Crazyface
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we used to use it to swan off to portugal for a few days. Flights £100, car hire £20, accomodation £100. Sun for four days!!!!!
Council tax
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we used to use it to swan off to portugal for a few days. Flights £100, car hire £20, accomodation £100. Sun for four days!!!!!
Crazyface
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The clowns here have introduced it for this year. Take up, apparently, has been poor. Even the bin men said, chuck it in your black bin. LOL Clowns!!!! This will mean a huge increase in weight being sent to Ellesmere port for burning, therefore a huge increase in charges, and therefore they will have saved.....nowt! Also, I'll be burning my hedge clippings, as the black smoke it will produce will blow over my big fat neighbors house. Lovely.
Crazyface
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Why should we pay for something that we were getting for free? We pay more council tax BECAUSE we have gardens. Therefore....they take the green waste away BECAUSE we pay more. Also, what are we now to do with the big green recycling bins the council spent a fortune on?
bobmac
Major Champion
We've got 4 bins.
Brown...garden waste
green...recycling
purple...cardboard
black...everything else
nickjdavis
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I'd say our brown bin is free but obviously it isn't...the charge will be built in to our Council Tax somewhere along the way....I was just surprised that some places charge you for the brown bin separately....but i guess that's good if you have the option of not having one. Our brown bin gets filled up most weeks during the summer and if I dont book a dump trip each weekend the council ring me up and ask me if I'm unwell.
ADB
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£80 in Sussex
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
£80 in Sussex
£104 in Havering
Piece
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Fence blew down the other week in the storms. Bill received is very close to the council tax break amount. 
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
I am but Missis T isn’t
Fromtherough
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Used to enjoy our ‘free’ months. However, our estate was recently handed over by the builders. A management company service annual charge now kicks in. They get paid quite a lot (approx 1 month council tax) for very little, meaning we now effectively only get one free month as it feels like council tax by a private company.
Neilds
Assistant Pro
My Mrs works for the local county council and last week she said they had sent out over 8000 reminders to people who were behind on their council tax. And I am sur eshe has also said that the council are owed over £25 million in CT Wonder if these people are at the front of the queue when they complain about what the council can't do
Wonder if these people are at the front of the queue when they complain about what the council can't do
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
There in lies why Poll Tax failed and why single people like myself pay for all the services those with big families use.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
The irony of the poll tax is it was actually a fairer form of tax than what council tax has become ..
harpo_72
Journeyman Pro
We have the same issue, representative came out and she asked me what they were responsible for.. I said I wasn’t too sure as I had never seen them do anything or even required them .. so I considered the driveway to be a ransom strip.
As for council tax, yeah that’s escalated up but a few councils invested in Icelandic banks and lost a fortune.. question is where did they get the excess to invest? Should it not be a balancing exercise.. also wage structure needs to be reassessed.. the bin men break the bins because they are rushing or stressed .. costs me a new bin plus services charge .. the roads are appalling because they refill the potholes when they are wet so they will pop out again ..
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Our council charges to empty the brown bin also. It used to be £40 then went up to 50 and I think 60 this year so I cancelled it. The minimal amount of gardening we do, we can actually afford to have a year off and get it collected the year after - since it composts itself and drops down lower over time.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Totally agree and agreed with it from the off.
and was
Just because someone owns a larger house does not mean they have a larger income of lots of capital and are receiving no extra services.
However better watch out for this being seen as political.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Doing it on value was ridiculous, me and my colleague live 5 min drive apart, his house is smaller than mine even before I extended it. I'm band d he is c because of the value back then just because his postcode is deemed to be near the big houses in the area
He keeps trying to get it changed to no avail
Fade and Die
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Nah it’s only £70… mind you it was only £50 in 2020!
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Is it? It's 4.99% no? £2070 it was in 2023 so going up 104? Or it is because of the London part aswell takes it up
