Council Tax 2020 -21.

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by Kat11

We should have a who’s got the biggest council tax bill competition to lighten the pain? 😂

Kat

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Trouble is nobody wants to win that competition!

[PoohBears#1fan]

Originally Posted by Kat11

We should have a who’s got the biggest council tax bill competition to lighten the pain? 😂

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I can win lowest as have just had a bill for zero on a vacant property!

[loves2plan]

£1585 a year for us, which has gone up, but still a lot lower than others are paying by the looks of it.

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by PoohBears#1fan

Ours do this, we have 3 wheelie bins (rubbish, recycling and garden waste) the main 2 are alternated weekly with garden rubbish being fortnightly.

This means that you end up IN the recycling bin jumping everything down as there's too much in there after around 11/12 days, the general rubbish bin is disgusting in the summer, 2 weeks is far too long for food waste to be left.

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Our Council gives us food caddies. Emptied every week and they supply biodegradable food bags.
So a small caddy on the kitchen floor, emptied every day into the bigger one on the drive.

Really good system I must say. It all gets 'cooked up' and used as compost in local Parks.

As it's just us 2 now the fortnightly bin collection is fine. I struggle to fill the bin but I do like to put old bricks and lumps of concrete in there to top it up.

[munmun]

£3007 up £20 from last year

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by munmun

£3007 up £20 from last year

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Not a nice figure to start with, but heck thats a very small rise to impose.

[Shani]

Haven't had our renewal yet, but Council have confirmed 9.5% increase. Town Council and Police will go up by the same amount.

We're already on 3 weekly waste collection (2 weekly green garden and weekly recycling) and they want to increase general waste to 4 weekly. As a family of 5 that recycle everything we can, we still struggle hugely and regularly have to take big black bags to my mother in law's house.

[Tinkerbell]

Ours is €300 a year... so I win the cheapest

Rubbish has to be taken to central bins similar to the larger bins in cities like Brighton

We live 8miles from the nearest house, no street lights, no postal deliveries. Taxes paid in the village do not go to the central government they stay within the local village. We decide how they’re spent

[ROBBOTOO]

Ours is up by £108 to £2316. With water on top of that too then.

We used to have fortnightly bin collections, one week recycling the other general waste but last year they moved it back to every week and changed our general waste bin for a much smaller one. However they have also closed our recycling centre 2 days of the week now to save money, so anyone who needs to go the dump has to queue even longer now as there are less days for everyone to be able to go, so it can be manic! Plus they now charge too if you take certain things, ie garden soil etc.

[Scaramouche]

For future reference, where do you guys all live?! I’d like to avoid moving there in the future 😂.

Ours has gone up by £5 a month and is still somewhere in the £1300 bracket.