From April 2011 Labour led Southwark Council increased council garage fees by a whopping 50% to £18.62 per week per garage. Ouch.

Well for 1,000 garage renters this has proven no problem. They were moved wrongly to the concessionary rate of £5 per week saving so far over £500 each.

This has only just come to light after a number of residents, scared at running up huge back bills, complained and raised the alarm. Whoever you are thank you. 

The Labour cabinet member has made it clear they wont be collecting any back rent owed and put the 1,000 mistakes down to “human error”. That’s an awful lot of errors.

Council finances run like a game of monopoly. So that means the £676,000 loss now has to be found.