Stockport council makes urgent appeal for fairer fundingThe council has come under major financial pressure. View 2 Images The council leader has urged the government to act (Image: Adam Vaughan / MEN)Cash-strapped Stockport council has made an urgent appeal to the government for fairer funding - warning that it is facing ‘unprecedented’ financial challenges. Just this week, Stockport council revealed that it was considering job cuts to its workforce, alongside plans to hike parking charges in the town centre. Stockport council leader Mark Roberts last week wrote to Alison McGovern MP, minister for local government and homelessness, with an urgent appeal for fairer funding. ‌The Stockport council leader concluded in his letter: “I therefore ask that Stockport receives the same funding increase protection guarantee over the settlement as other councils facing equivalent financial pressures.