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Defaulters targeted in 'claw back' bid from Pendle Council

DEBTORS, landlords, taxi drivers and whistleblowers are being targeted as part of plans by Pendle Council to recoup more than £77,000.

Extra fees will be sought from council tax and non-domestic rates defaulters, recovering an additional £16,000 in 2012-13.

And the hourly rate for building control work will be increased by 20 per cent from £42.73 to £51.22.

An explosion in the number of Freedom of Information Act requests, enquiring into the running of the authority, has sparked a review into charging for more complex cases.

The council dealt with around 70 per year when the act was first introduced in 2005 but 320 requests were lodged in 2010-11 and there has been 219 in the first six months of the current council year.

Taxi drivers will also be expected to pay the £44 required for a Criminal Records Bureau check, salvaging £8,000.

Several fees and charges, such as market rents, parking permits, local land charges and stray dog penalties, will remain the same, and others will rise by the current inflation rate of 4.7 per cent.

Coun Linda Crossley, finance cabinet member, said: "Our priority is to protect the services that matter most to residents.

“This is one way we’re managing our finances in a bid to protect these vital services.”

The cost of dealing with rodents and wasps is also set to increase by 15.4 per cent, from £26 to £30.

Dean Langton, the council’s finance head, said: “Where we're proposing an increase, in most cases it’s in line with inflation or less.

“Like every other council in the country, we're always looking at ways to achieve a balanced budget while maintaining our services.”

Most of the increases will come into force at the start of 2012.

Comments(8)

Lifeinthemix says...
12:46am Mon 31 Oct 11

are we not sick to the back teeth of taking the rap for the insanity of private corporate bankers, and the corporate controlled government and crown?

£468.9 billion collected in tax off the people each year, and we need this fiat currency why?

remove the corporate fascists and print our currency without interest, it worked for Lincoln and JFK was following the same. they called them greenbacks, we can call ours corrie-enders-united
...sort of covers the majority....

aleevio1 says...
12:46am Mon 31 Oct 11

Does the ordinary man in the street know what this report is about? Someone's gonna tel me am fik, but it beats me to a cocked hat !.

aleevio1 says...
12:58am Mon 31 Oct 11

Dont understand "Lifeinthemix" either. I am thick. .

Lifeinthemix says...
10:24am Mon 31 Oct 11

perhaps eating the pencil at the back of the class was not such a good idea!!

Izanears says...
4:15pm Mon 31 Oct 11

“Like every other council in the country, we're always looking at ways to achieve a balanced budget while maintaining our services.”

The problem isthat they are not maintaining their services.
I complained recently that poop scoop bins had not been emptied for over a month. I found out that they had made the guy redundant!!!!!!!

Izanears says...
4:18pm Mon 31 Oct 11

Second thoughts.....
Extra fees will be sought from council tax and non-domestic rates defaulters, recovering an additional £16,000 in 2012-13.
If these people have defaulted before, how can the council say they are goimg to get £16k from them this time. methinks these people live in Cloud Cuckoo land.

bikerjohn_uk says...
10:50am Wed 2 Nov 11

Lifeinthemix wrote:
are we not sick to the back teeth of taking the rap for the insanity of private corporate bankers, and the corporate controlled government and crown?

£468.9 billion collected in tax off the people each year, and we need this fiat currency why?

remove the corporate fascists and print our currency without interest, it worked for Lincoln and JFK was following the same. they called them greenbacks, we can call ours corrie-enders-united

...sort of covers the majority....
Yes, and both Abraham Lincoln and JFK got assassinated for their troubles...

will12 says...
8:09am Thu 3 Nov 11

Totally agree with Lifeinthemix, the people on the mimimum wage levels of Society, who are trying to make ends meet on a day-to-day basis, ie the majority, are made to "want and need" by the elite, to keep them in "their" place, because by keeping them in their "want and need" places it means the elite can then do what they want !!!

This year the AVERAGE DIRECTOR WAGE RISE IS ............. 49% !!!!!!

And the Council's of this Country have been given that elite power !!! How can "our" Chief Exec warrant £135,000 per year for a 4 DAY WEEK !!!!

And "our" very generous Council is paying 22.5% as its Contribution's into peoples Pension Funds !!!!

Pendle Council is so in Debt its living on fresh air and Bank's printing more money !!!!

Yet there are houses in Pendle that are registered as "empty", and when the Council goes round, there are at least 5 people living there and paying cash for their rent !!! The Council know this figure is over 100 houses in Nelson and Colne alone, yet will not prosecute the "owner's" of these houses, because its not "PC" TO DO SO!!!!!!

And if you approach someone from the Council or make a comment, you are told "its not their Department, or told you are too Negative", but I don't have a "Brown Envelope" to give them, which for some opens the door to the riches of Contracts or privileges that are reserved for the few,or the elite!!!!!!

Once upon a day, Politician's, National and Local, could say things and because we didn't know any better, we thought it was the truth !!!!!

And now with the power of the Internet, the truth is out there !!! Politician's are compulsive liar's, and are only in the job to feather their own nest, speak to your Local Councillor or your Local MP, and you will be amazed at the lies they tell when the truth is staring us all in the face !!!

They say Egypt, Libya etc were ruled by "Dictatorship's", and the people had no voice, no free democracy, yet in the UK today, the only free voice is that of the "PC Human Rights World", yet we LIVE IN A FREE DEMOCRACY, and still the majority have no voice !!!!! And Cameron will be the first to crow, if the people rise up and over-throw this Elitist Government!!!!!!

Reap the seeds you sow and what goes around, comes around, so stop lying and see the "Real World" for once !!!!!!

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