Looking to the future despite budget challenges
Bury Council is allocating an extra £400,000 to help the borough’s most vulnerable through the cost of living crisis and show residents that it is on their side during these tough times.
Bury Council is allocating an extra £400,000 to help the borough’s most vulnerable through the cost of living crisis and show residents that it is on their side during these tough times.
Discretionary Council Tax discount for empty properties and second homes is to be removed with effect from 1 April 2022.
Social care staff who have been at the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are among those to be rewarded by the council’s first post-Covid budget.
A man who tricked thousands of people into believing they could reduce their council tax banding has been sent to prison.
Bury Council has announced an ambitious multi-million pound set of proposals to help address the Climate Emergency.
Regeneration and thriving businesses and communities are at the heart of a £16 million funding boost announced by council leaders.
The needs of vulnerable people who need social care were prioritised by Bury Council when it set its budget and council tax tonight (Wed 21 Feb).
The council is giving residents another chance to make comments before it formally sets the next budget and council tax levels on Wednesday 21 February.
A Radcliffe woman has been prosecuted for falsely claiming £250 in council tax single person’s discount.
Council leaders in Bury have launched a public consultation on plans to cut £32 million from services over the next three years (2017-20).
Bury Council has taken possession of a property within the borough for non-payment of council tax stretching back a decade.
Local people are being asked for their views on proposed changes to Bury’s Council Tax Support Scheme. The proposed changes will see some residents who receive Council Tax Support contributing more to their Council Tax.
Bury Council consists of six towns, Bury, Ramsbottom, Tottington, Radcliffe, Whitefield and Prestwich. Formed in April 1974 as a result of Local Government re-organisation it was one of the ten original districts that formed the County of Greater Manchester. The Borough has an area of 9,919 hectares (24,511 acres) and serves a population of 187,500.
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