Developers, Donations & Cllrs Attitudes to the Planning System.
The Conservative Manifesto contained a headline commitment to “ensure local people have more control over planning” Yet power still rests with central/local government [...]
Shepway District Council
Where’s The Money?
Each month Shepway District Council (SDC) publish their payment to supplier data. Below is a graph which shows £28 million of SDC’s spend data for 2015/16. In [...]
Selling the Family Silver
On the 8th June 2016 the sale of 3-5-shornecliffe-rd (pictured) was completed. Shepway District Council sold the building for £990,000 to Highlife Homes Ltd. 3-5 [...]
Council House For Sex
Cllr Brian Copping (pictured) who represents the, East Folkestone Ward on Folkestone Town Council (below) has abused his position as a Councillor and brought the office of [...]
SDC Gagging Orders increase 82% in 2015/16
As of the 30th June 2016 Shepway District Council placed their unaudited accounts for 2015/16 online. We would like to draw your attention to page 79 of the accounts and [...]
Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant
Behind Closed Doors at 5-pm Today 24 Feb 2016, SDC Cabinet made up of 9 Tory Cllrs will discuss the Hythe Town Green Restrictive Covenant and more specifically the legal [...]
Expenses Investigation Report after 7 Months. What do you Think?
In July 2015 the public face of Shepwayvox got hold of all Cllrs expenses and as a team we waded through them. We discovered significant anomalies and began to post [...]
Twelve Grand Donation for Eversley College!
On the 14th May 2013 a planning application was submitted to develop Eversley College, Coolinge Lane Folkestone – ref Y13/0175/SH (page 67 onwards) to SDC (now [...]
The Cat is Out of The Bag
On Friday 20th Nov 2015 an informal tender to purchase 357.00 acres or 144.472Ha closed. Shepway District Council have purchased the land for £5.2 million or thereabouts. [...]
Who is Geoffrey Boot?
Geoffrey G Boot known locally as Baron Boot was a former Conservative Sandgate Parish Councillor and district Councillor, who tried to make Sandgate into a Town, but ran into [...]
A Conflict of Interest? You Decide
It has been brought to our attention by a member of the public who informed us about a little company called Creative Places & Spaces. It is a Community Interest Company [...]
SDC’s Investigation into Cllrs Expenses, behind closed doors.
SDC’s investigation into Cllrs Inappropriate Expenses Claims will be dealt with behind closed doors. An Extraordinary Audit and Standards Committee has been announced [...]
Shared Services & Consultants
Leader of Shepway District Council, Cllr David “Drury” Monk (Con) and Corporate Director for Resources Jeremy Chambers have been exploring alternative service [...]
Something is Rotten in the District Of Shepway
“We will a tale unfold, whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres.” WS [...]
Abuse of Power and SDC HR
The Shepwayvox team have discovered that SDC has been snooping into one of our members. They have been looking at our one of our members LinkedIn pages, Facebook page and [...]
Information to be published annually by SDC
There is Data that SDC must publish annually, so this piece will not be a short piece. What is this data local authority land grants to voluntary, community and social [...]
SDC Employees and their Pensions
The Times has reported this morning [01/09/15] (paywall) that: The legal cornerstone underpinning the entire edifice of bank accounting is defective, according to a QC’s [...]
Do they or Don’t they?
I paid SDC for their contracts register when the books were open. This is what they gave me. It is exactly the same as you can find in a previous blog entitled SDC Contracts [...]
SDC Legal
Legal Cases are usually not spoken about by our Council or many other Councils up and down the land. I did an FOI to Shepway about ALL legal cases but received back only [...]
Anomalies in SDC Accounts Part 2
Cllr Russell Tillson (pictured below) was formerly an elected Shepway District Council Cllr for Dymchurch. He lost his seat in the recent elections of May 2015. Former Cllr [...]
SDC Cllr Allowances
Below are the allowances received by SDC Councillors for the year April 1st 2014 to March 31st 2015. The sum total claimed by ALL councillors was £335,370.37 see SDC Cllr [...]
SDC Contracts Register
Like all council’s Shepway District Council has a Contracts register, so that they do not lose track of them. The Contracts Register currently shows that SDC has 141 [...]
Not a lot of people know that
Attached at 1,2,3, are copies of Shepway District Council’s Investments held in instant access deposit accounts from1/04/14 – 31/03/15 including interest rates [...]
Mass Data Purge at Shepway District Council
I have sent this FOI requests see below. It is about a mass data purge of information . I argue that disclosure of the data purge information would facilitate the [...]
Anomalies in Shepway District Council Accounts
As of this morning – 10/08/15 – the have made a complaint to both the Head of Finance of Shepway District Council [SDC] and the Auditor – Grant Thornton [...]