WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter
What are we paying for?
Dear HIP,
It seems that crime in our area is up and seemingly little or nothing done by police or the courts. Shoplifting in local stores now at an all time high. If and when caught, little or zero done about it, and police apparently not bothered unless more than £200 involved. What a great deterrent THAT is.
We have just received our Council Tax bill for 2026/27. It states that Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner funding is £281.91. Not having seen a police officer for around five months and just a small amount of police vehicles in the last year, and seemingly crime rising, we do wonder what exactly we are paying for.
Rother District Council and Bexhill-on-Sea Town Council receive a total of £308.70. Still the local roads are a total disaster and have been for more than five years, and that is without the Road Tax we pay. Sadly we are informed that little of our total Road Tax fund actually goes on the roads, we can certainly believe THAT!
Keep up the good work of informing the local public of the failings we experience in our areas.
Derek Stocker
Bexhill-on-Sea
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