No one can waste money like Dorset County Council.

Having spent £748,000 on consultants to advise on cost cutting – is it really April Fools Day? – councillors and officers are seemingly oblivious to where money is being wasted.

At the top of Spa Road, by the junction with Ullswater Crescent, workmen have spent several weeks narrowing the road and still haven’t finished.

Why the road should be narrowed is not clear, as there is only one house on this stretch of road and it’s not difficult to cross.

In fact, a lot of public money has been spent in making the road through Radipole Village much more dangerous than it needs to be, with the road width already deliberately constricted in three places.

If county councillors have money burning holes in their pockets, then lights should be installed on the Wey river bridge and the blind bend.

Traffic lights in Radipole village were ruled out some years ago as too expensive. Yet the council can afford to spend weeks needlessly narrowing another part of the road.

More money was wasted throughout another winter by the Park & Ride buses running empty most of the time – a loss-making folly financed by council tax payers.

Nobody at County Hall seems to have noticed. Instead of giving three quarters of a million to consultants, all it needs is to talk to local people. They are the best consultants of all.

Michel Hooper-Immins, Radipole, Weymouth