Falmouth Town Council is to delay setting next year's budget until the new year following previous complaints from some councillors who claimed they were not given enough time to properly consider the information before them.

The council has been working on its 2017/18 budget for some time now and individual councillors and the heads of council services have put forward their suggestions/requirements to the chair and vice-chairs of the relevant council committees.

A meeting of the finance sub-committee will now be held to consider the draft budget, to which all councillors will be invited to attend to hear the debate. Proposals from that meeting will then be taken back to a meeting of the full finance committee, which all councillors sit on.

The recommendations in the draft budget are due to be considered by the finance and general purposes committee on November 27. The finance committee will then agree a budget on January 8 which is due to be ratified by the full council on January 22 and the precept agreed.

Budgets had previously been agreed at the council's December meetings, but in recent years this has led to calls from some members, including Mathew McCarthy and Steve Eva, to delay matters. They claimed they had not been given enough time to consider the budget or consult with residents within their wards.