Proposed cuts to Bradford Council’s budget are hitting rural locations such as the Worth Valley harder than the inner city, according to a ward councillor.

Glen Miller raised the concerns at the latest meeting of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council on Monday.

He said: “The cuts are disproportionately aimed at rural areas – they are only proposed cuts at the moment, but that could change.

“If we take out certain key indicators, Haworth is poorer than the centre of Keighley, which gets more resources.”

Parish councillor Peter Hill added: “Although we are the major contributors to council tax, we seem to be the ones suffering the worst cuts.

“We should bring this to the attention of the people preparing the budget in Bradford. Do they want to kill the golden goose that lays the eggs?”

Bradford Council’s leaders have warned they have to slash £115 million from their budget during the next three years.

They have revealed Haworth’s Treetops Children’s Centre is among seven such facilities across the district faced with having their funding withdrawn, as part of a move to save £2.4 million.

Responding to Coun Miller after the meeting, Bradford Council leader Coun David Green said: “The cuts are hitting everybody everywhere in the district.

“Instead of trying to make political capital, perhaps Coun Miller would be better off supporting councillors of all parties up and down the country who are making the point the government policy of imposing cuts on local government will make local government untenable.

“Councillor Miller and his group have not taken part in the budgeting process to date. I’d like to see his alternative plan of how to take more than £80 million out of the budget in the next two years without hurting anybody.”