London Borough Council Tax Changes
What do Kensington & Chelsea, The City of London and Tower Hamelets (home of Canary Wharf) and Lewisham have in common? They are the only inner London boroughs to have approved significant Council Tax increases for 2009 / 10.
Brockley Kate has rustled up a spreadsheet, which lists all of the London Borough's Band D Council Tax rates and 2009/10 increases.
Lewisham passed a 2 percent rise, but not to fund the Green New Deal. Green Ladywell will be blogging about what the money will get spent on instead shortly.
That 2% increase is significantly higher than the London average of 1.23% and way above the inner London average of only 0.34%.
It also secures Lewisham's position as the most expensive billing authority for Band D rate payers in inner London. The average Band D rate for inner London is £1,115, Lewisham's is £1,352, higher than the London-wide average of £1,308.
Given this, it ought not to be too much to hope for that we could find some investment for Coulgate Street.
The full list of billing authorities looks like this:
Local Authority / Band D increase / Band D average £
[Inner London]
City of London / 2.11% / 942.79
Camden / 0.00% / 1,331.58
Greenwich / 0.00% / 1,290.85
Hackney / 0.00% / 1,308.27
Hammersmith & Fulham / -2.21% / 1,146.71
Islington / 0.00% / 1,248.23
Kensington & Chelsea / 2.28% / 1,092.27
Lambeth / 0.00% / 1,235.11
Lewisham / 1.92% / 1,351.93
Southwark / 0.00% /1,221.96
Tower Hamlets / 1.69% / 1,195.34
Wandsworth / 0.00% / 687.07
Westminster / 0.01% / 687.84
[Outer London]
Barking & Dagenham / 0.00% / 1,326.22
Barnet / 2.19% / 1,423.02
Bexley /1.98% / 1,427.00
Brent / 1.92% /1,368.76
Bromley / 2.04% / 1,288.98
Croydon / 2.99% / 1,447.71
Ealing / 0.00% / 1,369.75
Enfield / 1.93% / 1,410.16
Haringey / 1.54% / 1,494.14
Harrow / 2.32% / 1,496.37
Havering / 1.89% /1,511.00
Hillingdon / 0.00% / 1,422.75
Hounslow / 0.00% / 1,400.47
Kingston-upon-Thames / 3.21% / 1,630.78
Merton / 1.95% / 1,432.16
Newham / 0.00% / 1,255.45
Redbridge / 2.12% / 1,405.35
Richmond-upon-Thames / 3.46% / 1,597.21
Sutton / 2.26% / 1,450.71
Waltham Forest / 1.49% / 1,462.03
