Rotherham council tenants face 6% increase

ROTHERHAM council house rents are to rise by 6.19 per cent, councillors have decided.

It means a weekly increase of £4.30 — making the average rent £73.81 — and follows rises of 9.45 per cent last year and 8.7 per cent in 2011.

Cllr Rose McNeely, Cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: “I know only too well that many people living in council properties across the borough are facing a very challenging time at the moment and they will be looking to us to constrain any rent increase.

“We have done what we can, but our historically-low rents have resulted in us having to increase them year-on-year to meet the Government's rent convergence target in 2015/16.”

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