People in Sefton will soon be paying more for council tax, to park their car in council-owned spaces and to visit their local leisure centre after the council’s budget plans were approved.
At a meeting of Sefton’s full council held at Bootle Town Hall last night, March 2, councillors from across the borough met to settle the budget for the coming year.
Proposals on the table included cuts to the borough’s highways budget and a large increase in spending on children’s services – with the ruling Labour group proposing a full council tax rise of 5% as well as increased fees for parking charges and at the borough’s leisure centres.
