sources than the 57 varieties of Heinz have stepped forward and informed the Shepwayvox Team that as of 1st June 2020 there were well in excess [...]

Universal Credit claims in Kent climb a further 25% between April and May 2020

June 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

The number of people claiming Universal Credit in Kent in May has increased once again, as was expected, because of the coronavirus epidemic. Between April & May 2020 the [...]

Council to pay £47,500 to replace all non-fire compliant doors in Ross House

June 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

After two years and two months Folkestone & Hythe District Council have begun replacing all the non-fire compliant doors in Ross House, which houses 43 residents in [...]

Updated ONS deaths attributed to covid-19 in Folkestone & Hythe District and the rest of the Country

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Office of National Statistics have update their map show places of death due to covid-19. It maps as low as ward level and can be searched by using your postcode. The [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Cllr Jim Martin “Shocked” Council appoint Tibbalds using a waiver for phase 1 of the Otterpool Park, at a cost of £120,000.

June 11, 2020 // 3 Comments

At a behind closed doors meeting of the Otterpool Working Group in April, an officer of the Council let slip that Tibbalds had been appointed as consultants to prepare [...]

“It’s nothing short of scandalous” as 40,000 plus EKH council tenants data placed at “significant security and operational risk”

June 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

“The servers that the [East Kent Housing] system runs on are due for replacement and the Northgate software is out of support. This poses a significant security and [...]

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 [...]

Part 2: Crusade Building Services Ltd in Safehands?

June 8, 2020 // 6 Comments

Crusade Building Services Ltd (CBS) lost their CheckaTrade and Trading Standards approval in 2018/2019 due to many complaints of poor practice and breaches of planning and [...]

The Puppet Master Exposed…

June 5, 2020 // 4 Comments

When Michael Stainer “illegally” removed Henry Bolton in November 2018, as the new director of his various companies, and replaced him with “Robert Moss’, little did [...]

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 [...]

Foreign Criminal Organisation Perpetrate Ransomware attack on £600m Kent County Council owned company

June 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Following on from our first report on the ransomware attack 12 days ago, a Kent County Council (KCC) spokesperson has revealed to the Shepwayvox Team that it was: “A [...]

FHDC staff mileage allowances may be reduced after six years and four reviews.

May 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

For many of you claiming mileage for using your car/van for work will be paid at 0.45p for the first 10,000 business miles in a year and then 25p per mile thereafter. This [...]

Misinformation by Kentonline Editor

May 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

On Tuesday we brought you the article the blog Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 20 (15/05/20) One of the graphs – Recorded deaths in Kent care homes says that [...]

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 [...]

Changes afoot to Overview & Scrutiny are decided behind closed doors continuing the lack of Openness & Transparency.

May 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

We have long said the effectiveness of the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) has been unacceptable and that it has been the lion which never roared. It has been a [...]

Universal Credit Claims In Kent Climb 46% in One Month

May 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

The number of people claiming Universal Credit in Kent increased by the most since records began in April to reach almost 118,000 thousand, according to official figures [...]

Council snap up Debenhams and debt repayment rises by 184% on £60 million of commercial investments

May 16, 2020 // 1 Comment

So as our public face predicted in April 2019 the Council have bought the former Debenhams building for a mark up of 2,482% and increased its debt repayments for it’s [...]

The Great Escape: the Remake

May 14, 2020 // 3 Comments

As Michael Stainer (again) and Hallam Estates, the company he set up in 1995 to keep control of the Grand, both slide towards insolvency under the burden of £500,000 of [...]

	Dave on 10,000 Lorry Brexit customs cl…
	shepwayvox on Land Banking Leads to a Grand…
	N S on Land Banking Leads to a Grand…
	petertheteacher on Revealed: Michael Stainer Owes…
	petertheteacher on Land Banking Leads to a Grand…