Paying for garden waste collections. Moving Walsall Leather Museum. Revealed: the £86m Walsall Council cuts plan

Local authority bosses have now put out more than 80 proposals for public consultation, including plans to increase market fees but stop cleaning them, and scrapping grass cutting in some areas such as Delves Common.

A comprehensive list of cost-cutting ideas to save the council millions of pounds over four years also includes funding for adult weight management programmes being axed and plans to shut 15 libraries and scrap council funding to the New Art Gallery.

This is the first time a comprehensive list of saving ideas has been released.

For garden waste collection, the council plans to charge £30 per year, as well as a one-off charge of £18 for a new wheeled bin.

It is hoped this will provide the authority with £300,000 in the 2018/19 financial year.

Bosses also want green waste collection to stop on September 30 each year rather than October 30 – to save £30,000.

Parking permits could go up by £1 per month, with off street parking charges rising by 10p per band. If these two proposals go through then the council will generate an extra £21,000 in one year.

The relocation of Walsall Leather Museum and History Centre to the Central Library in Lichfield Street will save an estimated £360,000 over two years.

One of the biggest single savings will come from the proposed closure of 15 libraries, leaving just Walsall Central Library as a hub, with an estimated £2.9m of savings to come just from 2017/18.

Other reductions will come from the budget for children's services and adult social care. A saving of more than £2.2m has been earmarked through the reduction of the number of look after children and their associated costs.

Read the full council report here

Speaking about the proposals going to public consultation, Lee Jeavons, deputy council leader, said: "Last week Walsall Council announced the need for the council to make savings of £86m over the next four years, and yesterday we published the budget options that start us on that journey.

"The budget options, which if agreed at Cabinet next week will form the basis of our conversation, with service users, residents, partners and businesses across the borough.

Firstly, let me stress there has been no predetermination on where the cuts may finally fall – as we seek to find the savings required there will be choices, many of them tough and none of them easy. Yes, there are those who would suggest another way would be to simply raise council tax to bridge the funding gap, but as we know residents wouldn't stomach or afford council tax rises of 30 per cent – and those are the sort of figures it would take.

"We have no choice whether to take on this daunting task or not. Having looked at the figures and considered what has to be achieved we realise that this 'nettle has finally to be grasped'.

"No matter how unpleasant and challenging it may be; as the newly elected coalition administration we are now responsible for delivering the massive savings Walsall Council has to make. No matter how painful these decisions are to make, they have to be made.

"Undoubtedly, there will be many hurdles to overcome in arriving at the savings that need to be made. There will be critics, not everyone will be either supportive or even sympathetic, but the facts are unavoidable.

"This is why we are committed to engage directly with the users of our services to better understand what they need and to work diligently alongside them, and through these conversations turn as many negatives into positives as we can.

"Despite the inevitability that as a council we will be able to do less, our sights throughout this journey will remain on delivering excellence in what we do. Delivering less should not be confused with poor quality – quite the opposite."

Councillor Ian Shires, leader of the Liberal Democrats who run the authority in a coalition with the Labour group, added: "It's undeniable, public services are shrinking, since starting our 'cost reduction' journey in 2010, austerity measures have already reduced what the council can deliver by over 30 per cent.

"We strongly believe the more involved people are in shaping our services – by having a meaningful conversation with them, the more likely they will support and accept the changes to services that have to be made."

Under the plans council cricket pitches and bowling greens, such as those at Leamore Park and Palfrey Park, could be scrapped.

The proposals have been criticised by Darlaston Councillor Doug James.

He said: "We need to help people who have been left behind across Walsall. We need positive solutions.

"A legal balanced Budget is a fair and reasonable requirement but so many families are struggling."