South Beds raises council tax 4.5%

Posted on March 1, 2006

South Beds district council has agreed a budget for 2006/07 which will see its share of the council tax rise by 4.5per cent.

This means a band D household in South Beds will pay just under £150 for the district council's services this year - a rise of £6.44 on last year, or 12p per week.

Cllr Philip Penman, executive portfolio holder for resource management said: "A year ago I set an annual rate of increase of 4.9 per cent, but we have been able to reduce this to 4.5 per cent."

The money raised by South Beds will be used to invest an additional £450,000 into town centre improvements and over £2million into providing more housing opportunities.

Cllr Penman added: "We will spend and additional £740,000 to provide more CCTV coverage in council flats and have extended the capital provision for rural areas to run for the full five years."

Source: Leighton Buzzard Observer, 28 February 2006