Councils should offer real help now to families’ cost of living

Bob Neill MP, Minister for Local Government, urges councils to accept the Council Tax freeze offer For the second year… Read more »

Windsor & Maidenhead to cut Council Tax for third year in a row

Congratulations to the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead which is cutting its Council Tax for the third year… Read more »

Two more Conservative councils plan Council Tax rises

After the news of Surrey, Peterborough, Chelmsford and Aylesbury Vale there are reports of two more Conservative councils, Scarborough and… Read more »

Wasteful spending of Labour councils refusing to freeze Council Tax

Plenty of Labour councils claiming they have "no alternative" to  Council Tax increase despite the offer of Government funding to… Read more »

Bury makes u-turn to agree Council Tax freeze

Labour-run Bury Council is to freeze the Council Tax in the coming year. Yet last October the Labour councillors voted… Read more »

Aylesbury Vale District Council should duck out of Council Tax rise

Conservative-run Aylesbury Vale District Council is considering a Council Tax increase of 2.5%. Perversely a Labour opposition councillor says "this… Read more »

Fighting Labour Darlington’s Council Tax hike

Cllr Heather Scott, leader of the Conservative opposition on Darlington Borough Council, says her council has already doubled the Council… Read more »

Surrey and Chelmsford plan Council Tax hikes

After Peterborough there is disappointing news of two more Conservative councils planning to increase the Council tax and spurn the… Read more »

Pickles: Councils “moral duty” not to push up Council Tax

In a powerful speech yesterday the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles gave a strong message to councils planning to reject the… Read more »

Conservative council plans to spurn Council Tax freeze

Peterborough City Council, a unitary authority with a large Conservative majority, is proposing a Council Tax rise of 2.95%. This… Read more »

Will the London Assembly back Boris on the Council Tax freeze?

The London Assembly is often criticised as a talking shop. I believe its cost of over £8 million a year… Read more »

Stratford-on-Avon and Tendring plan Council Tax cuts

Congratulations to Conservative-run Stratford-on-Avon District Council who are cutting their Council Tax charge by 1%. The main element of the… Read more »

Westminster Council says Council Tax Benefit should be linked to behaviour

At present councils have no financial interest in reducing the number of people on Council Tax Benefit. They adminster the… Read more »

Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh is pin up of the month

Congratulations to Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh (pictured on Christmas Day in Hammersmith Town Hall at the pensioners lunch), the tax cutting… Read more »

Council Tax rise planned for Nottingham

  A fillip for the Local Government Chronicle's campaign for Council Tax increases – in defiance of the Government's offer… Read more »