6:39pm Friday 3rd September 2010
WITH council elections coming in May next year, will district councillors give us a real political choice and show us why we need all 60 of them in the current economic climate (or not)?
The district’s capital budget drops dramatically next year, so there is less call to commission expensive reports such as plans to re-site Adams Park, bus interchanges and the like.
Managing the sports, leisure facilities, and council housing stock in the district will very soon be completely hived off to the private or charitable sector. Controlling new house building will be less critical now that central government targets are to be relaxed, and anyway, there’s no more space! We already have parish councils to give us a sense of community, so perhaps now is the time to have a real debate about the merits of a unitary authority for Bucks.
We can all think of vital services that could be saved if governance was slimmed down and money redirected.
Sarah Lewis, Westover Road, Downley
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