Susan Priest

Council Temporary staff cost pass a million with a little help from a possible lie

January 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

Temporary staff costs for Folkestone & Hythe District Council between April and Nov 2022 have reached £1,116,860. We predicted back in Nov 2022, temporary Staff would [...]

Council in advanced negotiations to sell Connect 38, but was purchase lawful?

December 6, 2022 // 3 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking to sell Connect 38 – Ashford; which they bought for £16.8m, on the 14 May 2019. However, no evidence exists of a [...]

Council balls up their recently published procurement card data.

July 27, 2022 // 3 Comments

You won’t believe it, but perhaps you will, as this is Folkestone & Hythe District Council we’re talking about after all. The two years worth of procurement [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council paid Russian gas giant on day war begun with Ukraine

April 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

The war began on Thursday 24th Feb, 2022. It has been 41 days since Russian forces swept across the border into the Ukraine, causing millions to flee their homes and their [...]

£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 [...]

Council issue Veolia with two week ultimatum to turn round £40 million waste contract fiasco

June 11, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated: 11/06/21 @ 20:05 Empty vessels, they say, make most noise and actions speak louder than words. On Wednesday 9th June Cllr Stuart Peall (Con), Cabinet Member [...]

Folkestone Seafront Development gets curiouser and curiouser says Alice

January 29, 2021 // 8 Comments

Updated 05/02/21 07:10am Here’s a curious thing. The reserved matters planning application for the first building (Plot B) of the Folkestone Seafront Development [...]

Napier Barracks Welcome Meeting: Council Officers march with “right wing extremist organisations”

October 17, 2020 // 8 Comments

Kent Refugee Action Network, who organised the welcome meeting for asylum seekers at Napier Barracks, Folkestone, today the 17th Oct, was attended by 200 plus people. They [...]

Otterpool Park Update: Priest Under Pressure

October 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

The courts say they must release it. The Information Upper Tier tribunal say they must release it. But still Folkestone & Hythe District Council, led by Dr Susan Priest, [...]

Brave New World of Council Housing in East Kent

October 1, 2020 // 8 Comments

Updated: 07/10/20 – @ 08:00 East Kent Housing is dead, just like that parrot. At midnight (30th Sept) it ceased to be. All its functions and responsibilities have now [...]

East Kent Councils fail to recoup £1.5 million from P & R

September 12, 2020 // 5 Comments

Fear, shame, embarrassment: these brakes no longer apply. Senior officers of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet councils have discovered they can bluster [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes

August 9, 2020 // 9 Comments

£6.2 million pounds worth of contracts in 2019/20 were issued by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, using waivers and citing urgency and expediency. In total, 49 [...]

Something is Rotten in the District of Folkestone & Hythe

August 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

There’s more to this than meets the eye. Yes the facts surrounding the Leo Griggs Royal Victoria Site gets murkier. Not only has the site been closed by the Health [...]

£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 [...]

Where’s The Money & Where’s The Data?

July 13, 2020 // 1 Comment

One man’s transparency is another’s humiliation; and once again Folkestone & Hythe District Council humiliate themselves for NOT being transparent. According to the [...]

Congratulations – Folkestone & Hythe District Council For Setting Yet Another Record

February 27, 2020 // 4 Comments

They’ve done it and with two months to spare. We said they would, we knew they would and they didn’t let us down. Folkestone & Hythe District Council have [...]

Part 3: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities

January 4, 2020 // 4 Comments

In this final piece (for now) we look at at very specific part of the time line in the P & R potential £1.5 million pound fraud which came about as a result of failings [...]

Part 2: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Financial Irregularities.

January 2, 2020 // 5 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council are looking for a new statutory s151 Officer. According to the Candidate Breifing Pack on Penna Recruitment & the [...]

One fifth of Council Housing stock not fit for purpose

September 13, 2019 // 3 Comments

On the 5th June, 2017 a report to the East Kent Housing (EKH) board (page 99) made it explicitly clear that “the level of non-decent homes currently stood at around [...]

For your eyes only: Appendix 3 Audit report for East Kent Housing (EKH) – tenant health and safety

September 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

Exclusive: The Shepwayvox Team can now publish the damning report which was restricted from the public and East Kent Housing Tenants. Over the next few days we will be coming [...]

East Kent Housing: Major failings and historic mismanagement rewarded with £110,000 a year

September 9, 2019 // 4 Comments

Appendix 3: Audit report for East Kent Housing (EKH) – tenant health and safety is a restricted document, as such it will not be available for the public to see, nor EKH [...]

Serious disrepair and safety issues in Folkestone & Hythe District Council housing stock

July 17, 2019 // 7 Comments

“I feel trapped.” “Nobody is listening to me – that’s what it feels like.” “My mental health is going downhill rapidly due to this,” are just some of [...]

Further issues of possible non-compliance by East Kent Housing emerge

July 3, 2019 // 2 Comments

An East Kent Internal Audit makes clear there are justifiable concerns over the gas safety certificates fiasco. The preliminary findings of the audit into East Kent Housing, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council senior management handsomely rewarded for failure

June 30, 2019 // 2 Comments

The top three tiers of management at Folkestone & Hythe District Council (F&HDC) have been handsomely rewarded for their failure to manage and oversee the Swale [...]

The Long Read: All 4 East Kent Chief Executives should resign over Gas Safety Certificate fiasco

June 22, 2019 // 9 Comments

All Cllrs of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe & Thanet District Councils ought to bring a motion before their respective full councils regarding the lack of [...]

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