A COUNCIL is freezing the amount of tax it charges residents for the next two years.

Eastleigh Borough Council wants the same tax to be charged until 2016 which would mean five years of zero increases.

Leader Keith House said: “Given the tough financial time being had by many of our residents we will be freezing our council tax for another two years until 2016.

“This will give Eastleigh Borough residents a total of five years of zero increase in their council tax and 12 years in a row of council tax being reduced in real terms – and this has been achieved without reductions in frontline services.”