NORTH-west Glasgow residents are facing a raft of new council spending as well as higher taxes and charges to cover the bill.

Glasgow City Council passed its first SNP budget on Thursday with council tax to rise by 3 per cent for the second year in a row.

Despite a multi-million pound budget gap, the council moved to bring an end to a dispute over temporary cleansing jobs by extending contracts, as asked by union officials. City treasurer Allan Gow also announced the temporary posts would be replaced by 150 permanent jobs.

Thousands more children will qualify for free school meals with £1.5 million being set aside to extend it to all P4 pupils.

They also committed to putting £2m to hot meals for children during school holidays.

And the SNP will break-up arm's length organisation Cordia - which employs thousands of home carers, school janitors and runs the council's catering service. If a review backs the idea, then janitors would transfer to development and regeneration services, while home carers go to health and social care and catering to Glasgow Life.

In other spending, the council is doubling the roads repair bill from £11m to £25.3m in 2018/19.

To pay for the new projects, charges for on street parking in the city centre zone and the zones outside will be raised and residents will be charged extra for a parking permit outside their home.

Free on street parking on a Sunday will be scrapped to bring in an extras £400,000.

Parking attendants already work on a Sunday and there will no no extra staffing costs.

For the streets outside the city centre where parking controls are in place prices will also go up.

The cost just now is £3.20 for a three hour period which will rise by 25% to £4 for three hours Residents who live in those street who have a parking permit will see it jacked up by £35 a year Other charges that are increasing include nursery charges.

The budget document shows a rise in early years charges from £254 per hour to $4 per hour from August this year and again to £5 per hour the following year.

The move is expected to bring in £1.25m a year.

Labour criticised the plan to increase nursery charges stating it was hitting young families.

Other charges going up include for burials and cremations.

The charge for a cremation will go up from £605 to £650.

The SNP said it brings the city in line with the Scottish average for cremations and will help fund essential work at Daldowie and Linn.

Burial charges at the city’s cemeteries will also rise by 10% to £980 for an interment and £1,209 to buy a lair.

Glass recycling bins will only be picked up once every two months to save £80,000 while there will be a review on how often streets are cleaned and bins emptied to save £400,000.

Council tax 2018/19

  • Band A £857
  • Band B £1000
  • Band C 1143
  • Band D £1286
  • Band E £1689
  • Band F £2089
  • Band G £2518
  • Band H £3150