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St Peters Highfields Leicester - Neighbourhood Website.

Astounding Arrogance

At no point did the elected representatives who tried to ride rough shod over the will of the communities effected ever try to actually consult those communities.

Willmott, Aqbany and co honestly thought that they could apply this outrageous charge and that people would meekly accept it.

This smacks of an astonishing level of arrogance that has neither gone unnoticed nor will be forgotten in this city.

LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL
IN 'DISTRICT HEATING' CHARGE RETREAT

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Residents could not be steam rollered...

In a humiliating retreat and astonishing U TURN... the likes of which have not been seen in Leicester since the naming debacle of 2007 over Hammerson's Highcross regeneration centre piece Leicester City Council were today struggling to explain why they have now abandoned the 76% price increase on District Heating and Hot Water charges.

The dramatic increase which was without historical precedent in Leicester adversely effected thousands of Leicester City Council Tenants in the neighbourhoods of St Peters, St Mathews and St Marks which are regarded as deprived neighbourhoods.

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Questions must surely be asked now as to how they could have got it so wrong. In a meeting on the 6th November 2008 at the town Hall just after the increase was announced, former Chair of St Peters Neighbourhood Management Board and local resident, Mel Gordon warned Hanif Aqbany that Leicester City Council had failed to gauge the mood and disposition of the people of the effected neighbourhoods to the increase and that come election time there would be a settling of scores over it.

During the meeting we pointed out to Hanif Aqbany that Leicester City Council had clearly been caught napping as regards the exposure of residents in St Peters and the other effects neighbourhoods to the costs of fuel on the world markets.

It was made clear that residents ought to have the ability to metre and control the use of the heating and hot water according to their own respective household budgets and requirements and that leicester City Councils failure to implement metering at an individual household level represented an appalling failure.