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Because (i believe) Brown bin collections were never factored into the council tax charge in the first place.Whatever, my brown bin waste goes in the green anyway. Why didn't council tax go down when bins went to fortnightly?
50p a month or 25p per collection if you use it every fortnight (which I appreciate that most people don't).After a meeting on Tuesday 7th November, it has been announced that the cost of emptying the garden waste bins will increase next year from £36 to £42.
Parking charges for Evenings and Sundays will also increase from £1.00 to £1.10.
More information shortly.
But every bin went fortnightly, so we paid more for half the collections?Because (i believe) Brown bin collections were never factored into the council tax charge in the first place.
But it all went to a good cause so stop ya moaning...But every bin went fortnightly, so we paid more for half the collections?
If you want the government to fund the councils better, then you have to be prepared to pay higher taxes.If we had a properly funded council.... most of the council's income comes from the Government which has been cutting it year after year after year; indeed, according to this webpage, by 40% since 2010. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-government-funding-england , then whether we would need to be charged for "additional" services such as brown bin collection is perhaps questionable.
I suppose we could always as our MP to try to do something about it.....
Speaking about the increase in garden waste recycling, Councillor Cooke seemed to blame the previous administration for not increasing the fees last year, which have forced a larger increase this year. He said:“In general, the schedule shows an increase of around six per cent, some slightly higher due to rounding, and of course, we do have to round up with some charges in some cases, and that could be to the nearest 10p; £1 or £10 and that can distort the increase. Some charges, of course, are governed by external regulations, we have no control over these charges.”
The complete fees and charges changes have to be agreed upon by the full council before being made available publicly on the Stafford Borough Council website.“That reflects a planned increase in the 23/24 budget cycle that was planned before the administration changed.
“So that is a planned increase, also the fact is last year the price was frozen, I can’t think why it happened to be frozen in that particular year, but I’m sure people might guess. That means that instead of it rising incrementally over a couple of years, you have to scale a very high cliff because no extra was charged the year before.”
It's the wealthiest that should be paying higher taxes but that's not going to happen under a Tory government.If you want the government to fund the councils better, then you have to be prepared to pay higher taxes.
And trust the government won't just splurge those taxes on yet more bungs to their mates.
It's not going to happen under any governmentIt's the wealthiest that should be paying higher taxes but that's not going to happen under a Tory government.
It would if we had a proper Labour government like 1945 to 1951.It's not going to happen under any government
I will take a punt on some other people, worth a try even if it's just a slightly less odorous version of dispicable.It's not going to happen under any government
Because (i believe) Brown bin collections were never factored into the council tax charge in the first place.
After a meeting on Tuesday 7th November, it has been announced that the cost of emptying the garden waste bins will increase next year from £36 to £42.
Parking charges for Evenings and Sundays will also increase from £1.00 to £1.10.
More information shortly.
Because… yeah I dunno. Especially during covid when cardboard recycling was peaking due to everyone being stuck at homeI still don't understand why they replaced that paper box with the useless paper blue bag, all they get now on recycling day is a bag of cardboard and paper mush