Tonbridge & Malling

Kent and Medway Food Parcel Crisis: Trussell Data Exposes Hunger Across Every Council

March 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

If anyone in Kent and Medway still wants to pretend the cost-of-living crisis is basically over, the numbers have brought a shovel and are digging up that fantasy. In the [...]

Kent Wood-Burner Pollution: 78,380 Estimated Stoves and the Clean Air Powers Councils Aren’t Using

March 5, 2026 // 0 Comments

A set of EPC-based estimates, circulated via a British Medical Jornal (BMJ) rapid response and now re-summed and charted, suggests there are roughly 78,380 domestic [...]

Rough Sleeping in Kent: Snapshot Trends and District Hotspots

March 2, 2026 // 2 Comments

On one night each autumn, Kent’s 12 district councils go out and record how many people are sleeping rough. Not in hostels. Not in night shelters. Not sofa-surfing. Just [...]

Kent Fly-Tipping: Incidents Rise While Enforcement Varies Widely Between Councils

February 26, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent is the Garden of England. It is also, judging by the latest Defra flytipping data for 24/25, a place where far too many people treat hedgerows, lay-bys and quiet [...]

Kent Councils’ Out-of-Area Temporary Accommodation: The FOI Numbers

February 17, 2026 // 0 Comments

When a council accepts that a household is homeless, it often has to find “temporary accommodation” fast. That can mean anything from a hotel or B&B to a short-term [...]

Kent Life Expectancy by District and Constituency (2001–2024): Biggest Gaps, Biggest Gains and What It Means for Folkestone & Hythe’s Ageing Population

December 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]

Kent & Medway Homelessness by District (2022/23–2024/25): Section 21 Surges, While Thousands of Homes Sit Empty

December 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Between 2022/23 and 2024/25, every council in Kent and Medway has been feeding detailed case-by-case homelessness data to Whitehall through the national H-CLIC system – the [...]

Kent Council Debt 2024–25: Full Borrowing Breakdown for Kent County, Medway and Every District

November 24, 2025 // 1 Comment

Across Kent and Medway, council debt has not stood still over the past financial year. Between 31 December 2024 (Q3) and 30 September 2025 (Q2), total borrowing by the 14 [...]

Kent’s Most Deprived Areas: Rankings, Trends, and What Must Change

October 30, 2025 // 3 Comments

New government data shows Kent districts have slipped down England’s deprivation league over the past decade — and it has done so against the backdrop of Conservative [...]

Council Tax Bailiffs in Kent: Councils Ranked and What It Means for You

October 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

The numbers are rising. After a fall in 2023/24, Kent’s 12 district councils sharply increased the number of Council Tax debts sent to enforcement agents in 2024/25 — [...]

Most Kent Councils Off Track for 2030 Net Zero

October 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent’s local councils are under growing scrutiny for how they tackle climate change. Nearly all of them declared a “climate emergency” in 2019, pledging to cut [...]

Kent councils with the biggest debts

March 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

Several Kent councils have significantly increased their debt levels in recent months, raising concerns about the potential impact on local services and the local economy. [...]

“Schrödinger’s Councils, Heisenberg’s Chaos: Kent’s Quantum Local Government Restructure Dooms (or Saves?) All”

March 21, 2025 // 2 Comments

In a nutshell, Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) is about how the powers and funding that sit with local government are organised between councils. Think of it like [...]

Child Poverty in Kent & Medway rises across most districts over last nine years

January 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Local Child Poverty Statistics for all councils in Kent & Medway, focus on longer-term trends to understand how poverty has changed in these districts over a period [...]

Where’s the £6m of exit package money gone?

January 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

The financial exit package data paid to employees leaving any of the Councils in Kent, including Medway, over the last three years, is wrong by more than £6m. Each year in [...]

Kent councils with the biggest debts

December 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

New figures reveal which Kent councils have the highest level of debt – and those who aren’t a single penny in the red, as of Q2 2024/25. Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is [...]

No Local Authoritiy in Kent will meet their 2030 Net Zero Targets

December 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

No local authority in Kent will meet their Net Zero targets they set for either their Council estate or whole district by 2030. In fact, only two of the thirteen local [...]

Evidence suggests new housing targets numbers set by Labour government for Kent, will not be met.

December 14, 2024 // 3 Comments

Updated 09:55 – 15 Dec 2024 Is it a pipe dream? Can this Labour Government either build or start 1.5 million homes before the end of the next parliament in 2029? The [...]

Housing: Kent & Medway Local Authorities have no idea about the number of hazards in the 145,000 private rented homes

December 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Housing professionals who work for local authorities in Kent & Medway do not know how many category one hazards, or what the most common hazards are in Kent & [...]

Following Harlow would lead to paying less Council Tax for us all in Kent

August 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

The average Council tax across all 12 Kent districts is £2,043. What with a cost of living crisis unfolding before our very eyes; which will get worse in 2023, how would you [...]

Part 2: Census Population Data – Kent Districts 2011 – 2021

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

The new census data underlies what statisticians, economists, politicians and most of the population have known for years: that Britain is ageing. The same is true in Kent. [...]

Part 1 – Kent Donors to local & national Tory party

August 31, 2021 // 1 Comment

“A little bit of money goes a very long way.” Political donations have been at the heart of many a scandal, but does it matter that at local and national level, parties [...]

Long term empty properties rise above 10,000 in Kent & Medway

May 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

It’s nothing short of scandalous. More than 10,000 homes in Kent & Medway remained empty and were classified as long term vacant dwellings in 2020. In the previous [...]

Where we could create woodland in Kent

May 13, 2021 // 4 Comments

Mapping expert Tim Richards of Terra Sulis and Friends of the Earth have drawn up an “opportunity map” of areas in England that may be suitable for creating more [...]

Flytipping increases 18% after costs introduced by KCC in 2019/20

April 18, 2021 // 4 Comments

It’s official! The number of flying tipping incidences between the financial years 2018/19 and 2019/20 has risen across all twelve councils in Kent (not including [...]

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