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Council tax to rise for East Riding residents but charges for free car parks scrapped
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The £67 9m Trafford council has spent in emergency decisions in the pandemic
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Trafford Town Hall TRAFFORD Council has spent over £65 million in ’emergency decisions’ made since the start of the Covid pandemic. Soon after the pandemic hit and the country went into lockdown in March 2020, the authority granted itself emergency powers in a move approved by all parties at a full council meeting last year. The aim was to avoid unnecessary bureaucracy that slowed decision making down, at a time when fast reactions and quick policy-making were essential. The powers were initially drawn into the council’s constitution to allow temporary emergency decision-making powers for a period of 12 months. The plan enabled important meetings and decisions to be made by the Labour administration behind closed doors, with regular calls made to the leaders of all other political parties to keep people informed and get their agreement.
St Andrews Car Park - one of Norwich City Council s car parks.
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The fall in people parking in Norwich during Covid lockdowns meant the city council missed out on more than £3m it expected to make from its car parks.
The pandemic has also had an impact on how much Norwich City Council has generated from its commercial property investments.
Coronavirus meant Norwich City Council missed out on £3m it had expected to get in parking fees.
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Officers are forecasting a half a million pound reduction in what had been budgeted for in rent from its properties, which includes a Travelodge in Harlow and a gym in Ramsgate.
However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening?
It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy.
No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the building has been left unoccupied and uncared for over the past 23 years, leaving the bricks to have basically been penetrated by pigeon poo.
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