Autumn statement: Preston and Chorley leaders call for council tax and funding rethink after the government grants permission for bigger bills
, which have responsibility for social care, to add a further two percent to their share of bills – would enable councils to set rates “based on the needs, resources and priorities” of local areas.
“In Chorley, we very rarely put our council tax up by the max, because we don’t like asking residents for more money – we want the council to earn its money and do other things to raise revenues. But we’re fortunate, there are other councils not in that position.“Give us some proper money to do proper things – and we’ll do it better than how it’s currently done,” Cllr Bradley appealed to the government.
Cllr Brown told the Local Democracy Reporting Service after the autumn statement that cuts may be needed to balance the books next year, but that the authority’s members and officers were doing all they could to ensure that that outcome was averted.However, on the broader issue of council tax – which the city council raised by 1.99 percent for the current year – Preston’s leader said that council funding needed to be fairer for residents and more empowering for local authorities themselves.
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