A MOVE to encourage car-sharing by councillors was manoeuvred sideways at a West Devon Borough Council meeting last week.
The proposal by Liberal Democrat group leader Cllr Nicholas Waterhouse was to reduce mileage allowances for councillors travelling alone to meetings.
It would also have increased the 'derisory' 1p per mile offered as an incentive to councillors to accept inconveniences of car-sharing.
Cllr Waterhouse said the rates are still calculated in the same way as they were in 1974 when there was much less traffic on the road, and included a 'quite unintentional element of profit'.
He said it was 'a matter of principle' that the county did something towards the green agenda in saving emissions and tax payers' money.
But Cllr Waterhouse's motion was deferred, after the council accepted Cllr Roger Mathew's request that the motion be referred to a later meeting of the policy committee.