Stirling Council unveil borrowing plans to pay for capital projects
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Stirling Council has voted to approve almost £4 million of additional borrowing and dip into £2 million in its reserves to fund capital projects.At last week’s budget meeting, a total of 89 capital projects were outlined across the forthcoming financial year including new priorities such as building on IT and digital investments and urgent improvements to the railway underpass at Stirling’s Burghmuir Road.As revealed in the Observer last month, the controversial Viewforth Link Road was left out of the 2021/22 capital budget.On the wider capital programme, however, Conservative group leader Neil Benny expressed his displeasure at “saddling future