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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I hope they are a bit more efficient at handing out the £150 fuel rebate.
If Rishi Sunak wasn't a millionaire and his wife a billionaire with an office in Moscow, Rishi's idea of paying council tax payers an allowance of £150 to be used to pay towards their gas bill not forgetting the £200 compulaory LOAN towards the electricity bill: that ought to qualify for a sectioning on the grounds of hyperbolic delusion. Especially as the fuel increase seems predicted to be well over £1000.
I wonder whether if I simply deduct the £150 from the first two payments will the council will accept this?
Normally if you miss payments you get a letter saying that under the
(a)a demand notice has been served by a billing authority on a liable person,
(b)instalments in respect of the council tax to which the notice relates are payable in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, a Part II scheme, and
(c)any such instalment is not paid in accordance with that Schedule or, as the case may be, the relevant scheme,
the billing authority shall serve a notice (“reminder notice”) on the liable person stating—
(i)the instalments required to be paid,
(ii)the effect of paragraph (3) below, and
(iii)where the notice is the second such notice as regards the relevant year, the effect of paragraph (4) below.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the service of a reminder notice—
(a)where all the instalments have fallen due; or
(b)in the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4).
(3) If, within the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which a reminder notice is issued, the liable person fails to pay any instalments which are or will become due before the expiry of that period, the unpaid balance of the estimated amount shall become payable by him at the expiry of a further period of 7 days beginning with the day of the failure.
(4) If, after making a payment in accordance with a reminder notice which is the second such notice as regards the relevant year, the liable person fails to pay any subsequent instalment as regards that year on or before the day on which it falls due, the unpaid balance of the estimated amount shall become payable by him on the day following the day of the failure.
I know a woman who was charged with assaulting a Police Dog in the Poll Tax riot.
We are a docile lot nowadays.
If Rishi Sunak wasn't a millionaire and his wife a billionaire with an office in Moscow, Rishi's idea of paying council tax payers an allowance of £150 to be used to pay towards their gas bill not forgetting the £200 compulaory LOAN towards the electricity bill: that ought to qualify for a sectioning on the grounds of hyperbolic delusion. Especially as the fuel increase seems predicted to be well over £1000.
I wonder whether if I simply deduct the £150 from the first two payments will the council will accept this?
Normally if you miss payments you get a letter saying that under the
The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992
failure to pay instalments leads to court action to recover the full annual amount - seeFailure to pay instalments
23.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where—(a)a demand notice has been served by a billing authority on a liable person,
(b)instalments in respect of the council tax to which the notice relates are payable in accordance with Part I of Schedule 1 or, as the case may be, a Part II scheme, and
(c)any such instalment is not paid in accordance with that Schedule or, as the case may be, the relevant scheme,
the billing authority shall serve a notice (“reminder notice”) on the liable person stating—
(i)the instalments required to be paid,
(ii)the effect of paragraph (3) below, and
(iii)where the notice is the second such notice as regards the relevant year, the effect of paragraph (4) below.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the service of a reminder notice—
(a)where all the instalments have fallen due; or
(b)in the circumstances mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4).
(3) If, within the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which a reminder notice is issued, the liable person fails to pay any instalments which are or will become due before the expiry of that period, the unpaid balance of the estimated amount shall become payable by him at the expiry of a further period of 7 days beginning with the day of the failure.
(4) If, after making a payment in accordance with a reminder notice which is the second such notice as regards the relevant year, the liable person fails to pay any subsequent instalment as regards that year on or before the day on which it falls due, the unpaid balance of the estimated amount shall become payable by him on the day following the day of the failure.
I know a woman who was charged with assaulting a Police Dog in the Poll Tax riot.
We are a docile lot nowadays.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
At times, the moral depravity of those who run Lambeth Council appears unlimited:
Dementia patient charged more council tax after going into care
Dementia patient charged more council tax after going into care
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I agree this does seem gross, but that whole situation is not properly addressed by society at large.
There are quarter-hourly adverts on daytime TV about cheap funerals and their accompanying funeral plans which "leave more to your grand chlidren" - but dealing with loss of mental capacity in the case where you have property and no heirs - or distant heirs who are only interested in the money - is not addressed.
