I refer to the three letters in the BFP (April 18) from Cllrs Woolf, Hall and Done attacking Cllr Green and me for defending the highly cost effective High Wycombe Town Committee model of local governance which avoids the need for a Town Council in High Wycombe.

It provides the residents of High Wycombe with even more democratic control of their affairs than a Town Council might but at a far lower cost. In response to Cllr Woolf, it is not a sinister system by which a Conservative Cabinet on Wycombe District Council keeps control of the town.

As I explained in an earlier letter, in the 19 years I have served on the Town Committee I have known the cabinet to amend a HWTC recommendation once and that was to reduce a proposed increase in cemetery charges!

I note Cllr Hall still peddles this same misconception, but interestingly he declines to provide comparative figures for Princes Risborough and High Wycombe, calling such an action “mudslinging”. Cllr Done employs the age-old tactic of a politician desperate to explain away an increase in costs by breaking it down into a daily cost to diminish its relevance. Incidentally he is right about the Charter Trustees’ costs.

These amount to £2.11 per Band D property, which means using his methodology one could buy two-and-a-third copies of the Bucks Free Press with it per year. I believe it should be the aim of councillors to deliver services at the lowest cost to their residents so that they can spend their hard-earned money where they wish rather than have councillors spending it for them on often ego-trip schemes.

That is why I am so passionate to keep the High Wycombe Town Committee.

Roger Colomb, Independent (Real Conservative), Terriers and Amersham Hill Ward