Thread: How is your community being affected by the credit crunch?
Theme: The credit crunch and recession
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Remote and often forgotten
Re: Remote and often forgotten
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How is your community being affected by the credit crunch?
Tell us about the impact the current financial difficulties are having on employment, investment, property, community activity and economic development activity in your community.
Remote and often forgotten
Our upland community is as with many, without a bus service and even if we had one, no doubt the timings would not meet the needs as does a car. Often we hear that rural communities need a bus service, ideally yes. But, would the powers that be forget this tack. Upland communities need transport as and when and the continued raising of bus services is not a starter. If we had a bus service we would still need a car and we have therefore an inbuilt need for Insurance, fuel, maintenance etc of the car. (and the garage to do those jobs)
Please help the upland communities in lieu of buses etc with an extra grant to rural community rural councils to reduce Council tax which can offset to doing away with trying to make a bus service.
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Upland communities are almost exclusively in area where mains gas is not available and hence the power companies offers of discounts on gas and electricity duel fuels are not applicable. We in the upland communities are being penalised by the power companies for having no gas.
We are equally penalised in having to rely on oil as a fuel with its availablitiy/price and future unknown unknowns.
This fuel cost in upland communities runs alongside the need for car transport as in the first item.
These may be political areas of discussion but we in the upland communities are essential for farming/Tourism/industry/services and represent millions of people.
I know that over 2 million people in this land rely on oil for heating and all are disadvantaged by duel fuel discounts which they cannot benefit from. Is this not unfair trading and not the desire of a competitive power industry.
Re: Remote and often forgotten
Thanks for your post, we'll past your contribution on to our Uplands inquiry and Rural Economies teams.
