Tax bill is a headache for all

LETTER: "Council facing tax proposal headache" was a headline in your newspaper on January 28, so the council has a similar headache that we, the people of the borough, have.

We have had this headache for many years, trying to find the money to pay the extortionate demands of the council.

We then watch helplessly as they squander the money on schemes like Trench Lock, Ketley lights, the Thomas Telford public house.

They have recently spent a considerable amount of money on Meeting Point House yet, under the Transforming Telford project, they plan to demolish it along with the library, ice rink and no doubt anything else that stands in the way.

They sell the office building and then build a bigger one about 200 yards away. Why not extend and improve the existing one?

They have just announced the purchase of Edgbaston House in Wellington, but because of commercial confidentiality they are unable to tell us how much of our money they have spent. Have they paid over the odds, will we ever know?

I would urge Councillor Eade and his colleagues when setting this year's council tax to eliminate the misuse of public money and take the people of the borough's worsening circumstances into account.

This could lead to a reduction or at least a freeze at last year's levels bearing in mind the extra money coming from the Government.

I live in hope – with the headache pills close at hand.

J R Elcock

St Georges