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Council plans to freeze rent and heating costs
Tuesday 27th October 2009
Ealing Council is proposing to freeze rent levels for council tenants next year to help some of the borough's most deprived residents during the recession.

The proposals were announced at a meeting of the full council last night, together with plans to extend the current freeze on communal heating costs.

Earlier this year Ealing Council also led a campaign calling for boroughs to be allowed to set lower rents during the recession. Under the national rent convergence policy the council would normally be required to put rents up. Following the campaign by Ealing Council and other boroughs the Government agreed to relax the policy on rents for 2009/10 because of the rapid fall in inflation since September 2008. The Government has not yet announced how the policy will apply for rents from April 2010.

Cabinet Member for Housing, Councillor Will Brooks, said: "The last few months have been very difficult for a great many hard working families. I'm sure there are a lot of people who will be pleased that we are proposing to freeze rent levels and communal heating costs for council tenants."

The proposals will need to be formally discussed when the council's budget is set in spring 2010.
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