Tim Prater

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

March 23, 2023 // 6 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 [...]

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s £40 million pound waste contract fiasco

June 4, 2021 // 4 Comments

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.

May 7, 2021 // 6 Comments

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

April 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

April 15, 2021 // 4 Comments

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

March 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

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

February 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

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

December 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

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?

November 28, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

November 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

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

August 16, 2020 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

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