Without this funding, councils are less likely to investigate potential contamination – and its attendant public health risks – and local residents could be put to harm.
Paul Clement, executive director of Ipswich Central, said: "It's hard to sell at first because businesses are buying in to an expectation, but councils are less able to spend money on town centre management and the gap's got to be filled.
The supreme council is less and less popular, and everyone — election winners and losers alike — fears the future.
Not necessarily, because some members of the policymaking council are less hostile to the currency than others.
The Islamists and many of the returning exiles, a powerful caucus on the national council, are less keen on Mr Jibril's message of inclusivity and reconciliation.
Cynics could insinuate that the council is less interested in cleansing the Queen's highway of noisome refuse than in collecting £60.
In the financial hyperspace in which football operates, the cash they were clawing back from the council is less than might be lost on buying a single misfiring Spanish striker or gained on selling a magical Croat midfielder which, given the often-mentioned deprivation in the Northumberland Park ward in which Spurs' ground sits, looks outrageous.
My neighbour in the council flat upstairs put her hand against the hallway wall to steady herself when I recently told her how much rent we pay – her rent to Lambeth council is less than half the amount that flies out of my bank account at the end of each month.
A spokesman for Glasgow City Council was less chatty when I called, saying, "There is now a live planning application for the proposed development, which will be considered in due course".
And on Thursday, some of Mr. Williams's Council colleagues were less measured in their responses.
