howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
how many posters thought the same as me, that rent collected from council tenants went straight back to our local authority to spend on maintenance and repairs and such like?
it transpires that a third of this dosh collected from the council tenants of south east england is sent to other parts of the country, for others to spend.
this image of the south east is so dated, i think that people in whitehall that travel home at the end of the day to the leafy suburbs of berkshire, surrey and hants have never heard of places like st rads, buckie estate and aycliffe.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
#2
Its not just Council rents. Business rates too - we get only a small proportion of what is collected locally.
Guest 648- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 258
#3
Two good postings there.Local government is hard to understand.Some years ago rules came into place which meant local councils could not put up the rents more than inflation and in some cases by a further 1%.This has meant with national government taking a huge slice of the rents we collect it is hard to balance the books.We have to improve all our homes to a decent standard by 2010.This is an extra burden for your local council.My portfolio is very demanding .