Anyone known what happens in the case of social housing? Do they clear out your belongings and cancel your tenancy and council tax at the point of admission to the care home?
Only asking.
editor
hiraethified
Lambeth council scoops up a hefty £2,737,179 in bus lane fines in a single year
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Lesson to be learnt: don't drive in bus lanes!
Lambeth council scoops up a hefty £2,737,179 in bus lane fines in a single year
New research has revealed that Lambeth is in the top three earners for bus lane fines, pocketing £2,737,179 in revenue from 46,609 fines last year.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Lesson to be learnt: don't drive in bus lanes!
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
Long legislation and process, short: once lack of capacity is confirmed and care home placement is made permanent usually after a 6 week trial, Court of Protection will appoint someone to complete ending tenancy paperwork on your behalf - probably an appointee at the council client affairs office. They'll manage your finances on your behalf including cancelling and amending bills, sorting out care home payment and ensuring benefits are in place, and care staff can access funds for whatever shopping you might need.
What happens to your material things varies, but I've seen plenty of Social Workers or Client Affairs Officers go out of their way to collect and bring people their own familiar clothes, photos, and mementos from home of there's no one else who can, and there's no clear instructions.
Mindful of veering off topic thou, so maybe one for another forum for any ongoing discussion on end of life planning.
editor
hiraethified
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"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Not an April 1st joke - but could have been.
This BBC Four feel-good show yesterday set my paranoia racing.
Villages by the Sea - Series 1: Walberswick
Apart from my salacious reminisces below I wondered which delightful Arts and Craft architect-designed pad our former Lambeth Chief Executive Henry Gilby had chosen as his country seat. Maybe the fabulous Tudor manor house?
For connoisseurs of Jackie Weaver and porn in the Lambeth Town Hall basement my memory was jolted to the conspiracy theories circulating in Lambeth in the early 1990s. Lambeth Interim Chief Executive Henry Gilby - a Buddhist it was generally pointed out in the press - had been a last-ditch appointee by the fag-end minority Labour administration of 1990-1994. It was said at the time that Henry had something on everyone. He had been promoted from Environmental Services Director at a sensitive time.
The previous Lambeth Chief Executive Herman Oussley had launched a major internal inquiry into council corruption, which the Labour administration kicked into the long grass by appointing Elizabeth Appleby QC to do a formal enquiry. Cue Herman Oussley's resignation I assume (though I stand to be corrected).
Anyway, holding the lid on the pressure cooker during this time was - Henry Gilby - the Buddhist dilettante with a country pile in Walberswick and reportedly Thomas Cromwell-like knowledge of everything that moved in Lambeth Council.
Of course many councillors and indeed concerned citizens were worried that the truth would never come out - but then Henry Gilby was persuaded retire and we had the amazing Sari Conway at which time the issue of "blue films" being made in the Town Hall lept into prominence in the "South London Press" and "The Sun".
Although Ms Conway was thought at the time to be a veritable "new broom" after insider and rumoured Freemason Henry Gilby, she had been appointed as yet another interim Chief Executive whilst Dame Heather Rabbatts served out her notice as Chief Executive of Merton Council. People will recall that Dame Heather solved anything that moved by privatisation - often privatisation which looked like privatisation but wasn't - remember the Client/Contractor split in Lambeth Housing when some homes were allocated to Metropolitan, some to Hyde Housing and some to Lambeth Homes (in-house management)?
But back to Henry Gilby - he has popped up Jackie Weaver style in Walberwick
Public applause greeted a Suffolk council’s return to duties this week – though the long-running disputes that have twice caused its collapse look set to rumble on.
Newly quorate Walberswick Parish Council (WPC) met for the first time on Monday night, almost 10 months after the latest round of mass resignations left it unable to function.
Parish chairman Esme Richardson opened the meeting with calls for a line to be drawn under the past grievances, which had seen a group of four villagers embroiled in a five-year row with WPC over accusations of council wrongdoing.
She said the council would now focus on “looking after the needs of our residents” and no longer consider “past criticisms”.
“We are now concerned with the present and future of Walberswick,” she added, prompting applause from members of the public present.
Tackling the agenda, councillors agreed funding for a 20mph speed limit scheme, discussed several planning applications and decided a timetable of meeting dates for the year to come.
