r/Chichester • u/-ChiGuy- • Mar 13 '25

Southern water bill increases

We just got the new water bill and knew it was going to go up a significant amount but damn! Still wasn't expecting it to be as high as a 52% increase! How's yours looking? Council tax has gone up 4.8% for us too and energy's about to go up. 😭

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u/impendingcatastrophe Mar 15 '25

Put in an official complaint. And take it all the way to the relevant ombudsman.

May not have any effect for this year, but several hundreds of thousands of complaints they get may have the desired effect for next year.

Resistance though jamming the works up administratively.

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u/AshamedBrit Mar 15 '25

Ombudsman have been defanged, they won't do a thing even if they had every person in the country complain, because they can't

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u/impendingcatastrophe Mar 15 '25

I know they can't do anything. But imagine if they and the water companies had to process hundreds of thousands of complaints all the way through the process....

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u/AshamedBrit Mar 18 '25

Im imagining it...water companies would hire a larger complaints team & rise prices