Many of you will remember the problems that I encountered with our Council over a prolonged period of time regarding the fees that we were being charged for our licenses. I wont bore you with all the details again except to say that up until June 2016 the cost of a 12 month vehicle license was £252.50 and it is now going to be £104.00 for a new license and £94.00 for a renewal. The annualised cost for the drivers license is also coming down by quite a lot.
Thanks to the help of a few people on here I was able to put forward the proposal for the methodology to be used and it just shows that I was right all along. It is just a pity that I was put in the position of resigning as a Councillor in order to complete the task.
I also believe that due to my resignation and subsequent questions at full Council resulted in the Council calling in James Button to review the Councils way of working and although the report has never been published in full, I think it showed that the Council were doing everything wrong and that they had to change to the methodology put forward by me.
I am sure that the local drivers will be queuing up to thank me for my efforts.