MID Devon District Council is to look at closing its Crediton Area Office with effect from April 1, 2016.

MDDC chief executive Kevin Finan has written to councillors about the plans, which could see the two members of staff at the Crediton office being placed “at risk” of redundancy.

Other MDDC staff reductions are also proposed and include one member of staff from Electoral Registration, one part-time member of staff dealing with communications and one part-time member of staff from economic development.

Mr Finan told councillors: “Following the detailed service review carried out over the summer to identify areas for budget reduction, a number of reductions have been identified, some of which unfortunately involve staff redundancies.”

He added: “These budget proposals and staff reductions will be brought to cabinet at their meeting on November 19 as we tackle the expected deficit for 2016/17.”

Crediton Mayor and district councillor Frank Letch and fellow district councillor, Bob Wright, said they are “furious” about the Crediton office closure plan, adding that that would be launching a campaign to fight the proposed closure.

• Read more in the Crediton Courier on Friday, October 23.

Alan Quick