How much has your council tax gone up this year?

So the details have just been finalised.

4.99% increase.

They are also charging £40 per year for green waste (+20 per year for every additional bin). They are collecting all of the green coloured 'green waste' bins and replacing with brown bins for those who pay the money - seems a bit crackers to me because this would only really work for the first year if they are using it to identify who has paid/not paid.

Also reducing household waste to fortnightly collection but issuing those with 3 or more people in the household with a new larger bin.
 
Almost all the money goes on adult social care.

This is from a few years ago and shows up to 2020 which is 57%... but you can see how that number is increasing. The latest report I heard in the broadcast news is that figure is now as high as 80% for some councils.


The system is totally broken. You cannot have a publicly funded pool of diverse commitments where some spending is so heavily protected at the expense of almost everything else.

We're only a few years from crunch time.
 
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Had the letter through as well, up 4.99% so now £325 a month. It would be a slightly easier pill to swallow if everything wasn't just a bit **** currently.

The local park by us has been closed for almost 3 months now because one of the 20 year swings collapsed and they're concerned the rest of the rusty construction might fall through the centre of the earth. The libraries hours have reduced on the Saturday so for those of us that work 5 days a week and only get one day to go (because they also got rid of Sunday mornings) we now have an even tighter window of time to go at the weekend with the kid.

Highway services / road maintenance is just a given, the number of pot holes and road closures are just never ending.

We pay so much now and you see so little for it.
 
cheesefest said:
Band A single adult. Was £106 a month. Now £111.

Still nothing from council how they are going to deal with families who are going to struggle with putting 2 weeks of rubbish in a 140 litre bin
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For someone that lives alone, you seem to care an awful lot about families and their bin capacities which doesn't affect you? :confused:

Don't you think you have enough drama in your life just getting up in the morning?
 
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