LETTER: Profligacy leads to '˜only options'

Just had a blackmail note through the door entitled '˜Eastbourne Review' apparently from a Cllr David Tutt. Without going into the merits (or not) of the council's spending, this missive shows an amazing new slant on financial planning '˜spend first '“ worry later'.

Evidently the council didn’t have the money for it’s contribution to the Devonshire, Arndale and Sovereign developments although they’ve all been agreed and/or started.

Now their profligacy has led to the ‘only options’ of downland farm sales or cuts to local services.

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Perhaps we should have been asked before the council committed us to these projects – or is that too much like ‘a plan’?

There is no mention of the £2m contribution following the pier fire or the £1.2m that must be left from that as we still do not have a Wish Tower restaurant.

What is even more worrying is that there have been mentions that the council is going to invest in ‘income producing assets’. With their financial record – they must be joking!

ROY MORRIS

Edensor Road

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