Hythe Town Cllrs “couldn’t organize a p*ss up in a brewery”
“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 [...]
Tim Prater
Do you want £50 quid of your council tax? Here’s how to do it.
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
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.
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
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
“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.
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
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 [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco
It’s a £40 million pound fiasco. For the second time in less than six weeks Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been forced to apologise for the poor service [...]
Ex Mayor gets Dick out.
Ex Mayor of Folkestone Cllr Jackie Meade (Lab) May 2019/May20 ousted incumbent Kent County Council Tory Cllr Dick Pascoe, and took the Folkestone East seat in the KCC [...]
“Our council is broken at best” says ePetition campaigner
Almost twenty years after our Council introduced a Cabinet system in the year 2000, – Cllr Tim Prater on the 25th Sept 2019, put forward the following motion for the [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council buy Ship Street site twice
Updated: 17/04/21 @08:42 On the 20th October 2019, Kentonline Folkestone section declared that Folkestone & Hythe District Council had bought the former Gasworks site at [...]
Liberal Democrats forget they are responsible for residents having Highest Council Tax in Kent
So on the 24th Feb 2021, Folkestone & Hythe District Council voted to raise the district part of Council Tax by 1.99%. This means band per band our Council has the [...]
Hypocrisy by District and Kent County Cllrs over Council Tax
For those of you not aware, Council tax debt is the most common debt seen by Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) advisers. The CAB estimated in the first 3 months of Coronavirus, [...]
Hythe Town Council’s £50,000 deficit and the failed double glazing salesman wins Princes Parade battle
It’s got messy, but then there always was the possibility it would. The Save Princes Parade has lost its latest and last appeal, while Hythe Town Council’s [...]
Grant Fraud at The Grand?
As time runs out on Hallam Estates, owners of the Grand, we hear of yet another cause for anxiety for its director Robert Moss (below left) , and shadow director Michael [...]
Inheritance, not work, will become the main route for home ownership in our district
In early January 2018, LUC published the Proposed Submission Sustainability Appraisal Report – Non-Technical Summary – for Folkestone & Hythe District Council. At [...]
28% of all Households in the district are claiming Council Tax Reduction
Figures revealed by Folkestone & Hythe District Council Cabinet Member, Tim Prater, make it clear that 28% of chargeable households for Council tax are in receipt of [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Council issue £6.2 million worth of contracts bypassing normal tendering processes
£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
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 [...]
The Long Read: Planning excites passion.
Planning has always been the hottest of all local government topics. It’s the one most likely to stir the passions of local people and yet no sooner have those passions [...]
Cllr David Wimble Committed Fraud
Updated: 20:30am 23/07/20 Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured), Cabinet Member for the District Economy for Folkestone & Hythe District Council committed fraud by making [...]
East Kent Housing “run on servers and software which are NOT compliant with the most basic data safety standards”
“As I understand it East Kent Housing (EKH) is being run from an unsupported two versions owned, obsolete version of Northgate software which is hosted on servers which [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Council Refuse Cllrs to See the Legal Advice on Otterpool Delivery Vehicle.
In our last post about Otterpool Park we spoke about the development vehicle – Otterpool Park Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) and its set up. It’s clear that [...]
Hythe Anxiety
As can be seen in Private Eye Magazine, Page 16, Rotten Boroughs, Issue No 1515 7th Feb – 20 Feb 2020 We’d like to say thank you to the person/s who sent this to [...]