But many councillors, including Ms Adams, said it has been too difficult to persuade council officials to go ahead with schemes they have suggested.
Labour group leader Sarah Adams had to return almost £56,000 in road improvement money
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown You ask your voters what they want and then you have to go to Suffolk Highways, where officials tell you why it can t be done, she said. Then you have to negotiate with them, eventually get a scheme together and then take it to Kier, where you have to go through the whole process again. At any point, it can fall apart.
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