Leaders of the six north Wales county councils, including Gwynedd, have told the Welsh Government they can’t take any more cuts to their funding.

Authorities across the region have faced cuts to the amount of money they get from Cardiff.

In the letter Cllr Dyfrig Siencyn of Gwynedd, Cllr Sam Rowlands of Conwy, Cllr Hugh Evans of Denbighshire, Cllr Llinos Medi of Anglesey, Cllr Mark Pritchard of Wrexham and Cllr Ian Roberts of Flintshire councils demanded the Welsh Government change course.

The letter said: “As the leaders of the north Wales councils we are deeply concerned that without a significant change in funding policy for local government there will be a financial tipping point in the next financial year which will see the commencement of substantial cuts to valued services to the community.

“Teachers, social workers, librarians and all manner of other workers delivering local services will all be subject to job-losses without increased funding for local authorities.”

Their action follows on from council tax rises across north Wales this year.

Conwy hiked its rates by an inflation busting 9.6 per cent this year, following on from cuts to services including becoming the first authority in Wales to bring in monthly black bin collections.

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