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| Essex County Council | 72% |
| Essex Police | 10% |
| Essex Fire and Rescue Service | 4% |
| Epping Forest District Council | 10% |
| Town and Parish Councils | 4% |
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Essex County Council
(ECC) plans
to increase
Council Tax by £33.57 for a Band D
household, the maximum allowed by the Government as a social care
‘levy’, but
won’t make any other increase. It also plans to invest more than £260m
of
capital on schools, special education needs and roads [this
comes after
years of under-spending on the County’s roads by successive
Conservative
administrations]. Summary
here. |
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Epping Forest District Council: no change. More |
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Essex Police: the
Police and Crime Commissioner has proposed anincrease in the Police
component of Council tax of £4.95 per year for a band D property. The
additional
money will fund additional resources in line with commitments under the
recently published
Police and Crime
Plan, including: - an increase in police officers - the doubling of the Special Constable Programme - improvements in the 101 public contact system Detailed reasons for the increase here (paras 4.3 – 4.5) |
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Essex Fire & Rescue Service: proposed increase of £1.25 for a Band D household. There are lots of minor changes in the budgets between 2016-17 and 2017-18, but the biggest difference is that, instead of drawing heavily on reserves as they did in 2016-17, next year they plan a small increase in resreves..99%. Details here |
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Loughton Town Council (LTC) precept for 2017/18. At full Council meeting on January 25th, the Council considered its first Council Tax increase for 7 years. This was approved and the annual Band D charge will go up by under 5p a week, so that the new figure would still be under £1 a week, and well below some other local town/parish councils’ rates. The increase will provide a much-needed increase in the reserve the Council holds for work on the Neighbourhood Plan and the District Council’s draft Local Plan (dLP) – LTC has strongly objected to various aspects of the dLP (as have LRA & residents), Particularly the proposals to build on open spaces, such as the Debden greens. It seems likely that the council will need to pay for professional help during the next stages of its development. More here and here |
| 2016-17 | 2017-18 | % increase | Cash increase | |
| County Council | £1,130.13 | £1,163.70 | 3% | £33.57 |
| District Council | £148.77 | £148.77 | 0% | £0.00 |
| Police | £152.10 | £157.05 | 3.25% | £4.95 |
| Fire | £67.68 | £69.03 | 1.99% | £1.25 |
| Town Council | £49.18 | £51.64 | 4.98% | £2.46 |
| £1,547.86 |