New Plymouth pushes ahead with double digit rates rise
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English - June 13, 2023 20:47 - 3 minutes - 3.25 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The New Plymouth District Council has pushed ahead with an average rates rise of 12.4 percent despite being faced with an - at times - hostile Civic Centre crowd. They were fired up by revelations that 39 percent of property owners could face a rates hike of between 15 and 30 percent, and almost two thousand others an increase of between 30 and 50 percent. Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin was there.