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Let us keep our rent money say Adur Council
Ref : 09/001 : Date : 06-01-2009
Adur Council could be £2.4 million better off if they could keep all the income from council house rents instead of handing a big slice of it over to the government. Adur is joining forces with several other councils in Sussex asking Gordon Brown to let councils keep the money to invest in their own housing stock.
The money the council say could be spent improving homes and perhaps building much needed affordable new ones. Adur Council has done their sums and says that £17.25 from an average weekly rent of £67.50 is filling government coffers.
The government uses the money from councils like Adur to subsidise other councils. This arrangement is unfair say many councils in Sussex. People are invited to add their voice to this issue by signing a petition, which will be sent to Gordon Brown at the end of January.
Cabinet member for Improved Customer Services, Julie Searle said: “In 2008/9 £2.4 million of rent money collected in Adur will go straight to the government and will add to the growing surplus of £200 million of rent money held by the treasury. We want to keep our own rental income, which will allow us more freedom to improve homes and mean we won’t have to borrow to do it.”
The petition closed at the end of January 2009.
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