‘Eye-watering rise in council tax costs’

THE Tory MP for Crewe and Nantwich has drawn attention on Facebook to the proposed abolition of the Leighton Parish, and he has rightly requested residents take part in the consultation.

He stated that the proposal is to merge Leighton with Crewe Town Council.

It is not a merger. It is a full blown takeover by the town council. Leighton would have just two councillors out of 22 on the authority.

I am curious as to why he is not asking my constituents (and his) in Woolstanwood to respond as well?

They will be just as badly impacted. In fact, more so because the residents won’t be able to elect a councillor solely to represent them.

And, just like Leighton, they will have to pay a whopping, eye-watering 380 per cent increase (Band D) in their council tax.

In the three parish polls on June 10 carried out by the borough council, residents voted by massive majorities against the changes.

In Leighton, 98 per cent voted against abolition. In Woolstanwood, 97 per cent voted against. In Minshull Vernon, 68 per cent voted against merger with the Church Minshull Parish Council.

Despite this, the borough council is now consulting yet again.

I am now asking residents to continue to fight for their parish council to survive by responding to the consultation by November 28.

Residents need to tell the borough council that the abolition of the parish council has virtually no local support.

Residents need to tell the borough council again, because when it comes to democracy, they seem to have a deaf ear.

CLLR BRIAN SILVESTER LEADER, PUTTING CREWE FIRST