On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 11:39:34 +0100, Recliner
wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 03:34:41 -0700 (PDT), e27002
wrote:

On Jun 3, 11:00*am, Peter Heather wrote:
On Jun 3, 9:09*am, e27002 wrote:

On Jun 2, 10:39*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
e27002 wrote:
**However, until
1996 the mailing address was CHESSINGTON, Surrey. *And, many residents
think of themselves as part of Surrey. *None-the-less, they pay
Council Tax to the GLA.

Nobody pays council tax to the GLA, it is paid to the local burgh with
the GLA and Met Police taking their cut.

This would be well and good if they had voted to become Londoners.
They never did. *In 1974 they simply woke up within the GLC.

Actually it was 1965. And I'm not sure it was that much of a surprise.
Further east, Caterham and Warlingham UDC succesfully campaigned to be
left out of Greater London, only to be swallowed up into the
ridiculously named Tandridge District in 1974. Pity really as I would
be entitled to a Freedom Pass by now and our roads would be maintained
to a higher standard than the pathetic Surrey County Council manage.

But, you would be paying council tax at Surrey rates instead of GLA
rates.

Surrey council tax rates are slightly higher than Sutton:
Surrey:
http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/ctbene...ciltax1213.htm
Sutton: http://www.sutton.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=9145