Shepway Vox are a TEAM of people who believe that truth should be spoken to power. We come from all walks of life and live in and around Folkestone & Hythe District, previously known as Shepway.
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FHDC wants to fine rogue landlords. But its new renters’ rights policy arrives 54 days late, lets the calculator wander past legal caps, flirts with spent convictions and tells tribunals what to think. Tenants need protection — not a policy that could trip over itself in court tinyurl.com/3dn4us78
New Romney could get 110 new homes. The issue isn’t only where they’re built — it’s where the water comes from. Kent is already water-stressed, Affinity has leakage problems, and household use is high. More homes need a proper water answer. shorturl.at/4xdgS
Kent Travel Saver survives scrutiny, but the £35 rise tells its own story: full-price passes go up about 6%, low-income passes almost 26%. Same bus. Same rise. Very different burden. shorturl.at/LiGtT
Child poverty is falling in Folkestone & Hythe. But once housing costs are counted, 4,540 children are still poor — most in working families. That isn’t a spreadsheet problem. It’s rent, bills, uniforms, food shops and childhoods being squeezed. tinyurl.com/ynvj55et
Cllr David Wimble was responsible for FHDCs Local Plan that pushed more homes into New Romney. Now another 110 are being proposed; he wants to put the brakes on. It’s a housing U-turn from the man who gave us the plan. We call it hypocrisy. shorturl.at/llrq6
West Wood was meant to be sold off as a holiday village: waterworld, lodges, roads, sewage works, the lot. Rank won the planning fight and survived the High Court. Then locals dug in, the clock ran out, and Kent kept the trees. Funny how forests sometimes have the last word. tinyurl.com/y4bpnd9t
Reform led KCC promised financial stability. Now they'll have to raid the piggy bank due to a £22.7m overspend and missed savings. shorturl.at/TQB5E
FHDC’s procurement cards have achieved the impossible: lunch catching a train, dinner hiding in car parking, and fish and chips wandering off without an approval trail. It’s not Watergate. It’s more battered haddock with a missing audit trail. shorturl.at/TOJXh
Cllr David Wimble backed Folkestone & Hythe’s Local Plan. Now he says he’ll fight homes on land that plan earmarked for New Romney growth. You can’t vote for the blueprint, then look shocked when someone opens the toolbox. Local Plan politics, meet local memory. shorturl.at/FW96a
Reform led KCC’s £35 Kent Travel Saver rise passed scrutiny, but low-income families take the heaviest hit: £135 to £170 is almost 26%, while full-price passes rise about 6%. Same bus. Same cash rise. Very different burden. “People of Kent” sounds thinner at the bus stop. shorturl.at/Uk0AD
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A private leisure village in a public Kent forest won the planning argument, survived the High Court and still never got built. The reason West Wood survived wasn’t simple. It was planning, law, wa…
Folkestone & Hythe District Council is being asked to approve its new private-sector housing civil penalties policy on 24 June — 54 days after key Renters’ Rights Act enforcement powers came in…
Kent County Council’s £35 Kent Travel Saver rise survived scrutiny on Thursday. But the meeting left one hard question idling at the stop: when Reform says it will put “the people of Kent at the he…
Child poverty has fallen in Folkestone & Hythe in the latest figures. That is the good news. The harder truth is that the district remains one of Kent’s highest child-poverty areas, and in the …
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A proposed 110-home scheme on farmland at New Romney has landed in the middle of Kent’s bigger water argument: how can we keep building in one of the most water-stressed parts of the country while …
Cllr David Wimble (pictured) now says he’ll fight proposals for up to 110 homes on farmland north of Cockreed Lane, New Romney. Fair enough. Residents are entitled to ask hard questions about farml…
The Tories set Kent County Council’s 2025/26 budget in February, before they lost office. Reform has run KCC since May 2025. By the end of March, the council was £22.7m over budget and Cabinet was …
Kent County Council’s £35 Kent Travel Saver rise survived scrutiny on Thursday. But the meeting left one hard question idling at the stop: when Reform says it will put “the people of Kent at the he…
Cllr David Wimble (pictured) now says he’ll fight proposals for up to 110 homes on farmland north of Cockreed Lane, New Romney. Fair enough. Residents are entitled to ask hard questions about farml…
The council’s FOI response has answered some questions about procurement-card restaurant spending. It has also given us a gastro-pub filed as transport, a missing lunch receipt, drinks with the ten…
