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I've just moved house and the new street I'm on doesn't have a pavement or off street storage for any wheelie bins but about 10m further down the road there is.
The council have said that they won't/can't provide wheelie bins for the 3 or so houses that aren't next to this bit of pavement.
Due to this, our black bins have to sit on the street, which looks ugly and normally rubbish ends up all over the street.
Based on that, does anyone know whether its worth logging a complaint and asking for a reduction in the council tax?
Lol, do you have any idea how much of your council tax goes towards bin collection each year?
Seriously?
ebygomm - not the point though is it.
put it like this, i don't have a wheelie bin, i don't have street lights, i don't even have a tarmac road,(the council will not allow it to be tarmaced) do i get a reduction, do you see the pigs flying past the window.
@ebygomn; clearly not or I wouldn't be asking on a forum and as coffeeking said its not the point. Part of my council tax is put towards bin collection; mine doesn't get collected properly, so why should I be paying the full amount?
@mrmo: where do you live? I live in a city. Providing street lighting isn't guaranteed but providing a wheelie bin service when ours only gets collected every 2 weeks is supposed to be
Isn't the bin part something like 50p a week?
I pay £4.40 a month for Council Tax at the moment.
I dont use the library can i have some money back?
I pay £120 a month and @forlone hope: thats not the council's fault is it? That's your fault.
I live on an unadopted road (because the council keep putting up barriers to it being adopted, the developers have been doing everthing they can to get it off their hands) and have done for 8 years, zero reduction for me.
Two questions:
1. Should you pay less if you get a reduced services.
- emphatically yes.
2. Does this country work by linking the services you recieve to what you pay in.
- emphatically no.
I dont use the library can i have some money back?
Thats your choice though. He wants a bin but isnt being given it (i.e. paying for something but not getting it despite wanting it). You dont want something being given (i.e. paying for something you choose not to use despite knowing you pay for it).