The city council is planning to raise council tax by the maximum amount allowed next year due to a funding gap
Plans to increase council tax by five per cent in Nottingham would 'hit a lot of people', local residents have said. of more than £30 million.
Sheila Burden, a pensioner from Sneinton, said she was already struggling due to rising energy and food prices. The 75-year-old said of the tax hike: "They give with on hand and take away with the other, as always. We've got used to council tax going up every year but it's going to hit a lot of people this particular year. When there's so much poverty about."It's swings and roundabouts, I just want for it to stop, for someone to say 'halt'.
The new savings planned for next year are so far are worth £29 million and also include reviewing fees and charges at car parks, leisure centres and museums, withdrawing the wheelchair hire service at the Victoria Centre and stopping the collection of household bins put out on the wrong day. Alicia Palmer, a 52-year-old learning support assistant from Woodthorpe, added: "I don't have a problem with it. I understand costs have gone up. I think the services we have need to be invested in. I understand it's difficult for some people but money doesn't grow on trees.
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