North Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset councils set tax bills
NORTH Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset councils have both set their budgets for the coming year at meetings tonight.
Tory-run North Somerset, which covers Portishead, Clevedon, Nailsea and Weston-super-Mare, has raised bills by 1.5 per cent, adding £17 to the current £1,150.87 bill for council services paid by Band D taxpayers.
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North Somerset Council chamber
The budget, set at a meeting at Weston Town Hall, included £9.7 million of cuts.
In Bath & North East Somerset, which includes Keynsham and Midsomer Norton, councillors voted for a council tax freeze.
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The bill for council services to a Band D taxpayer will remain at £1,201.85. Once additional charges for police, fire and parish or town councils are added in, the average Band D bill in the district will be up to £300 higher than the basic bill for services provided by Liberal Democrat-run B&NES.
Cuts of £2.5 million were also in the budget, approved by B&NES councillors at the Guildhall in Bath this evening.
Comments
by andyyandyy
Wednesday, February 20 2013, 10:47AM
“It would be ok having a slight raise if you actually saw any of the money being spent in your area. Unfortunately the thing which annoys most people living in North Somerset is that most of the money is only spent in Weston, guess similar to how national everything goes to London. Having lived in a small village in the north of the county since birth I have noticed a decrease each year in the facilities we receive, we are lucky if we get any grit when its icy or snow. Every road has creators in them as they were known as pot holes years ago and I'm not even going to mention much about the bin/recycle persons as that would be a longer story. the council claim they have over 1 million pot holes to fill and are prioritising them”