Opposition members of Nottinghamshire County Council have called on the authority to scrap plans for new offices and to invest the money in fixing roads. The Independent Alliance, which is the joint opposition at the county council along with Labour, has proposed amendments to the authority's budget plans for the next financial year.
The budget plans were unveiled earlier this year and are due to come into effect from April, with one of the major plans being a council tax rise of 4.84%. But at a full council meeting on Thursday (February 9), the Independent Alliance will call for major changes to the current plans.
In particular, the group is calling for an extra £20.5 million to spent on Nottinghamshire's roads over the next financial year. The Independent Alliance says this would be funded by using an estimated £9 million of approved highways reserve funding, and by cancelling plans for Nottinghamshire County Council to build a new office on the Top Wighay development.
