BRADFORD Council’s opposition Conservatives have revealed their alternative savings plans ahead of tomorrow’s budget meeting.

The authority is having to make savings of £82m by 2020, and the Tories’ proposals include keeping open Queensbury and Bingley pools as well as the district's public toilets, saving seven under-threat community halls, maintaining free parking schemes and reversing cuts to foster carers’ allowances.

Group leader, Councillor Simon Cooke, said the Conservatives would fund these measures through cutting senior councillors’ allowances by five per cent, ending support for trade unions, abolishing the Council’s climate change unit and saving on office cleaning, among other things.

He criticised Labour's plans, saying: “No-one denies the challenges facing Councils – this is one of the toughest budgets we’ve ever had to manage – but spiteful attacks on local communities still seem to be Labour’s preferred approach.”

But he said they were not proposing any change to Labour’s plan of upping council tax by 4.99 per cent, including a three per cent social care levy.

He said this year’s budget presented challenges, “especially in adult social care”.

Criticising his own Government’s funding of the care system, he said: “We hope that Government will listen to voices in local government and the private sector in care who are clear that the current funding levels, methods and arrangements are not able to deliver a sustainable system of support for the elderly and vulnerable.”

The Council’s Labour leader, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe, yesterday unveiled her group’s final proposals, saying they were finding ways of maintaining as many valuable community facilities as possible, while “accepting that the Council might have to pass them on to others to manage”.

She added: “It is in all our interests to maintain a good quality of life for all people in the Bradford district, regardless of where they live.”

The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, will not be making any proposals to amend the budget.

Group leader, Councillor Jeanette Sunderland, said she would instead be making some comments at the meeting.

She said the budget veered so far from what she would choose to do, she could not simply suggest a few tweaks.

She said: "I don't agree with any of it."

The budget meeting begins at 4pm tomorrow at City Hall. The Telegraph & Argus will be running a live-blog throughout the meeting.