How much has your council tax gone up this year?

£82 a month to £93 single occupancy flat, getting a bit on the expensive side considering what we get for the money.

1 bin collection every couple weeks and a useless council.

I'd like to know where the £1060 for the council actually goes, I get the adult social care, police and fire side of it, happy to pay those.
 
MadMossy said:
£82 a month to £93 single occupancy flat, getting a bit on the expensive side considering what we get for the money.

1 bin collection every couple weeks and a useless council.

I'd like to know where the £1060 for the council actually goes, I get the adult social care, police and fire side of it, happy to pay those.
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I read that our adult social care money is going to pay off the councils debt…. Great :)
 
Stretch said:
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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I've raised this point a few times. If you look at the spending on adult social care over the last 10 years it just keeps going up. Basically it's unsustainable. If we continue to see the same rate increases, in 10 years time your council tax could be another £100-200 a month higher.

a) either funding for adult social care needs to come from elsewhere
b) council's need to scale back how much they offer with adult social care
c) they charge the adults who need the social care
 
It's going to be 6pc here.
Not had letter as Cardiff CC are always late for some reason.

But if it is 6pc as reported will be:

2090 to 2215
Or
175ppm to 185ppm

Band E, Cardiff


If I end up moving within Wales I will certainly be looking at trying to keep in the same price band. As jumps go up quite significantly after E.
And I expect 5-10pc rises every year at least from now.
 
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Stretch said:
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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Yeah it's only going to get more expensive. Especially with state of most people's pensions, and the state pension age going up, and population being more unhealthy.


I have no idea how some of the properly busy councils who are selling everything aren't going to be in the same situation year on year.
 
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Semple said:
I've raised this point a few times. If you look at the spending on adult social care over the last 10 years it just keeps going up. Basically it's unsustainable. If we continue to see the same rate increases, in 10 years time your council tax could be another £100-200 a month higher.

a) either funding for adult social care needs to come from elsewhere
b) council's need to scale back how much they offer with adult social care
c) they charge the adults who need the social care
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At the very least it should be funded centrally through the NHS. It’s a huge responsibility and councils are way out of their depth.
 
Richie said:
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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Everyone in the council area I know are not happy with the changes plus many more on the local FB groups due to increasing fly tipping and potentially vermin.
 
I'm sure Wolverhampton City Council are pleased with the income from taxis which are licenced there but not doing business there.

From driving about, I noticed that about 1 in 3-4 taxis are Wolverhampton Council registered.

Apparently their licences are cheaper and less stringent than other councils.
 
cheesefest said:
I'm sure Wolverhampton City Council are pleased with the income from taxis which are licenced there but not doing business there.

From driving about, I noticed that about 1 in 3-4 taxis are Wolverhampton Council registered.

Apparently their licences are cheaper and less stringent than other councils.
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Not less stringent, but definitely cheaper. I think they're almost half the cost of what they are in Manchester. I know the council are looking at ways of preventing non-manchester registered taxis from operating here.
 
Stafford, band A, going up 4.7% to £1385. +£45 gardening bin levy, up from £36 last year.

Social care gets - £148
Police - £182
Fire dept - £58

This leaves behind a bulk of £997. I know... bin collections, lighting, road works etc, but the rest going to middle managers seem a bit disproportionate to me. It's a problem in the NHS too, and I work in the NHS!
 
We got our CT through yesterday.

It's gone up 5.2%, with the green bins now being an optional extra because apparently the previous elected council's decision not to raise CT last year has come back and bitten them in the balance.

So it's in effect gone up about 6-7% for us as I've had to book us for two green bins as I suspect my brother in law down the road won't be paying for one (he has no real garden). I suspect we're about to see a lot of fly tipping of garden waste, and a lot of the bits that people used to do to clean up the council greenery near their houses won't get done if it's possibly going to cost them to do it (my parents used to trim the council hedge next to their house, and my brother in law used his green bin to clean up the leaves from council trees).
 
cheesefest said:
I'm sure Wolverhampton City Council are pleased with the income from taxis which are licenced there but not doing business there.

From driving about, I noticed that about 1 in 3-4 taxis are Wolverhampton Council registered.

Apparently their licences are cheaper and less stringent than other councils.
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As of Sept 2023 Wolvo had issued 56,000 taxi licences. 22,000 of them between April 2023 and August. In that period there were only 93 working days....

On March 1st 2024 Wolvo opened up a further 30,000 licences for application.

Many MPs are trying desparately for a change in the law to stop this and revert back to the regulation that states working in plated area only.
 
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