They approved the payments of invoices from the council’s inquorate period, agreed to transfer ownership of the village’s playing field to the Commons Lands Charitable Trust and moved to act on the findings of a report on playing equipment.
But although these matters were resolved without drama, several financial issues remain potential causes for ongoing dispute.
John MacCarthy, one of the four previous complainants, referred to a public interest notice from auditors BDO, which criticised WPC for failing to submit its 2014/15 accounts.
He asked whether the council would follow BDO’s directions to hold a public meeting about the notice, now it was quorate. He previously expressed concerns WPC has not made its accounts for 2014/15 available to the public.
Raymond Catchpole, one of the newly appointed council members, who is also Walberswick’s district councillor, dismissed the report’s significance, claiming he had been advised it merely “closes the account” and there was no need for further consideration.
Henry Gilby, another of the four villagers who has previously criticised WPC, raised further financial concerns over the setting of a “default precept”, which he said was not a legitimate practice.
Highlighting government legislation, he said that while Suffolk Coastal District Council could “anticipate” a precept if a parish council did not set one, it could not be paid until the parish council agreed its budget. Mr Gilby said the council’s current approach could be deemed “unlawful”.
Mr Catchpole apologised for the choice of phrasing in the agenda, which he said was “shorthand” for the system through which SCDC could set a precept “in default of the parish council not submitting its application on time.”
“We’ve not been quorate and we’ve not been able to set a budget,” he added.
Public welcomes Walberswick council’s return - but are its troubles over?
[this article is from 2016 - updated 2020 - so I can't guarantee the reclusive old Buddhist is still alive BTW]
This BBC Four feel-good show yesterday set my paranoia racing.
Villages by the Sea - Series 1: Walberswick
Apart from my salacious reminisces below I wondered which delightful Arts and Craft architect-designed pad our former Lambeth Chief Executive Henry Gilby had chosen as his country seat. Maybe the fabulous Tudor manor house?
For connoisseurs of Jackie Weaver and porn in the Lambeth Town Hall basement my memory was jolted to the conspiracy theories circulating in Lambeth in the early 1990s. Lambeth Interim Chief Executive Henry Gilby - a Buddhist it was generally pointed out in the press - had been a last-ditch appointee by the fag-end minority Labour administration of 1990-1994. It was said at the time that Henry had something on everyone. He had been promoted from Environmental Services Director at a sensitive time.
The previous Lambeth Chief Executive Herman Oussley had launched a major internal inquiry into council corruption, which the Labour administration kicked into the long grass by appointing Elizabeth Appleby QC to do a formal enquiry. Cue Herman Oussley's resignation I assume (though I stand to be corrected).
Anyway, holding the lid on the pressure cooker during this time was - Henry Gilby - the Buddhist dilettante with a country pile in Walberswick and reportedly Thomas Cromwell-like knowledge of everything that moved in Lambeth Council.
Of course many councillors and indeed concerned citizens were worried that the truth would never come out - but then Henry Gilby was persuaded retire and we had the amazing Sari Conway at which time the issue of "blue films" being made in the Town Hall lept into prominence in the "South London Press" and "The Sun".
Although Ms Conway was thought at the time to be a veritable "new broom" after insider and rumoured Freemason Henry Gilby, she had been appointed as yet another interim Chief Executive whilst Dame Heather Rabbatts served out her notice as Chief Executive of Merton Council. People will recall that Dame Heather solved anything that moved by privatisation - often privatisation which looked like privatisation but wasn't - remember the Client/Contractor split in Lambeth Housing when some homes were allocated to Metropolitan, some to Hyde Housing and some to Lambeth Homes (in-house management)?
But back to Henry Gilby - he has popped up Jackie Weaver style in Walberwick
Public welcomes Walberswick council’s return - but are its troubles over?
Parish council holds its first meeting in 10 months.Public applause greeted a Suffolk council’s return to duties this week – though the long-running disputes that have twice caused its collapse look set to rumble on.
Newly quorate Walberswick Parish Council (WPC) met for the first time on Monday night, almost 10 months after the latest round of mass resignations left it unable to function.
Parish chairman Esme Richardson opened the meeting with calls for a line to be drawn under the past grievances, which had seen a group of four villagers embroiled in a five-year row with WPC over accusations of council wrongdoing.
