On a meter, gone up from £38 a month to £57 a month. Yet my pension will go up 1.7% and all other bill shot up too. Marvellous.
Same as but where's the opportunity to switch supplier, where's the free market so companies can undercut rivals, Oh there isn't one so as it's a dictatorship they can do what the **** they like. So paying bonuses for underperformance and huge wages to company bosses is fine cos we'll just pass it on to the public. Labour have said they'll fine the water companies for breaches in the rules, we'll the companies just set up a piggy bank to pay with...thank you the great British public.
I assume with Yorkshire water needing us to stump up a eye watering(pun intended )24% to invest in there business they won't be paying share holders any dividends and the top brass won't be getting any bonuses. If it needs that level of investment we are all in this together surely Yorkshire water or are we just paying a monopoly and been taken for mugs.
similar to you 77 yo pensioner on meter going up from 26£ to 46£ estimated extra usage 1 cubic metre annual OUCH
Ours has gone from £66 to £85 a month which I’m sure they’ll spend on digging the ******* road up outside our house like they have done for the last 4 years.
23p in the pound of a Yorkshre Water bill goes to returns to investors. 37p on business costs including executive pay and bonuses. As others say, with it being a monopoly, I might just 'take back control' and opt to pay 23% less than they bill me.
I'm at the bottom end of Sheff, near the border to Derbyshire and on Severn Trent but it's the same story. Up nearly £250 in a 3 bed semi
Absolute disgrace. Years of lack of investment . Risk management they call/called it. Spunked millions up the wall doing emergency repairs. Penny wise pound foolish. Isn't the half of it.
I'm watching the BBC fly on the wall documentary with Thames Water. Absolutely clueless set of people at board level, just a staggeringly incompetent set of ******** artists. The only people with any credibility are the engineers and site staff who have to deal with the underinvestment and struggling systems. One guy has been there 30 years and has seen maintenance teams cut to the bone to extract profit for shareholders. Nobody has been able to explain how having essential utilities owned by private enterprise has been good for customers.
This is incorrect by the way. My bill is almost £900 for the year, direct neighbour (same payment terms, no support help, no meter) just under £600 for the year. Rateable value which cannot be changed nor appealed and set in stone in 1973 and that's what they still work to in supplying their bills to us. Makes absolutely no sense to me. But, nothing to do with council tax bands.
Thanks for that! I think I read about it on moneysavingexpert and just presumed it was correct. Always good to learn new things, especially as I’ve also posted similar elsewhere and I was unknowingly spreading misinformation.
I wouldn't worry about it, I would have assumed similar to what you said. Its only through trying to understand why we are paying so much more than our neighbour leads to that explanation I have been given.
Was my world. And they didn't even utilise the dept efficiently. Red tape being the biggest obstacle. Operations told to keep their budgets to a minimum not requirements. Hence maintenance sat on their arses. Bonkers. The lads on the shop floor stood idle. You seriously couldn't make it up. I/we used to have to beg for work. On many occasions. Only to be told nowt in your area. Whist **** was going to the river. In our area. If you spoke up. It was ignored. as I found out suffering the consequences on many occasions. Not that I was in the least bothered. When I first started we had more men and loads of work. Rarely anything at risk. Sometimes well on top of repairs to the assets. not having to bust yer balls, just chill at times. It was a pleasure to go to work. Comradeship. Pulling together for one another. Each trade helping out the other when at a loose end. Me and my fitter mate retired on the same day. I'd had enough.
