Tax is now a huge burden to most
TO WASTE more local council taxpayers' money on the clock tower road scheme now that it has been completed is totally unacceptable.
I am sure that most local people's objection is why 900 each was paid for what are basically lumps of imported concrete.
The overall council tax level has risen to a frightening and unsustainable level and become a huge burden to the majority of household budgets (remember that Newmarket Town Council has recently slapped a massive 23.8 per cent rise on the householder community of Newmarket for its portion of the council tax demand?)
Now the town council is proposing to add a seven per cent Council Tax rise on top of any future annual increase to fund a loan for the memorial hall. Why not look at the possibility of selling off the memorial hall, use the money from this to fund the maintenance of The Severals sports project at no cost to the Council Tax payer and relocate the town council office to Palace House?
One and a half million pounds (now apparently rising to 2.5million) is a lot of money to throw at this type of project and where is the guarantee that the budget will be kept in line (aka the swimming pool costs fiasco)?
To keep ramping up the council tax bill every year is no longer viable, particularly in these times of dire national financial circumstances with the economy falling apart at the seams and billions of pounds of national debt to be repaid.
Funding for the local council should be taken from the excessive amounts that we already pay to Suffolk County Council and Forest Heath Council, if a new major project is proposed in the town then the financing of it should be made clear and put to the opinion of the local population rather than automatically assuming that any figure mentioned is acceptable.
Regarding the proposed housing at Hatchfield Farm, it needs to be borne in mind that, with an increasing global population, the sustainability of crop and food supplies is coming under increasing pressure and to urbanise productive farmland has to be questioned.
We live on a small island nation with limited land resources and once these developments have taken place there is no turning back – you cannot plough concrete, you cannot plant seeds into Tarmac.
Mr L Murfet
Edinburgh Road
Newmarket
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