Council Tax is set to be cut by 3 per cent for the fourth successive year, Hammersmith & Fulham Council announced today.
The news comes at a time when the council’s services have officially been judged to be among the best in the country by the Audit Commission and a series of opinion polls show residents’ approval ratings continuing to rise substantially.
The council has taken out more than £56 million worth of waste and bureaucracy over recent years.
H&F Council Leader Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh says:
“Some critics have argued in the past that cutting costs is unpopular – this is nonsense. What we are doing in Hammersmith & Fulham is hugely popular with local residents.
“All councils have a duty to respond to the perfect storm of social and economic challenges caused by Britain’s toxic debt mountain which is fast approaching £1.4 trillion. Britain is heading for bankruptcy unless we all start making radical changes that can truly deliver better services for less money.”
When council tax demands go through letterboxes in May, hard-pressed council taxpayers in other London boroughs will be charged hundreds of pounds more than four years ago. But - if budget proposals are officially rubber stamped early next year - the H&F plan will see average bills £122 cheaper than they were in 2006/07. If other London authorities increase their share by 2.6 per cent - which has been the average over the past three years - an average H&F taxpayer is better off by more than £600.
Over the past four years H&F Council has:
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