Proposed council levy ‘blackmail’
Territorial authorities are being "blackmailed” by the region’s planning body, says the Ellesmere County Chairman, Mr Mic Walker. Mr Walker referred to comments at a recent Canterbury United Council meeting over moves to
levy councils for outstanding contributions to promotion and recreation. “It is a form of blackmail ... that if you don’t pay you will finish up with a regional council and be levied,” he said. Mr Walker continued his attack on the United
Council by criticising the chairman, Mrs Margaret Murray, and the chief executive, Mr Malcolm Douglass, for keeping the constituent members in the dark. * “Things are being done that we don’t know about,” he said.
If the United Council; were reorganised into a regional authority, councils such as Ellesmere would lose the input they had at present and landowners would be rated direct by the new council, Mr Walker said.
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