Opposition fails to amend budget

Efforts by opposition councillors to reverse seasonal toilet closures, fund regeneration projects and account for contingency spending were rejected at Arun District Council's annual budget meeting.

The Liberal Democrats failed to convince the Conservative majority that their plans to spend a ‘prudent’ amount of the council’s £8million reserves was the best approach at a meeting of full council last Wednesday.

The opposition’s proposals included a £1.35million pot to kickstart regeneration projects, including match-funded projects, with Littlehampton and Bognor Regis’s regeneration sub-committees asked to make recommendations to Cabinet on how best to utilise the funds.