Mar 06
Exclusive: Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s recently approved 2013 budget could have to be torn up following news that a judicial review has been lodged over the authority’s council tax support scheme approved just last month. The scheme will see some of the poorest benefit claimants in the city, who currently pay nothing, having to pay 30% …
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Nov 19
Tax freeze to stop protestsCOUNCIL tax is to be frozen amid fears residents would refuse to pay if bills were increased for the second year in a row. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced it will not increase bills from April, despite needing to make up to £23 million savings. via Thisisstaffordshire
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Nov 07
Alan Joynson from Stoke has launched a petition against Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council raising council tax again in 2013. Mr Joyson writes: This Authority has increased Council Tax year on year where other Authorities have accepted the governments payment not to increase.Last year we saw another massive increase,whilst services were reduced. Councillors gave themselves …
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Oct 23
Stoke-on-Trent has revealed that it still has £28m it has been unable to collect in council tax and business rates in the last 20 years. The figures released go back to 1993 which shows it is still owed £5000 from that year. Stoke-on-Trent City council leader, Labour’s Mohammed Pervez, told of his concerns last week, …
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Sep 20
Cash strapped Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to write off a further £7.5m of debt when its Cabinet meets next Thursday, doubling the amount it has written off in the last 2 years, taking the total to £16m. ¹In May earlier this year the Labour run council wrote off £3m and said it had put things …
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Sep 06
Labour councillors who run Stoke-on-Trent City Council voted on mass to block an impassioned plea by petitioners and City Independent Stoke councillor Randy Conteh to debate and discuss the moving of its HQ from Stoke to Hanley at a cost to the taxpayers of $59m, at its full council meeting tonight (Thursday 6Sept). Richard Snell, …
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Oct 13
Soapbox: Hanley Regeneration – A Price Worth Paying?
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by PottEye
October 13, 2012
Regenerating Stoke-on-Trent after the demise of its hardcore industrial past has been the primary aim of our political leaders for over two decades now. It’s a never-ending work in progress. There has been some limited success most notably Trentham Lakes with its high-tech/ low man power logistic sprawl. However, it is becoming an increasingly desperate …
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