"Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you look at my council tax compared to Bucks or Berks you will >see how much extra we have to pay which is attributed to supporting the >university of Oxford.
I'm not sure what that means. However, it may mean that the presence of the university in the town leads to certain loads on the infrastructure and social structure that the Council has to carry. Some of these loads are general, and so probably can be funded only by a general levy (e.g. Council tax). But others may be amenable to user charging, and perhaps the Oxford Council(s) have not been as forward in doing that as they might. But I don't know. However, what this really means is that the university is putting a load on the community, and therefore should pay it. Isn't that the opposite of what was originally being suggested, i.e. that the community should pay the waterways because it is benefiting from them? Careful! It may turn out to be the other way around. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
