DEAR Steve Patrick and Aylesbury Town Council, it is not often that I find myself going out of my daily routine to voice a complaint but I have to express to your kind selves my disappointment at the vast rise in council tax (32.8 per cent!) on my latest bill.

Not only this, but you then recently delivered your colour glossy magazine and didn't have one article in there to explain the dramatic rise, just a clever introduction where you tell us every household only pays an extra 20p a week.

The bill mentioned that this rise was for cemeteries but Margaret's article didn't mention any action had been decided or is going to take place apart from planning permission for a change of use even though this is not necessary.

So what is the money for exactly? Surely a decision has to have been made for such an increase to be earmarked for this. I do hope it's not to buy a new plot out of town.

To quote the actual article "in the interest of transparency" I thought 32 per cent would have been mentioned.

I hope for the good reputation of the council, I still have the right to be buried in my home town if misfortune does happen and the grim reaper pays me a visit. I can't believe these gardeners even consider opposing extending the cemetery or that the council is even pandering to them and pussy footing around them with this planning permission.

Am I right to believe that after a lifetime of paying local taxes, a carrot has more right than me to be buried in my home soil!


Brian Wilson
Aylesbury