News from Croydon Labour

Council tax freeze proposed by Croydon Labour

Councillor Tony Newman, Leader of the Labour Group on Croydon Council, is demanding that there are no increases in Council Tax for hard pressed Croydon residents for the next two years. He insists that this could easily be afforded by the Council if the Tory administration called a halt to its current policy of gambling with taxpayers’ money on the increasingly unstable property market. Property values and rents are continuing to fall and yet Croydon’s Tories approved the Urban Regeneration Vehicle at the last Council meeting.

Councillor Newman said:

“We have already seen millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money wasted with the speculative purchase of Davis House, a dilapidated office block, that is part of the Tories’ crazy plan to indulge themselves in building a new Council headquarters at this time of economic hardship for many Croydon residents. The money used for such a proposal and the other hundreds of thousands of pounds being spent on external consultants for both this scheme and the now discredited scheme to close numerous schools in Croydon should be returned to Croydon’s taxpayers by introducing a freeze on Council Tax increases for the next two years. Council Tax under this Tory Council is already at a record level and our hard-pressed taxpayers deserve to be treated better.”

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