Residents of an Essex estate have been experiencing water pipe problems and each of those residents will be billed £2,000 each to fix the problem. The residents learned of this just 2 weeks before christmas. The number of households to be billed are 556. The dealine of the residents to pay these bills is January 4. Those who pay before the deadline will receive a £30 discount. The residents are protesting paying these bills right before Christmas.

Key Takeaways:

• A local council has ruled that the water pipes under this estate need to be fixed to the tune of 2000 GBP
• They have also given each resident a total of 28 days to come up with this.
• This is part of a local scheme to extend the cost of local projects to people in a neighborhood instead of spreading it throughout the region.

“A local authority has been accused of stealing Christmas from hundreds of people on a housing estate by hitting them with bills of more than £2,000 each to fix external water pipes.”

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