Bury Council’s main opposition parties were voted down as the Labour-controlled council voted though plans in February, which will see council taxpayers in Bury face a 4.7 per cent rise in their bills in 2021/22.
In the financial package voted through by councillors, cuts announced include the closure of civic venues, as well as a £73m injection to three centres across the borough.Last-minute changes to their budget included halting the planned closure of Ramsbottom Civic Hall and a pledge to increase the wages of lower paid local authority and agency staff employed by the council to at least the national living wage.Opposition Conservative leader Councillor Nick Jones accused the Labour leadership of wastefulness in handling the borough’s.