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8 September - Where Bexley leads, Birmingham follows

Clean Air Zone Street namesBirmingham City Council is on the brink of bankruptcy and has announced that it will have to cut services to statutory levels. This may not be an entirely bad thing if there is less money to be spent on things like woke street names, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and rarely used cycling routes.

They are not going to be spending money on the Commonwealth Games again or extending Clean Air Zones.

Get used to it Brummies, Here in Bexley the Council has not provided anything beyond the statutory services for ten years or more. All that is left in public hands is Hall Place, management of which was outsourced but found to cost more money than the in-house operation.

The few remaining leisure centres are privately run and little luxuries like splash parks, golf courses and cinemas are all provided or paid for by private enterprise.

Bexley’s equivalent of The Birmingham Festival was last held ten years ago and the borough is mercifully free of LTNs and cycle lanes.

It may be pretty much devoid of the nicer things in life and have almost the highest Council Tax in London but it is not yet bankrupt and looking at a 10% Council Tax rise like in Croydon.

 

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