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Forum: General Chat 27-04-2008, 19:49

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe You have had the 1999 figures. If you work out the budgets had we been ratecapped, the Council's budget would now be around £12m approx. It is in fact now £15m because of above inflation increases. ...

Forum: General Chat 27-04-2008, 19:44

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe The first bit is somewhat right. Labour scrapped outside contracts. Well Mike Chambers Chief Exec did and I am not sure how much authority he had. At the end of the day it was Labour's fault. Such as...

Forum: General Chat 26-04-2008, 18:37

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe The HRA loans were around £22m, might have been £23m when the were repaid. No idea how it was that. Presume previous Housing schemes???? Might have been from some of the 70's builds as the loans were...

Forum: General Chat 26-04-2008, 18:24

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe George Slynn was neither my cup of tea either. But he at least put together a £4million Town Centre plan but the lottery funding £2m fell through and he lost control (1999) to the Tories. Only...

Forum: General Chat 26-04-2008, 18:20

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe No, it's many factors combined. However building utopian white elephants like the Walker Development on an old thriving market was a disaster.

Forum: General Chat 26-04-2008, 18:16

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe It was £42m - it peaked at £46m. £22m for Council Housing and £26m for the Council Tax Payer. When The Council Houses were transferred the Council had the £22m wiped out PLUS another £10m which...

Forum: General Chat 26-04-2008, 18:04

Replies: 149 mr britcliffe Views: 4,291 Posted By g jones Re: mr britcliffe The Tories overspent by 450k in THEIR first quarter (ie projected £1.8m loss) and blamed Labour for the year before, despite the books balancing in Labour's year. Just thought I'd put the record...

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