Richmond Council is to scrap subsidies for allotments and cemeteries and will introduce bank holiday parking charges to make extra revenue.

Senior councillors will consider proposals put forward by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to generate £3m in revenue over three years and allow council tax to stay frozen for another year.

However, leader of the Liberal Democrats, Councillor Stephen Knight, said: “They claim they’re freezing council tax, but there’s a whole stream of steal taxes.

“It’s a Ryan air-style local authority where they give you a kind of price and the rest of it is made in hidden costs.”

He hit out at the proposal to introduce new adult social care charges, including introducing admin fees and interest on deferred payments, which is set to make the council more than £100,000 over three years.

About £816,000 is expected to be raised by applying charges for bank holiday and Sunday parking in the council’s off-street parking sites and issuing a £2 charge for evening parking at the council’s main car parks in Richmond and Twickenham.

Cemetery charges are set to be increased to provide the council with a income of £365,000 over three years, while the council is suggesting allotment associations would take over the cost of maintenance and water costs, saving the council about £185,000.

Councillor Tony Arbour, Richmond Council’s cabinet member for performance, said: “The council sets discretionary charges for many services where people can pay to use the service or not.”

A decision on the proposals will be made at a council cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

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