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Stockport residents facing 3.5 per cent council tax rise from April

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Council tax is set to go up by 3.5pc in Stockport from April under new budget proposals for the coming financial year. It means an average Band D household faces paying out an extra £61.25 over the course of the 12 months - which works out as just over £5 per month.

This will put bills up to £2,120.40 before Andy Burnham’s mayoral and policing precepts come into the equation, to make up the final figure. READ MORE : Stockport residents who currently park for free outside their homes could soon be made to pay Earlier this year town hall chiefs identified £10m in savings which they said would ‘enable new ways of working whilst delivering a robust and resilient budget’.

But this still left a further £10m to find through council tax, business rates, reserves, grants and one-off monies. The council tax rise is made up of a 1pc increase in the general levy and a 2.5pc uplift in the adult social care precept (1.5pc deferred from last year).

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