Town and parish councils could be sitting on “six-figure” sums which should be used for vital maintenance jobs, county councillors have said.
Plans to transfer environmental maintenance to town and parish councils will be considered by hard-up Shropshire Council as it ponders further cost saving measures.
“I’ve got very mixed emotions about this,” Councillor Joyce Barrow told a meeting of the scrutiny committee. However, councillor for Longden Roger Evans said he did not believe many parish level councils would be able to absorb the cost – and said that instead the authority should look at increasing its existing environmental maintenance grant programme, which fund matches parish councils up to a certain level for using local contractors to carry out the work.
“If some councils have those six figure sums, some of them will be CIL and they’ve got to be used for capital projects – they can’t be used for day-to-day spending.”
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