Rate Unchanged – Conisbrough Figure Stays at 24s.

March 1958

South Yorkshire Times March 15, 1958

Rate Unchanged
Conisbrough Figure Stays at 24s.

Conisbrough Urban Council decided on Wednesday to maintain the district rate at its present figure of 24s. in the f for the next financial year, despite a drop of £5,729 14 the rateable value of the Urban district.

Coun. David Sheldon, chairman of the finance committee, said despite the present restrictions on capital expenditure the Council intended going ahead with a scheme for building an old people’s community centre and old people’s bungslows and within the next two here’s £50,000 was to be spent on a reconstruction scheme for Denahy sewage disposal works. Ultimately, £120,000 was to be spent on this project.

He said other items amounting to an increase of £4,011 had been cancelled In order to maintain the rate at its present figure. The scheme for the laying out of a park in the quarry at the junction of Crookhill Road and Doncaster Road had been deferred and the West Riding County Council had been asked to-safeguard a grant of £1,000 which they had agreed to make towards the cost of this project.

Coun. Sheldon said that although they were supplying all the services for miners at Denaby and Cadeby, collieries got very little in return In the way of rates from the collieries

Surrounding parishes under which coal was mined, get far more than they did.