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probably cleaned them up they were minging & gave them out as replacements well I wasn't allowed new ones,I had to have crappy second hand ones

Well the last free collection came and went on Friday and guess what NO COLLECTION AGAIN , shame on you Wirral waste services.

Can anybody tell me how much Council Tax has risen by over the last 5 years?

Dunno but does anyone know where I can get a reasonably priced garden composter?. The few places I looked last week had sold out for some reason.

In 2011/12 and 2012/13 it hasn't risen at all.The Government have funded all the councils, in an effort to freeze council tax rises. This year 2013/14 our council refused certain funding offered by the Governement, I suppose that was in a way of making a 'statement'.. So let the people pay and blame the Government.. for the councils previous bad management of accounts.
Can't say about overall 5 years as you request, but sure someone else will. For me Band D has gone up by £5 month for this next financial year.
On the surface for us it would seem it has only increased by e.g. £5 a month since 2011 but that is not really correct as the council had the 'dosh' from the Government, anyway.
In my opinion, WBC council now has far to much leaning toward the other side of the Mersey which will cost us hugely in the long term. We will finance Liverpool once they have underhandedly set the ball into motion. Amalgamation of services.

The garden waste charges..... well lets wait and see how many more loose their jobs. If people aren't paying for their bins to be emptied, the service provided by Biffa (?) will not be needed as previously, neither will the amount of vehicles.What previously took a week to do, will be done in two/three days. I hope the council will then be able to re-negotiate terms for a new and cheaper contract with them.

It was a bit of a loaded question to be honest becasue I had already looked at the answer
2009 - 2010 the increase was 4.5% overall (4.4% WBC / 5% Police / 3.9% Fire
2010 - 2011 the increase was 1.7% overall (1.3% WBC / 3% Police / 4.9% Fire
2011 - 2012 the increase was 0% overall
2012 - 2013 the increase was .05% overall (0% WBC / 3% Police / 4% Fire)
2013 - 2014 the increase was 2% overall 2% WBC / 2% Police / 2% Fire)

So............ Would you prefer a complusory extra 2% on EVERYONE's bill and carry on with garden collection regardless of whether you use it or not or 3% voluntary increase on only those people who use the garden collection.

There is no doubt that WBC are not perfect but I really believe that they are damned if they do and damned if they don't on here.

Softy, we have already paid for the Brown Bin service in our increased council tax this year, the extra is just an add on.Those who pay their council tax and are not going to have a brown bin service could maybe request a refund! The whole system of consolidated council tax for everyone, means we ALL pay toward the services that benefit the whole community. Education, School buses, lollypop ladies/gents, Day Centres, etc.etc., If those who don't use those services were given the choice to opt out,imagine how much would fall on the young families and the vulnerable.
In this case, I would imagine that the £35 has fallen more on pensioners in the borough, who have no other means or ability, to dispose of their garden waste.In all honesty, is that a fair system?
Regard to figures, WBC council tax rates are higher than many others boroughs anyway, therefore the overall percentage, does not give a true figure, if it is based on what we pay in this borough against other boroughs, where they paid less to start with . Therefore 2% increase in others council tax,would be less than a 2% increase in WBC council tax. .....if you get my meaning.
SO yes they are damned if they do, as it's another way of fiddling the figures...which they were never very good at!

Can't even put potatoes in brown bin!

just some stats. i have 8 regular grass cuts to do for householders and half have paid for their brown bin. The other 4 have not bothered

We went to the tip last week the man said to us you haven't got garden waste have you we said just grass cuttings and some other stuff the garden waste skip was full so there must be lots of people not paying brown bin tax