She said the council would now focus on “looking after the needs of our residents” and no longer consider “past criticisms”.
“We are now concerned with the present and future of Walberswick,” she added, prompting applause from members of the public present.
Tackling the agenda, councillors agreed funding for a 20mph speed limit scheme, discussed several planning applications and decided a timetable of meeting dates for the year to come.
They approved the payments of invoices from the council’s inquorate period, agreed to transfer ownership of the village’s playing field to the Commons Lands Charitable Trust and moved to act on the findings of a report on playing equipment.
But although these matters were resolved without drama, several financial issues remain potential causes for ongoing dispute.
John MacCarthy, one of the four previous complainants, referred to a public interest notice from auditors BDO, which criticised WPC for failing to submit its 2014/15 accounts.
He asked whether the council would follow BDO’s directions to hold a public meeting about the notice, now it was quorate. He previously expressed concerns WPC has not made its accounts for 2014/15 available to the public.
Raymond Catchpole, one of the newly appointed council members, who is also Walberswick’s district councillor, dismissed the report’s significance, claiming he had been advised it merely “closes the account” and there was no need for further consideration.
Henry Gilby, another of the four villagers who has previously criticised WPC, raised further financial concerns over the setting of a “default precept”, which he said was not a legitimate practice.
Highlighting government legislation, he said that while Suffolk Coastal District Council could “anticipate” a precept if a parish council did not set one, it could not be paid until the parish council agreed its budget. Mr Gilby said the council’s current approach could be deemed “unlawful”.
Mr Catchpole apologised for the choice of phrasing in the agenda, which he said was “shorthand” for the system through which SCDC could set a precept “in default of the parish council not submitting its application on time.”
“We’ve not been quorate and we’ve not been able to set a budget,” he added.
Public welcomes Walberswick council’s return - but are its troubles over?
[this article is from 2016 - updated 2020 - so I can't guarantee the reclusive old Buddhist is still alive BTW]
BusLanes
Pedestrian
That is disgraceful. Clocking in to get his allowance and Lambeth or Vauxhall Labour just letting it happen
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The denudation of any meaningful character continues apace on the South Bank
On Wednesday the SLP carried this alarming report of the Lambeth Planning meeting which approved the demolition of the London Weekend Tower (now known as ITV Studios). This will be replaced with more high-rise schlock designed to dwarf the National Theatre and the Festival Hall.
londonnewsonline.co.uk
Cllr Scott Ainslee from Lambeth’s Green group asked whether planning officers would suggest constructing a building of a similar size next to the Notre Dame. Speaking at the meeting on March 29, he said: “Would we be bringing this building right next to the Notre Dame? The South Bank is our cultural centre. It’s our offer to the world. I don’t think you would be putting that sort of building to upstage the Sydney Opera House. I would argue that the National Theatre should be a World Heritage site.”
Scott Ainslee is the only non-Labour member of the Planning Committee.
On Wednesday the SLP carried this alarming report of the Lambeth Planning meeting which approved the demolition of the London Weekend Tower (now known as ITV Studios). This will be replaced with more high-rise schlock designed to dwarf the National Theatre and the Festival Hall.
ITV Studios tower on South Bank to be flattened after new massive blocks approved
Lambeth council greenlit plans for the huge development including restaurants, shops and a new gallery brought by developers Mitsibishi Estate London and CO-RE at a planning meeting on March 29.
londonnewsonline.co.uk
Cllr Scott Ainslee from Lambeth’s Green group asked whether planning officers would suggest constructing a building of a similar size next to the Notre Dame. Speaking at the meeting on March 29, he said: “Would we be bringing this building right next to the Notre Dame? The South Bank is our cultural centre. It’s our offer to the world. I don’t think you would be putting that sort of building to upstage the Sydney Opera House. I would argue that the National Theatre should be a World Heritage site.”
Scott Ainslee is the only non-Labour member of the Planning Committee.
editor
hiraethified
Look at the state of itThe denudation of any meaningful character continues apace on the South Bank
On Wednesday the SLP carried this alarming report of the Lambeth Planning meeting which approved the demolition of the London Weekend Tower (now known as ITV Studios). This will be replaced with more high-rise schlock designed to dwarf the National Theatre and the Festival Hall.
