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Council Tax – only our group opposed the 4% INCREASE!
We believe in keeping Council Tax as low as possible. Council tax increases hit the lower paid harder than any other group in society and low-income taxpayers are always the ones that suffer.
We look closely at ways to save costs and stamp out waste. At the council meeting where council tax was debated we presented our case to halve the recommended increase – protecting the social care increase. However all the establishment parties (Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem) rejected the idea. Cllr Kus argued: “Council Tax hurts the less well off in our society. Council Tax in Derby has increased 57% in real terms since 1997. The tax burden is already at a 50 year high and it is unfair to keep asking taxpayers to dig deeper.”
Note: UK wages are expected to receive a 1.1% real salary increase in 2020.
Hardworking activists – WE DIG IN!
We work all year round for our communities and for Derby. We have planted trees and welcome the new Public Protection Officers (PPOs). There is one for each ward. This is in line with our group policy promise of tackling anti-social behaviour, fly tipping, irresponsible parking and bins-on-streets issues. We are working hard to implement our policy promises in Alvaston & Boulton.
Public Protection Officers
Derby City Council now has 20 Public Protection Officers. Your local councillors are working very closely with the officers to solve parking problems around Alvaston and to stop unlawful parking at school times. They also have the power to issue fines to those who leave their bins out and who litter our streets.
Councillor John Evans said “It is great to have these public protection officers to ensure that our streets are clean and that people are obeying the law. We want to ensure that Alvaston ward is a clean friendly place getting the community working together for everyone.”
ALLENTON MARKET SAVED!
As active Councillors we get a lot of positive feedback from local residents when helping them. Some of our recent successes include: Saving Allenton Market supporting the provision of a lease to the market traders; New bollards installed on Harvey Road and Coleman street; successful Compactor Days; deep clean events; a new Lidl to replace the planned flats on Raynesway, and much, much more.
