Surrey Heath council making large cuts to help balance books
The council is looking likely to do away with smaller community theatre projects, take only a "crowd-pleasing" approach to the pantomime and bring in a more mainstream programme, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.Nick Steevens, the council's chief executive, told the July meeting of the performance and finance scrutiny committee: "What we did was focus on the £3.14m which is essentially us trying to balance the cost of service against the income coming into the council."The focus is to see us toward local government reorganisation or through this medium term, but in truth we are doing very well."I think that this is an absolute success." In May the council offered two plots of land for sale in a bid to help ease its financial problems.
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