Kirklees increases rent for council house tenants

Feb 17 2010 by Barry Gibson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

COUNCIL house tenants will have to pay more rent from April.

Kirklees Council’s cabinet yesterday approved a 1% rise for 2010/11.

The average weekly rent will go up by 63p to £61.40 from April 5.

Council leader Clr Mehboob Khan praised Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing (KNH), which runs council properties in the district.

He said: “I’d like to compliment the officers at KNH for their excellent management which has allowed us to set a rent increase of a third of the current rate of inflation.”

All other council housing charges were frozen for 2010/11 at yesterday’s meeting in Huddersfield Town Hall.

Garage rents remain at £4.20 a week and parking spaces stay at £3.61.