Budget Update

On Wedensday afternoon the City Council set its budget for the coming year.

Some of the key concessions achieved by the Conservatives were:
1. Keeping the weekly bin collection.
2. Preventing the introduction of night time car parking charges.
3. Keeping Cobbett Road Library open.
4. Preventing planned cuts to vital children's social services.

In SHOLING we got an aditional £60,000 for traffic calming in Middle Road.

We were also able to presuade the Council to reduce the council tax increase from 3.5% to 3.3%.These things were funded by bureaucracy savings.During the budget debate

Labour Councillors were exposed over their U-Turn on providing free buses across Hampshire for pensioners and over their plans to close Oaklands swimming pool.