Hundreds fill in survey on Mid Devon Council spending

The Mid Devon District Council survey is open until 13 December

Hundreds of Devon residents have given their views about how money spent on key services should be prioritised.

Mid Devon District Council spends £17m annually providing services, ranging from rubbish collections to leisure services and planning.

The council said its biggest single expenditure in terms of services was £2.2m on waste collection.

It said people could continue to take part in a survey until 13 December to say what they thought was important.

Annual budget balancing

The council's next largest service-based outgoing was £2m on planning and enforcement services and £1.6m on property maintenance, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The council said the money to pay for these services continued to reduce, creating a gap of more than £5m across the next five years.

It said more than £4m of savings had been found in the past decade.

The council is legally obliged to balance its budget each year.

The survey opened at the start of the November.

Topics include: climate change, dealing with economic pressures, and listening to how communities felt about services and where improvements could be made.

The survey was anonymous and a summary of the results were due to be published on the council's website, officials said.

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