Alliance has accused the DUP and Sinn Fein of a sectarian carve up over an £8m neighbourhood regeneration fund for Belfast.
Councillor Michael Long said his party opposed a new Shankill fund and criteria which he claimed would see East and South Belfast lose out on almost £650,000 of funding.
Alliance opposed the moves but they were approved at a meeting of City Hall s powerful strategic policy and resources committee meeting and are due to be ratified at tonight s council meeting. We are opposed to this latest attempt of a funding stitch up between Sinn Fein and the DUP, Mr Long said.
Local government auditor Pamela McCreedy. Picture by Darren Kidd/Press Eye 30 December, 2020 01:00
Andy Allen said a cost-benefit analysis of local government reform was long overdue. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye/PA Wire
THE COST and non-financial benefits of merging the north s councils in 2015 is to be examined for the first time.
The Department of Communities confirmation that it is to carry out the review comes after the local government financial watchdog recently found councils are spending beyond their means and getting further into debt.
Billed as the biggest shake-up in local government for a generation , one of the key arguments for reducing the number of councils in the north from 26 to 11 was to cut costs.