People Before Profit have been challenged by Belfast City Council to come up with an alternative to raising the district rates by the end of this week.
At the monthly full council meeting, held on Tuesday (January 1), PBP Councillor Matt Collins called for no increase to the council tax. People Before Profit were the only party indicating a challenge to a rate increase at the meeting.
Councillor Collins said: “I think it is six years in a row now that we have seen increases in the rate. It is not a small or marginal or ineffectual increase, in the way it is often presented, because we have seen so many increases subsequently over so many years now.”
