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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 5, 2022 11:51:30 GMT 1
whilst this makes sense and brings spending back to a local level were councils have been underfunded, were ever you look everything is going up at an alarming rate, it also depends on how well your council is run and are they value for money. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11392297/Chancellor-Jeremy-Hunt-eyes-plans-allow-town-halls-increase-annual-bills.html"Council tax bills could soar next year under government plans to ease the pressure on public finances. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is looking at relaxing the decade-long cap that currently allows town halls to increase their annual bills by just 2 per cent a year for their core services. Although the move would not directly raise money for the Treasury, officials believe it could allow Mr Hunt to squeeze central funding to local authorities, as they would then be able to make up the difference from local council tax payers." |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2022 14:13:41 GMT 1
whilst this makes sense and brings spending back to a local level were councils have been underfunded, were ever you look everything is going up at an alarming rate, it also depends on how well your council is run and are they value for money. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11392297/Chancellor-Jeremy-Hunt-eyes-plans-allow-town-halls-increase-annual-bills.html"Council tax bills could soar next year under government plans to ease the pressure on public finances. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is looking at relaxing the decade-long cap that currently allows town halls to increase their annual bills by just 2 per cent a year for their core services. Although the move would not directly raise money for the Treasury, officials believe it could allow Mr Hunt to squeeze central funding to local authorities, as they would then be able to make up the difference from local council tax payers." Glad I live in Telford rather than Shropshire, lowest council tax in the West Midlands and frozen until 2024. I dread to think how much Shropshire council will put their bills up by. |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 5, 2022 17:30:05 GMT 1
whilst this makes sense and brings spending back to a local level were councils have been underfunded, were ever you look everything is going up at an alarming rate, it also depends on how well your council is run and are they value for money. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11392297/Chancellor-Jeremy-Hunt-eyes-plans-allow-town-halls-increase-annual-bills.html"Council tax bills could soar next year under government plans to ease the pressure on public finances. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is looking at relaxing the decade-long cap that currently allows town halls to increase their annual bills by just 2 per cent a year for their core services. Although the move would not directly raise money for the Treasury, officials believe it could allow Mr Hunt to squeeze central funding to local authorities, as they would then be able to make up the difference from local council tax payers." Glad I live in Telford rather than Shropshire, lowest council tax in the West Midlands and frozen until 2024. I dread to think how much Shropshire council will put their bills up by. lucky you ; i think the council will try to go for as much as they can i dont know if this policy if it happens has an upper limit on how much they can raise the council by. |
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Post by kenwood on Nov 7, 2022 18:06:43 GMT 1
People in Shropshire should be looking at this “proposal “ with a great deal of trepidation .
The relaxation of the cap on council bills would , of course , mean that the government could deflect any criticism of them under funding local government .
The onus would quite obviously lie with local Councils . As far as we are concerned in sunny Shropshire we are looking at a considerable overspend on the NW Relief Road project.
Unless our Council are able to obtain additional funding then any shortfall would have to be met through Council Tax . With the possibility of a relaxation of the cap then bingo , guess who will end up paying . Never mind keeping services functioning , this white elephant of a road will take priority . Why ? because our Council are already up to their necks in a financial mire of their own making , loads of dosh already spent and not a inch of road layed. Bit like HS2.
The good people of Shropshire will not be happy , particularly those living in say South Shropshire .
Wonder what our MP thinks of this situation .
Never mind worrying about the cost of food or heating , make the most of it, get the car out and drive up and down this new road . May as well get your money’s worth !😂😂
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 9, 2022 10:04:00 GMT 1
is the council in debt , i thought we were but when i try to gogle it all i get are the counciul debt recovery site!
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Post by kenwood on Dec 29, 2022 11:57:12 GMT 1
I was wrong about the NW Relief Road proposal .
Our fine Council will, of course , be able to fund this extravagance without clobbering council tax payers too much.
How come? Well , this is a pointer toward how things will materialise .
There is a proposal to build more homes off Gains Park Way on land between Gains Park and the Welshpool Road up to Churncote Island . Although Bicton Parish Council have raised concerns citing drainage issues and the fact that there will be problems with traffic on Churncote Island , the Council look very likely to approve this application at their planning meeting or whatever on 10th January.
Now, here’s the rub, the applicants will be expected to make a financial contribution to Shrewsburys NW Relief Road.
I just wonder if this “ financial contribution “will apply to all planning proposals for housing in Shrewsbury in order to mitigate against the huge costs stacking up against the Relef Road debacle.
Perhaps it could be that further applications will , of course , be judged on merit and maybe seen as a cash cow for the Council with contributions kindly required for other purposes . I will leave you to guess what these other purposes could be !
Finally , I hear that the housing developments on the Welshpool Road between Shepherds Lane and Calcott Lane have come to a halt . This may be temporary but nothing to do with the Christmas / New Year break.
I am told that houses on these two developments aren’t selling because people can’t afford or acquire mortgages in this current financial climate .Obviously the developers hoping to build off Gains Park don’t see this as a problem but we will have to wait and see .
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Post by frankwellshrews on Dec 29, 2022 12:17:45 GMT 1
Relaxing the cap on council tax is classic tory policy. It's essentially batting responsibility for unpopular tax and spend decisions on to the public sector and shifting the tax burden to pay for badly underfunded local services from the national level (where we should be looking to collect more tax from large corporates) to individuals on an extremely non progressive basis.
It will also exacerbate inequality between wealthy areas (which, like London boroughs, ironically tend to have lower council tax due to better levels of rates and fees and charges being collected) and poorer areas where councils are going to be increasingly reliant on soaking their electors to pay for services yet there'll be no prizes for guessing where the public, spurred on by the government's pet media outlets, will choose to place the blame.
The Conservatives are at best utterly economically illiterate and at worst hopelessly corrupt (with the reality probably sitting somewhere in the middle). The sooner Shropshire wakes up and kicks these crooks out at every level the better.
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Post by martinshrew on Dec 29, 2022 12:18:02 GMT 1
I was told those houses start at £300k for a 3 bed with a box room.
Never going to sell. 3+ mile from town for starters.
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Post by frankwellshrews on Dec 29, 2022 12:25:32 GMT 1
I was told those houses start at £300k for a 3 bed with a box room. Never going to sell. 3+ mile from town for starters. This is the problem with the property delusion this country suffers from though; the belief prices can just keep rising ad infinitum with no link to wages. At some point it always rolls back and we're about to see that over the next couple of years. |
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