Won’t removing plan requirements in less high-profile service areas (eg countryside or libraries) mean that such services will be even further downgraded / lose funding?
A29. Currently local authorities are rightly already free to decide on their relative priorities and funding levels, based on local need: such decisions shouldn’t be based on the existence of statutory plan requirements even now. It is certainly not in the Assembly Government’s interest to skew local priorities and funding decisions in this way, and we have never required the completion of plans with that in mind.
Related Questions
- Won’t removing plan requirements in less high-profile service areas (eg countryside or libraries) mean that such services will be even further downgraded / lose funding?
- Won’t removing plan requirements exclude voluntary and special-interest groups from the service planning and objective-setting processes?
- What does service mean and what are the service requirements ?
