Council voted last week to go ahead with the proposed rate rise for Manly Ward ratepayers and a decrease for everyone else. And it won’t be phased in. We will all be hit with an increase of up to 26% in our next rate bill, due at the beginning of the next financial year.

Below are charts comparing the current rates payable in each former local government area and future rates payable by every ratepayer across the land value ranges in the Northern Beaches Council.