Investing in sustainable council services in Cheshire East
6 January 2023 Cheshire East Council has launched a consultation on proposals to find additional income and savings to ensure a balanced budget for the 2023/24 financial year – while continuing to deliver on the Council’s Corporate Plan. The council set a four-year balanced budget in February 2022. Since then, national and international economic factors have radically changed the forecasts on which that budget was based. General inflation is running at around 10 per cent currently, which is five times the national target of two per cent, which was the...
