"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:44:28 on Sat, 3
Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked:
AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs
don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular,
those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up
paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors.

They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area
visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a little to
take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those who don't want to
do that.

I can't remember where it is but there is at least one council who quite
happily admits to making a profit on the current deal

tim