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Wanstead Weekly Photo
Another treble bill for you, with photos from Bernie Brooks of the Basin on Overton Drive, our old friend Geoff Wilkinson, and the industrious wanstead_e11. Let us have your photos by sending them to info@wansteadium.com.
Council tax to go up
Council taxes in Redbridge are to rise for the first time in six years, the council has announced. A band D house will be charged an extra £24.69 a year, with an overall increase of 1.78%.
The council has been dealing with an overall reduction in funding from central government of £100m, and has been facing a steadily increasing population in the borough. Many of the savings have been made in so-called “back office” operations.
The full list of charges is as follows:
| Band | Property value | Charge 2016/17 | Charge 2015/16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A |  Up to £40,000 | £943.48 |  £ 927.02 |
| B |  £40,001 – £52,000 | £1,100,73 |   £1081.52 |
| C |  £52,001 – £68,000 | £1,257.97 |  £1236.02 |
| D |  £68,001 – £88,000 | £1,415.22 |  £1390.53 |
| E |  £88,001 – £120,000 | £1,729.71 |   £1699.54 |
| F |  £120,001 – £160,000 | £2,044.21 |  £2008.54 |
| G |  £160,000 – £320,000 | £2,358.70 |  £2317.55 |
| H |  More than £320,000 | £2,830.44 |  £2781.06 |
Ooh! Chic new Judith
Another win for distinguished Wanstead High Street signage.
Crime by the sea
Anyone fancying a trip to Sarfend this weekend could inhale a bit of culture along with the bracing sea air by dropping in on the Essex Book Festival, which will be featuring Wanstead’s own crime novelist Anya Lipska.
She will be appearing on a panel discussing the appeal of international crime fiction – a subject she knows something about, specialising as she does in telling criminal tales set among the East End’s Polish community. (Regular readers, including those who have read the extracts we’ve published in the past, will remember Anya’s settings… Green Man, Hollow Ponds, Walthamstow, Leytonstone High Street etc)
She says she feels a bit of a fraud, being the odd Brit on a highly cosmopolitan panel. But she adds: “Who could say no to a day out in Southend?”
The bottles… they’re art??
A neatly stacked henge of empty bottles of Martell cognac, spotted by Wansteadium reader @jenpot on Nelson Road, could – apparently – Â have been a bit of public art.A comment sent to Wansteadium by an anonymous user calling him or herself An Artist read:
I thought one of you lot might have put them in the recycle bin rather than just attract attention to yourselves. It is Art. I am getting it in early before the Art Trail, just a bit of live testing. Is anyone hurt? If so I will compensate them with a nice picture for you. As for a drinking problem? Not me, I got them all from your recycle bins! Now who has the problem.
If the Artist is telling the truth, it’s unlikely to impress JenPot who further tweeted last night that along with the bottles go broken glass and constant littering.