CLIMATE CHANGE

The public want to see clear improvements across neighbourhood services

Paul O'Brien says the public will be fairly unforgiving if, having raised their expectations on public spending during the election campaign, they don't start to see evidence of this happening locally..

In a matter of days the country will have elected a new parliament to Westminster, so what will the public want to see at the top of ministerial in-trays?

It's very timely that Survation has just completed APSE's annual polling of public opinion on local government services. What it finds is that satisfaction with services is starting to drop and people are noticing a decline in their locality. They are also saying they want to see more of the tax that they pay given to councils to spend in their local area.

Paul O'Brien

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