Letter: How Telford council can save cash

Letter: Telford & Wrekin Council now faces a cut of £35 million. Cutting councillor numbers to 22 would save £224,000 per year and this is a saving that has been dodged for too long.

The council leader's salary should be linked to the average wage of a Telford worker.

The regeneration schemes, which will not create jobs, will cost us money we haven't got and quite honestly do nothing to drag Telford out of its economic problems. They should be cancelled and cancelled quickly.

These fanciful building projects should be scrapped and the money reinvested in supporting real community services that have been cut in the last four years.

We need to limit pay rises to senior management and need to reduce the number of managers and executive roles within the council.

This is a public service not a FTSE 100 company.

We need to be realistic about what salaries we pay to people in the top jobs.

No councillor should be in a pension scheme that's funded by the taxpayer, it's not sustainable in the long term.

The mismanagement of our council by the previous regime left many problems and broken promises.

People voted Labour in May for change and that means ending regeneration schemes, which are more like degeneration.

Oliver Healey

English Democrat

Hadley