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The survey involved on-line and paper questionnaires and a ‘spendometer' at the Civic Centre in Folkestone during National Customer Services Week in October where customers could indicate their budget priorities by dropping gold, silver and bronze pin-pong balls into the relevant tube.

The choices for spending were: clean streets, improving opportunities for sport and leisure, well-maintained parks and open spaces, affordable housing, opportunities for young people, and keeping Shepway safe.

Affordable housing emerged the highest priority, with keeping Shepway safe in second and opportunities for young people in third place.

Other questions in the survey covered value for money from council tax and what services the council should spend more, or less, money on to help it ‘balance the books.'

Cllr David Monk, Cabinet Member for Finance, said a detailed analysis of the results would be included in the Medium Term Financial Strategy that will be considered by Cabinet in January.