Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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No, No, No, can't take any more!!!!! New Green Waste charge AND an increase in Council Tax as well AND the higher Parking Charges, there goes my saving on the water meter we have just had installed
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 21.Agree.............green waste charge is big issue in the `sticks`......
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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But not that big in my ward,but it is still an increase if you have it.As I said the only green waste I have is a Council tree that sheds its leave into my garden.
My next door neighbour likes a large hedge and he always cuts it and disposes of the leaves and branches.Funnily enough if the hedge is 25-30 years old it was probably planted by Paul Watkins as he used to live in that house.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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one must assume that there is one of those blue heritage plaques outside john.
it goes without saying that paul would never dispose of garden waste by throwing it over your side.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Why Reg? Plenty of room in the country to compost, we do in our garden....
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Council tax; green waste collection; car-parking are all separate issues.
Not all car-parking is going up and where it does, it's not by much and hasn't gone up for ages.
Green-waste is only payable by those who choose to use it; if you don't want to pay, use a composter - healthier too, for you and your plants.
An increase in 11p per week is minimal to the public; to the Council, it's a very useful sum.
Now that's quite simple isn't it ?
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no wonder so many k.c.c employees are up in arms when their jobs are under threat.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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There certainly isn't that that level of money available for senior offices at DDC. I haven't checked what percentage rise in the KCC part of the rates is increasing, probably more than DDC's.
Roger
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Im sure Paul or John can clarify but I read it as no increase in KCC precept .
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Quite right Sue...so glad somebody spotted the mistake. My mistake.
It is still a rise of about £6 yearly, but down to DDC
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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11p per week - 52 weeks, is really nothing to grumble about - less than one packet of cigarettes, less than two pints of beer or lager.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I remember a war-time movie set in on one of the islands in the Mediterranean that had one local partisan character that measured distance in cigarettes. [Much as Claire might in Chicken Curries?]
The beer analogy touches on other aspects of local taxation in that we all know where the beer ends up. On the other hand if the DDC takes another two pints a year out of the local economy per household this might mean one fewer public house paying it's share. It's hard to see where your drive for municipal sobriety could end Roger. Many men our age lose the odd hair to the comb, but plenty more where that came from, you say?
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Shouldn't we be complaining that the DDC precept is too LOW ?? It has only caused the problem to become cumulatively worse over the years and leaving them in an awkward financial position
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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Thirty five pence a ciggy Roger .Ive just smoked two weeks council increase in five minutes
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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well well roger
having not posted it first you certainly warmly support the rises.
whilst the council tax increase by DDC may seem small, you do have to take into account all the other steep increases as john says, all monies that have to be found no matter how you dress it up.
we still have increases as john says of all the others police, fire etc so a costly year.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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welcome back keith i hope you have not picked up any nasty habits from your sojourn in scotland.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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many bad habits howard lol
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I do support the rise of 11 pence per week in the DDCs Council Tax.
I also agree with Scotchie that for too long Dover had been kept a (very) low council tax area; kept artificially low so now it can't be raised to a level where services can be markedly improved and staff kept on.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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when all the council tax comes into being with all the increases it will be interesting to see publiuc reaction then
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