Steady Hands in Difficult Times

Your Conservative Council has always understood that, like every sensible family or business, we should only spend what we can afford and invest in schemes that can truly give opportunity to create prosperity for the future.

We predicted that the government would need to implement spending cuts and started to plan as early as June last year, in order that harsh grant reductions would not impact on our front-line services. We put in train a bold re-organisation of TDC's corporate management team to deliver savings in excess of £1 million per annum, which has helped us to deliver a balanced budget for 2011/12. We already have plans to deal with the further grant reductions that we know will hit us in the following year.

We are confident that we have completed a number of big projects that will have positive benefits for our communities and our manifesto describes how we will continue to deliver excellent services which are sustainable in the current economic climate and which represent good value for money over the coming four years.

Cllr. Bob Bayford Leader of the Conservative Group at TDC