Southern Water

2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.

August 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

Southern Water owned offshore in the tax haven of Jersey, discharged untreated diluted sewage into the sea of the Folkestone & Hythe District coastline for two thousand [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

The Stodmarsh moratorium holding up 40,000 homes across East Kent

July 11, 2021 // 5 Comments

It will take “a very large financial number” to fix the Stodmarsh phosporus & nitrogen issue, say Natural England in a meeting held on Wednesday 2nd December, [...]

Affinity & Southern Water Lose Enough Water to Fill 100 Olympic Swimming Pools Each Day in 2019/20

July 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

In England, we take for granted a plentiful supply of water. Yet our high population density means the available water per person is actually less than in many Mediterranean [...]

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 [...]

Universal Credit Claims Pass 80,000 in Kent

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

The numbers of people claiming Universal Credit (UC) across all JobCentre Plus Offices in Kent (including Medway) between Feb 2019 and March 12th 2020 has risen by 37,329 [...]

Help & Assistance on Universal Credit

April 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

“Every little helps” so the Tesco’s adverstising logo says; and at a time when many across the Folkestone & Hythe District will have to claim Universal [...]

The Long Read: Horn Street Stench, Part 2

November 25, 2018 // 4 Comments

Since we brought you Part 1 of The Horn Street Stench in early October 2018, more details about raw sewage backing up in toilets and baths and [...]

The Horn Street Stench.

October 6, 2018 // 3 Comments

On March 24th 2015 Shepwayvox was born. It was said in the very first post, by the solitary member and writer at that time who is now, our public face, somewhere down the [...]

The Long Read: Otterpool Park -update.

February 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

So what do you get for £281,230,000 or two hundred and eighty one million two hundred a thirty thousand pounds? Well, according to Kent County Council’s ( KCC) [...]

Taylor Wimpey Houses on the Garrison Site

March 24, 2015 // 1 Comment

It was inevitable. Planning application Y14/0300/SH Shorncliffe Garrison passed at the Development Control Committee on the 24th March 2015. I doubted if the Council [...]

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