SO the council can spend £250,000 on proposals for a golf course development in Hoylake, with another £600,000 in the pipeline, at a time when they are having to save £132 million over the next four years.

The fact that the development will intrude on green belt land is bad enough but, for a council that pledged to support the most vulnerable in our region, they have already cut back massively on social care provision, closed care homes, closed special schools and have been heavily criticised in their provision of children’s services.

How can spending on a “golf resort” take precedent over the care and well being of vulnerable sectors in our society?

Judging from correspondence in your newspaper and from meetings in Hoylake, it seems that the vast majority of residents in Wirral are opposed to the councils golf plans, but the local authority continues to turn a deaf ear to this outcry.

It is time residents of Wirral demanded the council respect the views of its public before it fritters away a further half-million pounds of our council tax on daydreams.

TJE Roberts, Irby.