Council calls for outlying areas to boost city funds

AN SNP group has called on Scots living in areas outside Glasgow to pay tax towards city services.

- BY DOUGLAS DICKIE

Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken wants the Scottish Government to explore ways the city can raise more funds from its outlying areas.

She made the call in a response to the SNP executive's consultation on the future of council tax, backing a response from the council that said Glasgow was the “largest and most prominent” example of a local authority providing services “used by a population significantly larger than their tax base”.