I am aware of the concerns of many of our residents regarding details in our latest rates bill, and offer my own apologies (and those of Coun Doug Dickens) that we were outvoted by other councillors in our opposition to the enormous and totally unwarranted increase in the village precept.
Having considered the public assets owned by we parishioners, and in view of the minor duties the council actually do undertake, it is hard to reconcile the size of the bill with the need for there to be anything other than a token precept.
Regardless of what any other councillor has written, I do not believe that grandiose plans for future developments will enable the remotest possibility for this year’s exorbitant precept to ever be substantially reduced, but that it will actually increase year on year.
I can therefore only invite all of our parishioners to take a far more proactive role in openly confronting this most unsatisfactory state of affairs, either by contacting me or any other councillor direct.
An open forum is available on the blog ourpinchbeck.blogspot.co.uk, which hopefully might inspire a genuine public meeting (not run solely by councillors) where all opinions can be aired and considered for the genuine benefit of the majority rather than the few.
Leon B Tetherton
Pinchbeck
