A Vote for Rylands on May 4 is a vote for action, not gimmicks
I care about our environment, whether it is Princes Parade, Otterpool, our air, our rivers, or our seas. I care so much, I am taking Southern Water to tribunal to discover [...]
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Sewage discharges fall due to drier weather, not Southern Water’s actions
The data released by the Environment Agency regarding the total duration (hours) of all spills by Southern Water, prior to processing into the sea and the East Stour river, [...]
Southern Water: No clue how much undiluted raw sewage they’ve pumped into our seas for 34 years
Exclusive They don’t have a clue. Not a single idea of how much undiluted raw sewage they pump into our rivers and seas. Is it plausible that the closing of St [...]
Education will help the cumulative impact of sewage pollution
Water laps at 26 miles of our wonderful districts coastline, and along the banks of the two main rivers which flow through the district, the East Stour and the Nailbourne. It [...]
Stodmarsh Update: “There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period”
“For the foresseable future, it looks like nutrient neutrality is here to stay. There is no prospect of the nutrients disappearing in the next 5-year period” [...]
1,911 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2021.
Hands up who thinks Southern Water are sh*t. That’s unanimous then. In the last ten years Southern Water have been awarded two ratings of good by the Environment [...]
Affinity, Southern & South East Water lose 4 Bewl Water reservoirs to leakage each year
Water is arguably the most important commodity on Earth. Humans don’t tend to last long without it. Water covers 70% of our planet, and it is easy to think that it will [...]
Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue Update: Up to 50,000 homes per annum affected by Nutrient Issue in East Kent
It depends on your point of view, it could be a good thing or a bad thing. The Stodmarsh Nutrient Issue rumbles on. According to Roland Cooper of Considine the issue is [...]
2,338 hours of untreated diluted sewage discharged into sea of Folkestone & Hythe District in 2020.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
“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
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.
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.
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
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 [...]