Not so according to South Gloucestershire Council (SGC).
In their view, despite the fact that their hapless residents already pay council tax the council want taxpayers to recycle garden waste but will charge them £56 per annum for picking it up (bringing in a tidy £1.2M per annum).
Local residents will be charged £36 to pick up their green bins, and a further £20 for a bundle of ten recycling sacks.
SGC is quoted by the Taxpayers's Alliance:
"If the council ultimately chose not to charge for the green bin service, then we’d have to implement cuts that could affect valued services such as libraries."In other words the council will not cut the costs of its own bureaucracy, but are happy to threaten the services that taxpayers pay for!
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Wokingham do this too.......This year we are expected to pay an additional £60 to have our garden waste collected. Last year it was included in the rip off tax and has been for years.
ReplyDeleteIt is my opinion that this "wizzard wheeze" was dreamed up by an "officer" that wanted to get around the "no rise in rip off tax" policy of central government.
They also implemented a charge to see on an informal basis a "planning officer" of £75: for this you'd get thirty minutes and he would give a non legal, non binding(worthless) opinion on your planning idea. This would be exactly the same and with the same legal force if you had asked a bloke down the pub. These informal meetings were always free until this year again, a way around the "no rise in rip off tax" policy.
I hate the council and wish to remind them that they work for us......I get very little for my £200 a month rip off tax.
KERCHING!!! Perhaps these councils should reduce perks for executives and councillors, instead of blackmailing and ripping off the plebs er, sorry, council tax payers in this manner. Like most people, I always assumed that council taxes were meant to pay for such services, and would not expect to pay for them twice! Indeed. I wonder if this is legal? It would be interesting to have this matter sent for a judicial review.
ReplyDelete"In their view, despite the fact that their hapless residents already pay council tax the council want taxpayers to recycle garden waste but will charge them £56 per annum for picking it up (bringing in a tidy £1.2M per annum).
Local residents will be charged £36 to pick up their green bins, and a further £20 for a bundle of ten recycling sacks.
"This works out at £2 per sack! I am sure such charges will really encourage more recycling! (not) . People will either put it with their general (non-recyclable) waste or have more bonfires and dispose of it that way.