ITV Studios tower on South Bank to be flattened after new massive blocks approved
Lambeth council greenlit plans for the huge development including restaurants, shops and a new gallery brought by developers Mitsibishi Estate London and CO-RE at a planning meeting on March 29.
Cllr Scott Ainslee from Lambeth’s Green group asked whether planning officers would suggest constructing a building of a similar size next to the Notre Dame. Speaking at the meeting on March 29, he said: “Would we be bringing this building right next to the Notre Dame? The South Bank is our cultural centre. It’s our offer to the world. I don’t think you would be putting that sort of building to upstage the Sydney Opera House. I would argue that the National Theatre should be a World Heritage site.”
Scott Ainslee is the only non-Labour member of the Planning Committee.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
Here is a small dose of the reality behind Lambeth Council's public relations department's talk of "meaningful, educational and joyful tributes to the huge contribution made to British life by the Windrush Generation":
Grandmother forced to wash in a sink because council refuses to install stairlift
(Source: londonnewsonline.co.uk)
83 year-old disabled grandmother and asthma sufferer, Mlynn Thomas, has to wash in the downstairs toilet sink and sleep in her living room.
Gran, 83, still in sheltered housing 8 weeks after being told flat repairs would take 3 days
(Source: Josiah Mortimer / MyLondon)
83 year-old disabled grandmother and asthma sufferer, Mlynn Thomas: "I’m living in such a state now - I feel dead, just terrible."
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
Lifted from Buzz back in Feb.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I should put in your invoice!
editor
hiraethified
There's some shocking details in this report:
A Council in Denial: People’s Audit shine a light on Lambeth’s financial mismanagement with overpayments to contractors and spiralling cost of Your Nu Town Hall
The People’s Audit has delivered its second report on the financial failings of Lambeth Council.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Just saw Gove has paused this project
Make’s South Bank tower plans halted by Gove
Housing secretary Michael Gove has issued an Article 31 notice halting work on Make’s redevelopment of the ITV Studios site on London’s South Bank
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
editor
hiraethified
Thank fuck for that. Lambeth really are an appalling council.Just saw Gove has paused this project
Make’s South Bank tower plans halted by Gove
Housing secretary Michael Gove has issued an Article 31 notice halting work on Make’s redevelopment of the ITV Studios site on London’s South Bank
editor
hiraethified
Blimey!
EXCLUSIVE: Bailiffs come knocking at Lambeth Town Hall looking to recover debt of over £1 million from Lambeth Council
A Brixton Buzz Freedom of Information request has highlighted how bailiffs turned up at the Town Hall demanding more than £1m.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
He worked as Finance Officer for Greater London Action on Disability at 336 Brixton Road in the 1990s. I quite liked him - and consequently wondered why on earth he was a Conservative, not that he spoke of politics much in conversation. He left GLAD maybe 1998 - his leaving do at the Windmill on Clapham Common was something to behold.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Very interesting!
I wonder if part of it is that where one lives to some degree determines party affiliation. Living in either a one party council like Lambeth or one like Wandsworth that effectively seemed like that, pushes the ambitious to join the super dominant party.
Or if he's just one of those people who was rapped on the shoulder to stand.
I wonder if part of it is that where one lives to some degree determines party affiliation. Living in either a one party council like Lambeth or one like Wandsworth that effectively seemed like that, pushes the ambitious to join the super dominant party.
Or if he's just one of those people who was rapped on the shoulder to stand.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
He might have a loyalty to the Ted Heath way of seeing things - as a Ugandan Asian who arrived in Britain as a teenager?
More than can be said of Priti Patel.
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
... and now moral depravity combined with total incompetence ...
Council wrongly demanded £36,000 from seriously ill man to pay for care home
Local Government Ombudsman: "I consider the council’s failings have been serious, longstanding and indicative of wholesale service failure and poor administrative practice."
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Seems Cambridge Council will debate banning of overseas marketing of homes on ex-council sites at their AGM tomoorow.
A big problem in Cambridge.
Doubt Lambeth had any such idea. No sign of such discussion at Lambeth Council AGM tonight - probably part of their "business model"
A big problem in Cambridge.
Doubt Lambeth had any such idea. No sign of such discussion at Lambeth Council AGM tonight - probably part of their "business model"
