Tim Prater

Council withdraw car parking charging proposals for Folkestone, Sandgate, Hythe & New Romney High Streets.

November 15, 2023 // 1 Comment

Parking in our district is currently in the headlines. But something most of you didn’t know, and don’t know, is the Council is yet again in breach of the law and [...]

Green led FHDC is failing to comply with Environmental Protection Act 1990 says auditor.

September 6, 2023 // 3 Comments

Updated: 8 Sept 2023 @10:25am Damning evidence in an independent Audit report concludes that Folkestone & Hythe District Council, a Green led council, is failing in its [...]

Part 2: Are they so different?

August 30, 2023 // 4 Comments

Last year, we as a team reminded the Council time and again about their failure to publish the Procurement card transactions data. Eventually after much huffing and puffing, [...]

Are they so different?

August 27, 2023 // 2 Comments

On the 21 June, the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance & Governance Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem), told the world the newly elected administration of Folkestone [...]

Sunningdale House Developments Ltd & Princes Parade

August 13, 2023 // 2 Comments

In the sunniest January since 1959, Folkestone & Hythe District agreed Sunningdale House Developments Ltd (Sunningdale House) had won the contract to deliver the proposed [...]

Council’s internal audits show things are getting worse.

July 13, 2023 // 3 Comments

Evidence has emerged over time that Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s internal controls have gone from good to bad. Each year an annual internal report is [...]

Council vote to move to committee system, with a little help from ice cream

June 23, 2023 // 5 Comments

There is so we are told, no such things as a dumb question. So here’s a question: Who likes Ice cream? We know Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) Deputy Leader and Cabinet [...]

Council fail to publish draft accounts by deadline for second year in a row.

June 1, 2023 // 6 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, have failed to publish their draft statement of accounts for 2022/23, by the statutory deadline of 31 May, 2023. This is the second [...]

Cllrs, Social Housing Tenants & Visitors equality rights broken by Council

May 27, 2023 // 2 Comments

One of these days, you the good people of Folkestone & Hythe District are going to get good local government – and you are not going to like it. But while [...]

Solutions to lower your Council Tax by £128

March 24, 2023 // 6 Comments

This is a Guest Post Hello peps, today I am going to explain how it is possible to lower your Council Tax, and put some money away into the Council’s piggy bank more [...]

Council company Oportunitas will not generate sufficient profit to meet its operating costs until 2031

March 23, 2023 // 5 Comments

Updated 23/03/23 @ 18:30 Back in Sept 2022 we pointed out that Oportunitas Limited a company wholly owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council was incorporated [...]

Just for the record

March 16, 2023 // 13 Comments

This is a guest post For the record and for clarity, my name is Bryan Rylands (pictured). I am the public face of The Shepway Vox Team. I am one of nine members of the [...]

Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects

February 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]

SAGA Enbrook site intended for future housing.

February 7, 2023 // 4 Comments

Updated: 08/02/23 @ 17:55 No doubt you’ve heard, and possibly read, SAGA is to close its Kent headquarters at Enbrook (Sandgate) due to the changes in working [...]

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 [...]

Council to press on with controversial Princes Parade redevelopment

December 16, 2022 // 1 Comment

Members should note however that there is a critical path which would need to be followed and this does not allow for any slippage, delay, or process frustration. Ever since [...]

Cost of Living Crisis – Yet more locals to become migrants due to being priced out of the local rental market.

October 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

A Bureau of Investigative Journalism analysis of 648 rental properties across eight districts of Kent shows 99% of those advertised over a single month (July 2022) were [...]

Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”

August 10, 2022 // 4 Comments

“This was totally foreseeable and Hythe Town Cllrs have done nothing to prevent it”, is how one residents sees the recent incursion by Travellers onto the South [...]

Do you want £50 quid of your council tax? Here’s how to do it.

August 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you like a one of £50 reduction on your council tax in the [...]

One in three calls go unanswered and Information requests haven’t met targets for last five years

July 21, 2022 // 3 Comments

Yesterday at Cabinet, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) & Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) both raised the issue around the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the council not [...]

Delays in software leads to residents frustration over £150 Council Tax rebate during cost of living crisis.

May 26, 2022 // 4 Comments

Updated May 26 @ 16:35 On the 3rd Feb 2022, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £150 council tax rebate for millions of households to help with soaring energy bills. The [...]

Cllrs tax free travel and annual financial uplift on their allowances

April 14, 2022 // 1 Comment

Hidden away in Part 9/82 of Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s current Constitution, it states: The allowances shall be automatically adjusted, annually, by [...]

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 [...]

99% of claimants for Council Tax Reduction are exceedingly honest.

September 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

A Shepway Vox Team investigation has discovered that 10,203 people have had their claims for Council Tax reduction processed by an algorithm and not informed by Folkestone [...]

Ain’t no rest for the wicked

July 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

Many of you already know Folkestone & Hythe District Council have had the highest council tax of all Kent local authorities for the last eighteen years. Council tax is [...]

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