I have read Cllr Spencer's reply to my letter "Rents pay for council estate clean up days," (Bolton Evening News, May 25), about the funding of clean-up days on council estates and I must say I am rather puzzled by his letter.
He states that these days are funded by "the rent budgets" and then goes on to explain how this is from the £250m that Bolton at Home is spending up until 2008.
As his organisation's magazine carries an article saying that this money comes from central government, does this mean that the government pays the rents for Bolton's council tenants?
He also states that "in this case" this money was used, so what about all the other clean-up days that have taken place?
As he admits in his letter that this service is provided free to non rent paying owner/occupiers who live on the estates what about the rest of us who don't live on an estate?
I ask again, is it morally or legally justifiable to charge for a service based entirely on where you live and in a lot of cases can come down to which side of the road you live on.
Mr C Berry, Whittle Grove, Bolton
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