Dartford Borough Council News

The snow may have gone but Dartford’s Council Tax is still frozen.

The Council met on Monday 27 February to consider the budget for the year ahead and agreed that Council Tax should be frozen for the year 2012/13.

This is the second consecutive year that Council Tax has not risen in the Borough – remaining at the rate set in 2010/11. For a Band D property this means a charge of £162.90.

Leader of the Council, Councillor Jeremy Kite, said, “We don’t believe that service cuts are inevitable and we don’t believe in putting your Council Tax up when we don’t have to. Instead, we continue to cut costs INSIDE the Civic Centre and try to remember that you are the boss. It means you have the right to tell us how you want things done, how you want us to do them and a right to expect us not to waste money as we go about our business.”

Council Tax statements and a booklet explaining how your Council Tax is spent will be hitting doormats shortly. Information is also available at www.dartford.gov.uk/counciltax. For further information about the Council’s budget, visit www.dartford.gov.uk/budget.

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The Core Strategy document will be of significant interest for anyone who lives or works in the Borough. It sets out a ‘route map’ for planning the Borough to 2026. (more…)

The Council is required by the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 to change its current executive arrangements to one of the following models. The Council invites your views (supported by reasons), as to your preferred Option.

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The Leaders of the London Borough of Bexley and Dartford Borough Council have jointly called for the publication of the report into the power outage that left thousands of their residents in the dark in July 2009.


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2009 saw 18 nominations from the Dartford community for the Reg Stapley Community Safety Awards. The Mayor of Dartford, Cllr. Jennifer Rickwood presented the awards at a ceremony held at the Council’s Civic Centre on Thursday 28th January 2010 and attended by friends and families of the nominees.
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One uninsured driver had his car seized and a waste carrier was taken off the road and its driver fined £300 during a road check held by Kent Police in Dartford town centre.
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Dartford Borough Council has been identified as making good progress in the areas of attracting businesses into the area, working with other organisations such as the Police to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, which is generally falling and for delivering benefits to people who need them quickly and efficiently.
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