Rebecca Shoob

Overview & Scrutiny: Retrofitting, Housing, Fuel Poverty and a dash of hypocrisy

January 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Housing, housing, housing, it’s all about housing. On the agenda at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee held on the 17 Jan 2023 was Retrofitting Council homes in the [...]

Private Rented Sector: Damp & Mould: “It’s not lifestyle”

December 3, 2022 // 4 Comments

The similarities in this case of damp and mould are so striking to the one which took the life of the two year old Awaal Ishak, we just had to write about it. Tina is a mum [...]

All work and spending on Bigginswood must stop with immediate effect due to lapsed planning permission

November 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

Land at Bigginswood, Cheriton, was purchased in Dec 2016 under urgency powers by the then Coporate Director Dr Susan Priest. The price paid by the Council was £1.5m; which [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Hidden Agenda’s and Fair Value

October 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

Ever since the first piece of land was purchased by the Council at Otterpool, in Dec 2015, for £5m from the Champney Brothers, the fair value of the land has risen by 540%, [...]

Council reluctant to place reports about financial and contract irregularities into the public domain.

September 22, 2022 // 5 Comments

Updated 26/10/22 @19:30 Sometimes, just sometimes, we do feel for Cllrs who try their best, but find themselves unsupported by other Cllrs who sit on the same committee. [...]

The Looker’s £19,000 High Street Fund application to be heard by Overview & Scrutiny on the 13 July

July 6, 2022 // 4 Comments

On the 22nd June we ran the post: Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund Since then things have moved on at pace. The amount [...]

Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund

June 22, 2022 // 3 Comments

Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) is never a man far away from controversy or fake news. Just recently we informed you he’d made a complaint about Fred Miller of [...]

Council publicly admit two investigations into contractual and financial irregularities

June 8, 2022 // 8 Comments

Updated 09.06.22 @09:28am Charlotte Spendley (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s s151 Officer (the council officer with statutory responsibility for [...]

Council short changed town and parish councils & ignore due process and pay policy

September 30, 2021 // 1 Comment

“She’s a fcuking menace” is how one senior council officer described the Chief Executive of Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Dr Susan Priest [...]

£40 million Veolia Waste Contract investigation will not be held in public

July 12, 2021 // 4 Comments

The Council set up an Overview and Scrutiny Waste contract Task and Finish Group to investigate the Veolia Waste Contract Fiasco, which led to thousands of homes NOT having [...]

The Overview & Scrutiny Committee Inquisition into the £40 million waste contract cock up has begun

June 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

It was a miracle, whether divine or not is impossible to say. On Tuesday 15th June at 6.30pm at the Overview & Scrutiny Committee, the number of apologies from Cllrs [...]

Cllrs go missing in action

May 28, 2021 // 2 Comments

What a waste! In the last two years there have not been many opportunities for opposition members to land any significant blows on the Tory led coalition at Folkestone & [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council breaking Environmental Law

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

New evidence has emerged which shows Folkestone & Hythe District Council are in clear breach of environmental law and in particular the Environmental Permitting (England [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council the gift which keeps on giving

September 24, 2020 // 2 Comments

Data they say, is the new oil. Each month Folkestone & Hythe District Council produce their monthly payment to suppliers data which continues to be a rich seam to drill [...]

£40,000 Pay Rise For Failing Chief Exec of Folkestone & Hythe District Council

July 15, 2020 // 5 Comments

She says she understands the importance of transparency and is able to discharge responsibilities to the highest standards of probity. Dr Susan Priest, the Chief Executive of [...]

Otterpool Park Update: It’s Official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council Now Own The Racecourse

July 3, 2020 // 2 Comments

Updated: 26/10/20 @12:40 It’s official. Folkestone & Hythe District Council now own Folkestone racecourse, according to the land registry. The deal has taken close [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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