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Spiffy Saturday
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:49 |
It's all well and good building new houses but they don't seem to think it through do they Gwyn |
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Von | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:49 |
Our council tax is up too. One of the most expensive boroughs |
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Von | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:48 |
We’re lucky here re the hospital as funding has been earmarked for a new build. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:47 |
Council tax up by 4.9% too. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:47 |
I think our Council just added it to the Council Tax the following year |
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Von | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:46 |
We don’t think we will pay. I have some empty compost bins and any perennial weeds |
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**Ann** | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:46 |
I remember that now Belle |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:46 |
'Poor' council has to try to get in cash to replenish the coffers after some expensive decisions, which fell through |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:43 |
They started charging us must be 6-7 years back .....very few took them up which meant the local dump was heaving with people so much so that the queue of cars stretched back to a major roundabout which caused havoc |
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**Ann** | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:40 |
Wow that is expensive Gwyn |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:39 |
Are you a gardener, Kath |
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Von | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:39 |
I think our council will be charging after April. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:38 |
Our garden bin is collected all year, once a fortnight, except for a short break over Christmas. |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:38 |
I'd hate to live in Birmingham....it looks dire |
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**Ann** | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:38 |
I know |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:37 |
Two years |
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**Ann** | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:37 |
Oh better shut up then Belle |
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LondonBelle | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:36 |
They don't charge Ann unlike a lot of councils now |
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**Ann** | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:36 |
2 years ago today since we lost Emms |
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Von | Report | 22 Mar 2025 19:36 |
I keep getting butterflies in the greenhouse but not sure if they are hatching in there |