BUILDING IN HALSWELL

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29972, 6 November 1962, Page 12

BUILDING IN HALSWELL

Decline In Last Year

Building in Hals well county had declined considerably in the lost year, said the retiring chairman of the Hakwell County Council (Mr H. Cox) in bis report at the annual meeting yesterday. " Mr Cox said 209 building permits valued at £284.392 were issued compared with 290 permits valued at £527,668 the previous year. The decrease, suggested Mr Cox. was probably due to tighterugn of credit and no sanitary service (septic tanks not being permitted >. On the subject of county valuation and rates Mr Cox gave figures for the last five years. In the financial year ending 1963 the county’s rateable value was £4,761.975 and the general rate levy was £I7JBO. In 1959 the rateable value was £2,743,315 and the levy £9999. The council’s subsidised reading works programme for the year ending March, 1963, was estimated to be £21,000. Of this amount, he said, four-sevenths would be contribiited by the council and the remaining threesevenths. a £9OOO subsidy, was payable by the National Roads Board. Mr Cox said that the council ended the year to March 31. 1962. with a credit balance of £6272. Income from all sources totalled £40.064 8s 3d. He said expenditure during the same period was £43,117. Mr Cox said the council at present was working on overdraft but the bulk of the rates had still to come in.