Babergh Council tax increase.

Babergh District Council's council tax is likely to increase by 2.9 - 3.5% for next year(2009-2010). The economic down turn has made it a difficult task with constant changes to interest rates affecting investment income but there will be some real service improvements as Babergh is entering the free swimming for the retired scheme set out by the Government.
On Babergh there is a healthy cross party consensus that council tax rates should be as near to the inflation rate as possible and even below it if we can but without damaging services.
Unfortunately, Babergh is only approximately 10% of your bill but being the collecting authority it often gets the blame when there are big increases.