At the annual City Council budget meeting, the ruling Labour group has settled for a weak compromise with the LibDems.

Green Group leader Craig Simmons described the resulting budget as a "dog's dinner", which left out not only many good ideas from the Greens' budget proposal, but also many of the best ideas in the original Labour and LibDem budgets.

Even the Deputy Leader of the Labour group described the Greens' budget as workable, but said it was "too green" for the Labour group to consider!

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At the first City Council meeting of the new year, the Green Party successfully blocked the latest in a long line of attempts by the ruling Labour Group to centralise the planning system.

A Green Group motion from Cllr Elise Benjamin - vice chair of the central planning committee (SDCC) and a former chair - forced Labour to reinstate (on Council documents) the names of those Councillors responsible for 'calling in' a planning decision.