Yes, well people better start to plan now because the next thing going up will be interest rates. History is about to be repeated, like it always has.
Council tax
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Yes, well people better start to plan now because the next thing going up will be interest rates. History is about to be repeated, like it always has.
Caporegime
3% here, South Ribble.
Extra £30 to take your garden waste this year as well.
Extra £30 to take your garden waste this year as well.
Permabanned
Assume most people are subject to the stealth council taxes now, ie garden waste is now £50 a year. Despite paying £2902.38 a year already......
Is this just to get around limits on raising council tax?
delete as appropriate "bloody Brexit/bloody Tories/bloody mismanaged civil service/bloody covid"
Is this just to get around limits on raising council tax?
delete as appropriate "bloody Brexit/bloody Tories/bloody mismanaged civil service/bloody covid"
Council tax is getting silly now. It was silly before, now its getting 'lulwut?' silly.
Associate
I noticed the Police and Crime Commissioner has increased their costs nearly 7% in my area - its laughable that they can get away with these increases when nothing has improved in terms of services and we have access to more automation etc today than we did 10 years ago when we didn't have a Police and Crime Comissioner
Soldato
My council tax is £180 a month over 10 months 
Seems quite pricey for a 2 bed flat
Seems quite pricey for a 2 bed flat
Soldato
No increase for me.
You are paying more than I am, and I live in Herts.
Herts Council - up 2%
General Expense - up 2.8%
Social - up 2%
Special Expense - up 2.7%
P&Cc - up 7.6%
edit: bin charge comes in this year too I think.
We have fortnightly collections on all bins as well, forgot that. Some bins are grim in summer.
Same, however ours are staggered at the moment which makes it slightly less 'bad'. Recycling one week, landfill the next.
What does the bin charge entail?
It's a slippery slope if councils start reducing frequency of services, or charging outside of council tax for bin collections. It'll just encourage more people to fly tip, or dump waste in public bins.
3.8 percent overall increase for me (Cardiff CC)
Lowest I've seen compared to people I know in England
Up to 1952 for band E per year
Bins for me is
Recycling weekly
Food weekly
General fortnightly
Green bin once a month
Apparently this increase covers 1/3 of a 15mln shortfall. No doubt dying retail will make this worse
Lowest I've seen compared to people I know in England
Up to 1952 for band E per year
Bins for me is
Recycling weekly
Food weekly
General fortnightly
Green bin once a month
Apparently this increase covers 1/3 of a 15mln shortfall. No doubt dying retail will make this worse
Soldato
They can't start charging for normal bin collections. That's a core council service which they must provide. Some charge for garden waste bins because that's an additional service which you can opt into.
Extra fee for green waste. Everyone currently gets one green bin for 'free' but going forwards its a totally separate chargeable service. I think each additional green bin is already £60 a year...some of the big houses here have 3 or 4.
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Anotber 5% rise for us. Makes sense as they are cutting back services and cutting budgets in some current ongoing services.
Oh i would imagine once services start stretching that might be a core service that either severely reduces in frequency (resulting in the same problems i mentioned), or removed entirely.
We don't have an extra charge for green bins, as they also use them for collecting food waste. I don't know the statistics, but i would have almost expected "green waste" to have been a money maker for councils - turning it all into compost, and most of all not having to pay for landfill.
our food goes to a biodigester (I think) but no idea if it makes money. Wonder where green bin goes
If there's one thing to get people riled up, it's talking about bin collections. Had a fair few moans amd rants about missed collections and how full you can fill a bin!
